Sounds interesting… It’s a nice reminder that the superstars who most of us think about when we think of the music industry (the big rock stars) are just a tiny fraction of the entire industry. The vast majority of people in the entertainment industries in general are, in fact, working schmoes with little security in exchange for their labor. I’ve argued that what was critical about punk was less the influence on genre, but how punks talked about music as a form of labor and how they brought into the public eye these kinds of discussions about how music is made…
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