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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface: Proximity Bias and the Irrationality of Fear
Introduction: Learning Through Failure
Section I: The Value of Democratizing Voices
1. We Aren’t the World: All Music Is “Local Music”
2. The Fixation to Fixate
3. Message Monopolization
Field Recording Chronicle: Malawi
4. The Real King(s) of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Field Recording Chronicle: Malawi
5. Unlabelling Labels
Field Recording Chronicle: Rwanda
6. Regressive Superlatives: The “G”-Word . . . and Other Demons
Field Recording Chronicle: Zomba Prison
7. Winning Hearts, Not Breaking Backs: All We Are Saying Is Give Art a Chance
Section II: A Call for a Return to Naturalism: The Need for Randomness
8. Building an Arc
9. Everything, Including the Kitchen Sink
10. The Primordial “Social Work”: Why Music Heals
Field Recording Chronicle: Vietnam
11. Consumerism Masquerading as Creativity
Field Recording Chronicle: Palestine
12. Parallel Rituals: The Insularity of Technological “Advances”
13. Sound Before Volume
Field Recording Chronicle: South Sudan
14. Recording as a Leap of Faith
Section III: How To Get “There”: Some Possible Roads Home
15. Surrendering to Sound
16. Voices Within the Voice
17. Using the Microphone as a Telescope
Field Recording Chronicle: Juba Orphanage
18. Acoustic Illumination
19. What’s “Left”?
20. Element(s) of Surprise
Field Recording Chronicle: Taranta
21. Cooked by Culture: Ever Beware the “Experts”
22. What Can’t Be Owned?
Section IV: Products of Our Environment
23. Making Sense of the First Sense
24. S-urr-ounded: The Inescapable Symphonies of Our Everyday Life
Field Recording Chronicle: Cambodia
25. Disposable Music
26. Inter-Specific Artistry: “I Am Not an Animal!”
27. Aural Culture: Music Not As Math, but Individuation
28. Moving Targets: There Is No “There” There
29. Do You Hear What I Hear?
30. Playing for Keeps: There Is No Rehearsal
Field Recording Chronicle: Acholi Machon
31. The Ricochet of Influence
Section V: Backin’ Up for Some Backstory
32. Transparency: Letting Your Real “Roots” Show
33. Drawing Random Inspiration from the Inspired: Liberating Influence from the Ghetto of Sanctioned Outlets
34. Who’s the Boss?
35. The Road from No-Name-Ville
36. Premature and Promiscuous Championing
37. Pain Dues, Dude
38. Amateur Hour: “Real Musicians Have Day Jobs”
39. Bittersweet Dreams
Section VI: Beware the Traps
40. Living in the Moment, But Keeping an Eye on the Horizon
41. Sonic Prisons: Getting Off the Grid
42. Personalities Displacing Spirituality
Field Recording Chronicle: Transylvania
43. Self-Sabotage and the Unconscious: Subjectivity’s Quicksand
44. The School of Soft Knocks
45. Hearing Lost 211
46. “Free” Samples?
Section VII: Welcoming Magic: Heeding Wanderlust’s Call
47. Following Existing Currents
48. Put Up, Don’t Shut Up
49. Beneath the Words
50. Breaking Patterns: Creating Creativity
51. It’s All in the Details
52. Connectivity Through Sonics
53. Say It Loud, Say It Proud
54. Castaway
55. If You’re Not Having Fun, You’re Not Fooling Anyone
56. Home Base
Section VIII: How Not to Memorialize Music
57. A Few “Don’t” Champions from My Past
58. Some Notes From the “Do” Files
Section IX: Enlisting Limitations as Expressive Partners
59. Trained by Fire, On the Chopping Block
60. What Do You Know?
61. Imperfect Pitch: There Are No Mistakes
62. Gauging the Atmosphere
Section X: Racing Racism
63. Free for All?
64. Same Old, Same Old: Colonialism’s Leftovers
65. You Call That Equality? Distracted by the Decoys
66. Stangered: Disproportionate Estimations (On the Outside, Looking Out)
67. Single Origin Fairy Tales
68. Disgraceful by Association
69. Outlaw Camouflage: Slumming in the “Underground”
70. Are You Seriously “Serious”!?
71. Music Cannot Be Possessed, But It Can Possess
72. False Friends: Raw Does Not Always Equal Real
73. Thinly Veiled Bigotry (The Patrimony Dies Hard)
Section XI: The Battle for Democracy in the Arts
74. How Music Dies
75. Cheapshot
76. A World of “Superstars,” Minus an Audience
77. The Myth of Purity
78. In Their Owned Words
79. Wire-Monkey Music
80. Organically Grown: Truth in Advertising
81. Every Man for Himself?
82. Too Much “Like,” Not Enough Love
83. The Talking Dead: Rest in Pieces 343
84. Oversharing
Section XII: How Music Dies: $$ and Its Wake
85. If You Can’t Beat ’em, Get Them to Join You
86. Now You Don’t See It (and Now You Still Don’t)
87. Image Cannibalism: The Media as a Gigantic Mirror of Infatuation
88. Manufactured Competition: Don’t Believe the Hype
89. Sin-ergy
90. Don’t Believe Half of What You See
91. Fabricated Identity: Bands as Brands 363
92. Sub-merged Substitutions
93. The Superscar System
94. Standardized Forms, Fear of the Random: Living in Boxes, atop Grids
Section XIII: Odds and Endings: They Couldn’t Keep Doing It Without All of the “Little People”
95. Souls Sold for Convenience
96. Corruption and Arrested Growth
97. Who Are You Calling Crazy?: The Romanticization of Mental Illness
98. Records Don’t Kill People, People Kill People
99. Open Season
100. Conditional Love
101. The Collective Jukebox Is Stuck: One World, One Store
102. “Forever” Is a Very, Very Long Time
103. Guilty as Charged
Conclusion: The Earth Is an Echo
Epilogue: Open Ears, Open Mind
Overview
About the Author
Index
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