RTP-area local music and culture

[Nathaniel Florin <npflorin AT yahoo.com>]

My long-term memory is that a lot of us said our
goodbyes to Stay Free when Carrie moved away in 1995.
I think a trip through the archives will show that
that was pretty much the shared opinion. Certainly the
New York-based Stay Free had a continuity with the
NC-based one, but it also had a closer focus and
wasn't really tied to the Old North State by anything
other than genealogy. The old version dealt with the
larger world but was also intensely local; the later
one was not.

So, to me, mourning it wouldn't be hugely different
than mourning the apparent-though-denied demise of the
Baffler, in the category of publications I admire and
often enjoy but that don't connect with me viscerally.
Or, a different way would be to compare post-1995 Stay
Free to the careers of Ryan Adams or Ben Folds. It's a
point of interest, there are people with personal
ties, but it's no longer *local* in any real sense.

But then again neither am I, so what the hell do I
know?

Nate

--- igou AT unc.edu wrote:
> 
> and thanks to you, ross, for this eulogy.
> 
> the lack of response to your post underscores the
> loss of long-term memory 
> in our culture, engineered for the corporate
> necessity of a novelty-seeking 
> and "forward looking" populace.
> 
> things, i think, carrie always fought against.
> 
> though, when i think back, wasn't stay free!
> originally a publication that 
> carrie began when she was working as a college rep
> for sony or some other 
> label?
> 
> ah, well. the question really is, does corporate
> corruption corrupt us all 
> completely, or do we all spin it all, somehow, of
> our own will? and, in 
> the end, after nietzsche, what does genealogy
> matter, anyway? 
> 
> -r and don't forget "sony free" too i
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