Hello Livejournal!
Wow, I haven't posted much here in a while. I've been all over facebook and tumblr and twitter for the past few months, some postyness and some voyeurism combine to give me a happy dose of social media. I've been social in the meat world, too, surprisingly enough, and that's been quite nice, but I'm tired now.
My favorite new toy is a tumblr I started, posting mostly photos of Brazilian musicians. It's called MPB, which is the abbreviation for Música Popular Brasileira. It's made me start thinking about the links between rock music/pop music/entertainment and photography both as art and journalism, but I haven't come to any interesting conclusions yet. One thing that sort of amazes me is all these brilliant people, and all these lovely photos, and hardly anybody outside Brazil knows about them (for some given value of "hardly anybody"). There are the usual suspects like Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and João Gilberto, who are all deservedly well-known, but then there are so many more who aren't when they should be.
I suppose we have the ghetto known as world music to thank for that, in some ways. The sheer volume of music produced and the language differences add to the barriers. And yet, the intertubes can break those down with a little searching and perseverance. And so I contribute to the raucousness in a small way, delivering bitty doses of what gives me pleasure.
I haven't been this interested in American music in years.
And now for something completely different that you might not think I'd like, but I really love:
My favorite new toy is a tumblr I started, posting mostly photos of Brazilian musicians. It's called MPB, which is the abbreviation for Música Popular Brasileira. It's made me start thinking about the links between rock music/pop music/entertainment and photography both as art and journalism, but I haven't come to any interesting conclusions yet. One thing that sort of amazes me is all these brilliant people, and all these lovely photos, and hardly anybody outside Brazil knows about them (for some given value of "hardly anybody"). There are the usual suspects like Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and João Gilberto, who are all deservedly well-known, but then there are so many more who aren't when they should be.
I suppose we have the ghetto known as world music to thank for that, in some ways. The sheer volume of music produced and the language differences add to the barriers. And yet, the intertubes can break those down with a little searching and perseverance. And so I contribute to the raucousness in a small way, delivering bitty doses of what gives me pleasure.
I haven't been this interested in American music in years.
And now for something completely different that you might not think I'd like, but I really love:
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