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1316: Music's future on repeat / Rich Woodall

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🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Writer Rich Woodall on the financialization of music catalogues and his article "Mass Hipgnosis" for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/latest/mass-hipgnosis-woodall

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

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Oh, Oh, oh, Oh, oh,

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Oh, oh,

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Yeah. Thank you.

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now. now. This. This is hell.

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Hell.

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Live from the United States where capitalism is the virus.

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This is hell.

0:46.5

Music is an unique expression of human emotion

0:52.0

accompanied by harmony, melody, rhythm, music strives to be an artistic

0:56.1

form of beauty capable of sharing a feeling, a feeling you can only feel through music.

1:01.0

Whether it's religious or revolutionary, reverential or radical, music can communicate

1:05.3

our deepest sentiments from unquestioning love to yes, even violent hatred.

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Music is a cultural universal that plays a key role in what is the

1:15.2

human condition and essential of human existence. Music is art, but music during our

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current state of capitalism has become something else.

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Music is a business that has become an industry,

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but now that music industry has taken songs to another level,

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to the level of commodification.

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Now every song is run as if it is its own business.

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