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so let's see...if i restrict myself to stuff that i happen to like and wonder what it'd be like if my preferences were mainstream preferences---i dont know about this---and i have had this conversation quite a few times with folk who do stuff that is "underground" or "experimental" about the extent to which what they do and how they do it presupposes a dull mainstream culture and so understands itself as oppositional.
what i would definitely change is: there would be extensive state funding for the arts and that money would come out of the grotesquely bloated levels of military technology expenditures that presently grease the wheels of republican military keynesianism. i'd like to imagine this as a fairly ecumenical affair in terms of who'd get it--but it should be easier for people to make a living in the arts and not have to rely on the lameness of pop or--worse--country distribution systems or the lameness of the gallery system or any other form of activity that presupposes that markets are in any way rational.
they arent.
i would abolish clear channel and make it much easier for local broadcast radio. that's a good idea and doesnt require that the world be as i might like it to still be a good idea.
i dont like television, but figure it gives people direction in terms of telling them what they want, and that without it there'd be Ambiguity at the level of desire and i am not sure americans are ready for that. so i have no recommendations. i just dont like television.
beyond that, folk should do as they like.
it doesnt matter whether they find what interests me to be interesting or if i find what interests them to be interesting.
i'm just glad that the folk who imagine themselves banning forms of music they dont like have no power.
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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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