Boning Up with Baudelaire & Tomlinson: AMM3 at the Blue Posts 15-xii-2011
Reverie concerning hair-root follicles and animal bristle-response experienced by Ben Watson during Sean Bonney's contribution to AMM3
At the Association of Musical Marxists we're convinced that what is holding back the left is timidity about applying revolutionary Marxism to everything around us. Identity politics and academia, those closely-related thought police, have infiltrated the very synapses of left thinking, leaving it crippled and ineffectual. Unfortuantely, this is actually how many of those on the left - long inured to the tragic antinomies of Kantian philosophy - would like it. But we don't!We believe that unabashed Marxism is a fantastic forum for the free encounter of developed personalities, and that it enables us to grapple anything - politics, linguistics, war, musicology, trombones, puns and infant contributions - with vim and relish. For us, the printed page is not the only arbiter of truth, since in British society accent is one of the most widely-acknowledged markers of class. Hence the presentation of this mix-down of recordings made at our last meeting (AMM3), a sound piece we call "Boning Up with Baudelaire & Tomlinson". Although we think it's impossible for middle-class accents to work in pop music, we're not accent fundamentalists, and we're aware how association and ambition tweak and refine (amd roughen) received pronunciations. We marvel at the way the accents of siblings who grew up in identical circumstances diverge according to the social stance of the speakers. Although - rather like talking about money - accent is somewhat of a taboo topic among "nice" people, we think it should be an occasion for celebration, humour and laughter. Our policy of derepressive sublimation aims to vanquish paranoia and defuse taboos. We thought the atmosphere and spontaneity at AMM3 were terrific, something rare and special, and we hope you think so too. Please come to the next one.
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