{"id":3022,"date":"2011-06-14T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/06\/14\/wilderness-of-mirrors\/"},"modified":"2011-06-14T08:18:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:18:12","slug":"wilderness-of-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/06\/14\/wilderness-of-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilderness of mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSimon Reynolds <a href=\"http:\/\/blissout.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/its-been-pointed-out-that-ive-not-done_25.html\">reviews an Indonesian rock anthology<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nanother example of the trend of reissue labels moving into the pasts of foreign countries and finding there a kind of narcissistic mirror image of Western pop and rock, a mirror-image that&#8217;s slightly askew. but only very slightly. so <i>Those Shocking, Shaking Days<\/i> is really hot, fiercely played early 70s hard &#8216;n&#8217; heavy rock with a bluesy groove funk energy (the kind of stuff Woebot might dice into chunklets for recycling) but betrays zero traces of gamelan or much else Indonesian&#8230; so it&#8217;s like we&#8217;re going abroad but all we&#8217;re discovering is another facet of ourselves, our own cultural hegemony&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWhich is sorta-kinda another example of <a href=\"\/wissewords2\/2011\/06\/13\/fake-syrian-lesbian-turned-out-to-be-a-real-american-douche\/\">what I was getting at<\/a> yesterday. This isn&#8217;t quite cultural appropriation because nothing of the other culture is taken; it&#8217;s just feedback from our own cultural imperialism. Importing this feedback just reinforces our own cultural narcissism without engaging with the people behind the product we&#8217;re consuming or the cultural context in which they operated. It&#8217;s still all about us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Reynolds reviews an Indonesian rock anthology: another example of the trend of reissue labels moving into the pasts of foreign countries and finding there a kind of narcissistic mirror image of Western pop and rock, a mirror-image that&#8217;s slightly askew. but only very slightly. so Those Shocking, Shaking Days is really hot, fiercely played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,367,3,745],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-imperialism","category-life-under-capitalism","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}