Tag Archives: Culture

Whatever Art Is

John Lennon fought against the mental comradery of intellectualism, especially in a time period where the political climate made it fashionable. He loved rock & roll, because it felt primitive as an art form, even though the sound was continuously … Continue reading

The Ideal Bar

In Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, the character Dean Morarty (Neal Cassady) claims: The ideal bar doesn’t exist in America. An ideal bar is something that’s gone beyond our ken. In nineteen-ten a bar was a place where men went … Continue reading

A High Culture Manifesto

Does music have less cultural meaning than it did 30 – 40 years ago? It seems what used to be voices of political protest, power movements and organized unity transformed into a low-culture melting pot of digitization and radio capitalism. … Continue reading