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simon silverdollar
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there's obviously a lack of proper grime raves at the moment, and has been for at least a year. now, it seems that the only places that grime artists get to play is more middle class, studenty nights- stuff at 333, 93 ft east, the aborted vice-pub grime project- even FWD is pretty studenty and bourgeois (especially since me and friends have started going, ha!).
something that simon reynolds mentioned about drum n bass- how the massive is now largely students, and how that's changed the music- got me thinking: will the fact that the live audience for grime is now becoming much more middle class and studenty change the music, as producers, consciously or otherwise, change the music to get a bigger response on the bourgeois dancefloor?
i guess it really depends on how important the live context is to the production of the music- with grime not being 'dance music' per se, the changing demographic of the dancefloor might not matter too much.
anyway, something to think about. and something worrying for self-hating bourgeois persons like myself...
something that simon reynolds mentioned about drum n bass- how the massive is now largely students, and how that's changed the music- got me thinking: will the fact that the live audience for grime is now becoming much more middle class and studenty change the music, as producers, consciously or otherwise, change the music to get a bigger response on the bourgeois dancefloor?
i guess it really depends on how important the live context is to the production of the music- with grime not being 'dance music' per se, the changing demographic of the dancefloor might not matter too much.
anyway, something to think about. and something worrying for self-hating bourgeois persons like myself...