Posts by Robbie Siataga
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Sigh. There were indeed women both composing and performing, all the way through, and it's not their fault that most of us haven't heard of them.
Good lookin out Jolisa. I humbly stand corrected.
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You've confused cultural capital and multiculturalism.
Probably. In this instance, i was thinking in terms of accruing non material wealth from diverse ethnic/cultural backgrounds in the form of music, which then adds value and influences the wider mainstream culture.
not the same thing ?
complaining about the lack of Chinese artists performing Delta Blues in the 30's. And even that's assuming that your definition of 'Hispanic' doesn't, like, include Spain.
fair cop, my bad...i'm tempted to look for some japanese hillbilly stuff now ?
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heh...and no gargling. Thats just showing off.
but you're saying 60 years of the music of one end of one country has as much "cultural capital" as 600 years of the music of the entire western hemisphere?
Actually no. I'd say C&W has more just cos of Charlie Pride, Freddie Fender and the Dixie Chicks and what the hell, Keith Urban just cos he's an NZer.
Where as in the whole 600 years of the western hemisphere as defined by classsical music. There weren't, if any, women, blacks, hispanics and certainly no Kiwi's in its probably first 500 years.
Besides we're in the southern hemisphere and some of us don't take to kindly to them northern/western suns of beaches on cultural issues.
But that's beside the point. Its a question of relevence in the modern world. The concert program has had a good run, the music has had it's day in the sun, it lived a good life, let it die with dignity :)
I'm all for hiphop but if it were in the same case i would have put it to sleep decades ago.
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"Nothing is perfect
In the space where nothing exists
will one find perfection
The perfect nothingAccept nothing as fact
Question everything
Determine your own truth
Define your own realityBE YOUR OWN MESSIAH..."
ahhh yes... words to live by
My review meeting is in an hour, how do you get Creative NZ Funding again?
swallow...don't spit :)
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Stop trolling here and start lobbying NZoA for your niche, it may be a better use of your valuable time. :-)
trolling my tattoed blue arse and No, once bitten twice shy :)
Good points otherwise, however its not like there is a viable net based alternative for the delivery and quantifiable benefits of a good walk in a national park. Fuck knows if there were i wouldn't be getting soft in the gut.
Sure, pay taxes to avoid tolls and for a free health service everyone will use at some stage but let's draw the line somewhere.
What if it was a country and western music station we were subsidising ? That has just as much cultural capital as classical and would you defend that if you weren't so much into C&W ? Honestly, i'd feel the same way about any genre based public funded radio.
In this case, pay for what you like and repriortise the savings into hospitals or whatever other better cause needs subsidising.
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I am not your monkey.
but you do expect me to grind your organ for you so you can have your wee dance in public.
But, hey, I guess the Maoists did have the coolest uniforms.
gestapo ones were better and its not like i buy into some hard left right march to the tune of an idealogues drum.
it's issue by issue, case by case, point by point, note by note to which my tune can be changed.
The differences are just about which art, and how much funding.
...and the suspect decisions of those who call the shots with no critical feedback as to the relative merits of one form over the other. It's just all too subjective on their part with no accountability or transparency.
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Don Brash would be so proud! And to think I'm not allowed to use the word "neoliberal".
C'mon bro you can do better that that ! make a case why i should subsidise classical music at the expense of other forms and i won't mind ?
FWIW i loves me the eurocentic piano. it usually adds value :)
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your taste in music does get funded by my taxes, to the tune of $5.6m annually plus chunks of the radio and TV budgets.
how so ? i dont listen to radio at all and rarely watch music TV, but when i do i've yet to see a dubstep music vid or NZoA/CNZ funding towards contemporary instrumental electronic music ?
we all know a blind eye is turned towards electronica sans vox unless it's some experimental avant garde high art wank by a mate of some funding assessor.
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Whatever i owe it, i've paid back in spades but why should i keep paying for something i dont use or like ? If you like it and use it then you pay for it. Do a whip round at the office. Start a paypal donation site, get out on the streets with a bucket.
These are tough times and it's all about living within your means innit ? If RNZ cant do that then maybe they should drop the net based aspect or drop the radio aspect or cut staff or reduce wages or time on air or move to cheaper digs or whatever.
I dont think they're particularly hard done by or that its as valuable a service as it used to be in this day and age.
haha...yeah Russell, I remember as a kid when the license person used to come around asking if we had a TV and why we hadn't paid the fee ?
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Bye.
just dont forget to take your ass i handed back to you in shreds.
kthnx