ranting about the slow, painful death in nationally homogenized radio is rather repetitive at this point. clear channel and their ilk (much the way cable TV and MTV in particular) have served to erase the idea of regions. pirate and college radio are those last bastions of unique voices in the gloom. how much mind numbing banter from djs with no accents do i have to put up with to hear a decent song? too much.
anything with far reaching, global aspects (the internet, for example) is going to have homogenizing effects, but the goal would be to bring people together while maintaining individuality.
what fun is it if my students wear the same clothes, use the same slang, listen to the same songs, follow the same fads as the kids in california? if anything, it's a herd mentality. "what's on TRL? what's on 106 & Park?" not "what's going on down the street? what's in my local independent record store?"
can regional stores even survive? omnipresent mega-corporations are setting up shop on every corner. faceless magnates and uniform workers. where's the regionality?
this is sort of an ill focused mind map, but can anyone tell me what regions mean anymore? where do they matter?
posted by J. Neas |
5/18/2005 11:41:00 PM
ironically this deregionalisation may help erase the hypocracy and ethnic bigotry we experience from the walking dead who can't seem to live with diversity
: 9:05 AM, June 07, 2005
