“The trouble with music is that we’re in trouble without it; not only are musicians screwed by a visciously exploitative industry, not only are gross injustices done when entire musical legacies are expropriated to be sold like trinkets to tourists; most important is to recognise that without a deep, living connection between people and music there can be no community. Without a love and respect shared by musicians and audiences alike for this wondrous human activity, we are lost.” p.XXIV
This book published in 2005 by AK Press has only just come to my attention. Broadly it gives what could be a theoretical background to Agit disco, at least from his very widely read point of view.
One difference might be on his Tolstoyan view of culture as that which creates community. I view culture from the Raymond Williams view (1958) as elaborated some time later: Read More »
Stefan Szczelkun's Agit Disco noticeboard 