Carl’s Rock Songbook #16: Rock’s “Leftism”

by Carl Scott

Rock intellectualizing’s third basic flaw is its captivity to bohemian/New Left assumptions regarding morals, culture, and politics. The Songbook will examine rock’s largely uncritical promotion of the sexual revolution as it unfolds, but here we consider the oddity of its leftism. On one . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Aug 2011

Carl’s Rock Songbook #14: Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock n’ Roll Grad School

by Carl Scott

. . . the rock and roll apparatus affectively organizes the everyday life of its fans by differentially cathecting the various fragments it “excorporates” along these three axes. . . . It involves vectors (quantities having both magnitude and direction) that are removed from the hegemonic . . . . Continue Reading »

16 Aug 2011