tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post858031055711544564..comments2024-03-15T20:32:39.815+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: The battle against the blandUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-26763098517162484142009-09-04T15:00:17.584+01:002009-09-04T15:00:17.584+01:00David, I think the politics of this blog are prett...David, I think the politics of this blog are pretty well unclassifiable. So it fascinates me to find <i>OAOP</i> linked from this Lib Dem blog - <br /><br />http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Perhaps they have answered a question I can't answer.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-76028724216702319182009-09-04T14:12:56.526+01:002009-09-04T14:12:56.526+01:00The battle against the bland and against 'one ...<i>The battle against the bland and against 'one size fits all' culture continues. This email has just been received from Holland:</i><br /><br />Hello Bob,<br /><br />The Alternative Dutch classical music station "de Concertzender" is under attack again...<br />Although there was a promise from Dutch minister Ronald Plasterk to support the station,<br />this promise was broken and the Concertzender has to stop it broadcasts on radio and internet.<br />1st of November... for anyone who knows this station, it would be a terrible loss if this would happen.<br /><br />http://www.concertzender.nl/?language=en<br /><br />Well, time to take action again!!!<br />Please let the Dutch government know that the decision to stop the Concertzender is wrong<br />and unnecessary. Don't let the voice of this innovative station be shut down...<br /><br />You can support the Concertzender by:<br /><br />Become a member of the Facebook support group:<br />http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=121297152739<br /><br />Become a member of the LinkedIn support group:<br />http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2131037&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr<br /><br />Send an e-mail with your support for this station<br />concert.post@concertzender.nl<br /><br />I hope you will help the Concertzender in their fight for survival,<br />they deserve it!!!<br /><br />Rolf den Otter<br /><br /><i>See also -</i><br /><br />http://www.overgrownpath.com/2008/11/classical-music-community-1-philistines.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-67286054623878286042009-09-04T13:55:35.517+01:002009-09-04T13:55:35.517+01:00Not at all surprised you say this, and I agree, bu...Not at all surprised you say this, and I agree, but I suppose the answer is: things are complicated and people are not one thing. His BAT work is seedy. Something smells with some of his writing on Islam. But not with all of it. A lot of what he writes in his Modern Culture you would have to agree with. Or at least, I think you would. I suppose Terry Eagleton is an inexact English equivalent on the left. For anyone curious and reading this, I would probably recommend Scruton's Modern Culture. He's wonderful on VW in the England book. And also on Britten. I quoted a Scuton email to me in a post I wrote on Elgar: http://davidderrick.wordpress.com/2007/06/02/edward-elgar-june-2-1857-%E2%80%93/<br /><br />Sorry if you're getting comments more than once: I'm getting strange Java messages!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-37271542493929319522009-09-04T13:37:56.031+01:002009-09-04T13:37:56.031+01:00David, I find some of Roger Scruton's writing ...David, I find some of Roger Scruton's writing on current affairs interesting. <br /><br />But even if I didn't feel uncomfortable with his sometimes Right-leaning views and his strong opposition to the ban on fox hunting, his involvement as a lobbying consultant for Japan Tobacco International means I am definitely against rather than for.<br /><br />All of which, for me, rather overshadows his writing on music and composing.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_ScrutonPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-44409195750638497352009-09-04T13:21:30.060+01:002009-09-04T13:21:30.060+01:00Are you a Roger Scruton fan? I'm not entirely,...Are you a Roger Scruton fan? I'm not entirely, but he has interesting things to say about all this. He wrote a book called Elegy for England. He's a conservative-minded philosopher. Ie a trained, proper philosopher. Happy to recommend titles by email if you don't know him. You probably do. Recommendations might not include the Elegy book. He is also an very interesting writer on music.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-52241783940757816452009-09-04T13:16:45.781+01:002009-09-04T13:16:45.781+01:00Are you a Roger Scruton fan? I'm not entirely,...Are you a Roger Scruton fan? I'm not entirely, but he has interesting things to say about all this. He wrote a book called Elegy for England. He's a conservative-minded philosopher. Ie a trained, proper philosopher. Happy to recommend titles by email if you don't know him. You probably do. Recommendations might not include the Elegy book. He is also an very interesting writer on music.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1730124629146664652009-09-04T07:19:54.396+01:002009-09-04T07:19:54.396+01:00David, it is well worth reading the book. It is no...David, it is well worth reading the book. It is not actually a lament for rural England. Much of it is about the scandalous redevelopment (i.e. destruction) of city centres such as Liverpool.<br /><br />The book is a castigation of how the corporate has replaced the individual, and, most importantly, how the concept of 'one size fits all' is being extended from the physical environment (chain stores and restaurants) to the cultural environment.<br /><br />Paul Kingsnorth also makes the point that 'deculturing' is more pronounced in the UK and US than in mainland Europe. In France, for instance, farmers go out and bulldoze new branches of McDonalds. In England, when people dare speak out about it, they are dismissed as being hopeless nostalgics.<br /><br />One evening, no one hour, spent trying to watch today's UK television is proof to me that "hopeless nostalgia" may not be such a bad thing.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-34942096476803452442009-09-04T00:02:15.532+01:002009-09-04T00:02:15.532+01:00Bob
Don't you find that these laments for Eng...Bob<br /><br />Don't you find that these laments for England always cling to a rather fixed idea of what rural England should be like and always mention the same things -- rural post offices etc?<br /><br />He talk about "the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall". <br /><br />What traditional industry? Nearly all of them (if the phrase means vaguely what I think he means) disappeared 100 or 150 years ago and we are more likely now to read about their forced revival.<br /><br />He talks to "fruit-growers, lock-keepers, stall-owners". Why not to people doing modern things who live in what used to be called the country? The reference to Chinatown sounds interesting. Perhaps I should read the book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-17869615495955791012009-09-01T16:29:37.790+01:002009-09-01T16:29:37.790+01:00Paul Kingsnorth has contributed the following extr...Paul Kingsnorth has contributed the following extract from a poem by Robinson Jeffers, plus a link:<br /><br /><i>‘The beauty of modern<br /><br />Man is not in the persons but in the<br /><br />Disastrous rhythm, the heavy and mobile masses, the dance of the<br /><br />Dream-led masses down the dark mountain.’</i><br /><br />www.dark-mountain.netPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com