Rav Casley Gera's Blog » Rav Idly Wonders http://casleygera.com/blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:04:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en http://casleygera.com/blog/2008/09/29/749/ http://casleygera.com/blog/2008/09/29/749/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:48:48 +0000 Rav Casley Gera http://casleygera.com/blog/2008/09/29/749/ Genre trends in music - synth pop in the 80s, guitar rock and dance in the 90s - are as much about what the record companies promote as what people want to play. If the internet breaks their control, will the wave of fad after fad - already going at absurd speed, with genres lasting a year or two at most - break down completely?

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]]> http://casleygera.com/blog/2008/09/29/749/feed/ http://casleygera.com/blog/2008/04/20/183/ http://casleygera.com/blog/2008/04/20/183/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:18:01 +0000 Rav Casley Gera http://casleygera.com/blog/2008/04/20/183/ American cinema’s creative zenith was reached in the 1970s, just as movies were being displaced by TV. Now we have a golden age of American TV drama, just as TV is under threat of being completely displaced by the internet. Was it always thus? Are we doomed to see the economic models of great art forms disrupted, just as they have reconciled their artistic and commercial imperatives?

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]]> http://casleygera.com/blog/2008/04/20/183/feed/ http://casleygera.com/blog/2007/12/07/44/ http://casleygera.com/blog/2007/12/07/44/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:09:00 +0000 Rav Casley Gera http://casleygera.com/blog/?p=44 Is the fact that Britain still enthusiastically labels its greatest cultural export of the 20th Century with the dismissive name “the Fab Four” (a) a sign of our refreshing unpretentiousness or (b) a depressing relic of the shallowly commercial working-class-showbiz culture from which the Beatles miraculously sprang?

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