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Rave Inc.

Groot-Brittannië heeft vorig weekend opnieuw kennisgemaakt met het verdwenen geachte fenomeen van de illegale raves. Volgens columnist Alex Petridis van The Guardian komt dat doordat de wereld van de muziek tegenwoordig te veel wordt aangestuurd door marketeers.

,,Anyone looking for a reason why the rave scene is picking up popularity again might consider that rock and pop music has never been more in thrall to corporate sponsorship or more willing to license music to advertisers, has never seemed more unrepentantly venal than it does today. Veterans of an era when the Clash refused to appear on Top of the Pops and "selling out" was an endlessly debated topic might be shocked by today's climate, in which any artist who refuses to "play the game" is met with the kind of spluttering disbelief that greeted Gnarls Barkley's refusal to license their music to a McDonald's campaign: "Perhaps they prefer Burger King," sneered one US magazine.''

Sam Delbeke op 30 augustus 2006 om 20:17 | Link