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i am not sure i understand the claim being made about any particular pop band in this context. what does it mean to "change music"? is music one thing? is thre somekind of zeitgeist idea underneath it?
i think the development of magnetic tape changed most music. folk still havent quite caught up with what it means, for example in scoring (now just an option--if repetition is the function of scores, the tape does it better), on performance (why bother to tour as a copy of yourself if people can just play the recordings over and over?) etc.
radio too---cant really imagine contemporary music, with all the genre blurring that goes on within it, without radio having made such blurring not only possible but ordinary.
but maybe i am too old to be able to imagine a band like the deftones changing anything--this despite the fact i still really quite like "shut up and drive"....
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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