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  • From: Duncan Murrell <dvmurrell AT nc.rr.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: On Durham and identity
  • Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 11:42:34 -0400

Yeah, you're right -- I saw that sentence and saw red, but Shayne makes the distinction clear later in the message.

Still, during all of my years of listening to y'all talk about building a musical and artistic community in various forms and in various towns, it's occasionally occurred to me that it takes an awful lot of energy and brainspace that might otherwise be spent writing and practicing, and that viable artistic scenes seem to more often arise around obsessives and cranks who make great art, who tend to be jealous of their time, and who would have no problem discovering influences and inspiration if they found themselves living at the bottom of a well. I suppose I'm proposing a chicken or egg problem with no answer; I just happen to follow the cranks and hermits more closely than the ebb and flow of the scene.

d


On Apr 5, 2007, at 10:54 AM, grady wrote:

Fascist!

I don't really think Shayne was talking about artistic decisions,
although it is interesting how he's managed to incorporate singing saw &
trombone into his otherwise pretty much acoustic pop-punk band . . .
throwing a bone to the homies, eh?

I spent the first X years trying to defend the word "scene" as being
what you make of it, or at least being no worse than any other word, but
at some point it seemed better & more natural to use the word
"community," so c'mon, let's use it instead, until Duncan vomits & moves
to New Orleans, where it's literally every band for themselves.

Duncan Murrell wrote:
That might be good for the scene, but it sounds bad for art.

The word itself, "scene," is starting to make me queasy.

d


I could be wrong,
but I think that one of the differences between the music scene in
Durham and, say, Chapel Hill is that when a musician in Durham goes
through the cost/benefit decision of any given action, they take into
account not only what is good for their band but what is good for the
music scene itself.

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