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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Nov 22, 2020 16:00:10 GMT
and this has been the year of largest sales of guitars in NAMMs 119 year history. Perhaps they had a 'buy one, get one FREE' offer. I went to NAMM to fight for your right to have a free guitar!
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Nov 22, 2020 16:10:12 GMT
www.guitarworld.com/news/fender-has-sold-more-guitars-in-2020-than-any-other-year-in-its-historyFender, for starters, is experiencing a record sales year, with FMIC chief executive Andy Mooney stating that 2020 “will be the biggest year of sales volume in Fender history, record days of double-digit growth, e-commerce sales and beginner gear sales.
“I never would have thought we would be where we are today if you asked me back in March," he said.
Instead, guitar sales have bounced back in a big way, with the Times reporting that "young adults and teenagers, many of them female, are helping to power this guitar revival, manufacturers and retailers said, putting their own generational stamp on the instrument that rocked their parents’ generation while also discovering the powers of six-string therapy.”
According to the article, Fender’s guitar-instruction app, Fender Play – which offered a number of free trials over the lockdown period – saw its user base increase from 930,000 from 150,000 between late March and late June, with close to 20 percent of the new users under 24, and 70 percent under 45.
Additionally, new female users increased from 30 percent before the pandemic to 45 percent.Fender now expects to post a record year in 2020, with $700 million. www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/the-ceo-of-guitar-icon-fender-says-the-company-was-looking-into-an-abyss-when-the-coronavirus-hit-but-now-the-company-expects-record-2020-sales/amp_articleshow/79345065.cms?utm_campaign=fullarticle&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=inshorts
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Post by tory on Nov 22, 2020 17:58:08 GMT
Culturally, the West has been in decline for decades. It's hard to argue against that fact - architecture, sculpture, painting, opera, poetry, most literature, most forms of music simply aren't reaching the same heights that they did previously.
Performance art is a new form that we could see a flowering of, but I can't really think of many aspects of culture that are better now than they were.
The ambiguity of myth and meaning before the rise of the rational era, guilds and patronage, lack of industrialisation were all factors that helped. I doubt there will ever be a Warner or a Michaelangelo again.
We might see art though in the future in a different way. It might be through coding, technology, systems and our relationship with it. I'm not saying art is dead, far from it, but that it will arise perhaps in unexpected ways.
Fundamentally, for me, our ability to reproduce anything as a facsimile has severed the connection we had previously with art.
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Post by daveythefatboy on Nov 22, 2020 18:25:26 GMT
The biggest change is the technology. The era in which the US seemed most culturally dominant was the early days of mass media. Most of that was a product of having very few people controlling communications technology with wide reach. So there was this sense of a truly universal culture - most of which was a product of the US.
Now it is all fractured and fragmented. It has gone back to the chaos before mass media - but with the additional chaos of random interconnectivity. Only a few things rise to be universal anymore. But you can have huge cultural movements happening amongst millions and have your neighbor completely unaware of their existence.
As in past eras, academics will select a few things to attribute significance to after the fact, and we’ll confer cultural meaning to them and forget the rest.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Nov 22, 2020 18:28:40 GMT
Performance art is a new form that we could see a flowering of, but I can't really think of many aspects of culture that are better now than they were. new? Fluxus, Theatre of the Living Arts, Schneeman, etc., even Laurie Anderson. I'm sure there are lots of technological possibilities nowadays, but the template has existed for a while now.
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Post by tory on Nov 22, 2020 18:30:12 GMT
New in the context of other established art forms.
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Post by oh oooh on Nov 22, 2020 18:39:35 GMT
850 million kids watching somebody from N. Korea jumping up and down 1500 times a minute going EEEE WOOOWWWW EEEE WOWWWWWW
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2020 19:52:34 GMT
The ambiguity of myth and meaning before the rise of the rational era, guilds and patronage, lack of industrialisation were all factors that helped. I doubt there will ever be a Warner or a Michaelangelo again. Fundamentally, for me, our ability to reproduce anything as a facsimile has severed the connection we had previously with art. Who's Warner? It sounds as if you're pining for some pre-industrial idealised notion of art. Given your love of various musical genres and film that are a direct product of industrialisation, I find this quite an odd position to take.
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Post by tory on Nov 22, 2020 20:01:10 GMT
Why is it odd?
Just because I love Kraftwerk and Rothko doesn't mean that I can't also take a position that, objectively, Beethoven and Da Vinci were superior artists.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2020 20:02:40 GMT
Why is it odd? Just because I love Kraftwerk and Rothko doesn't mean that I can't also take a position that, objectively, Beethoven and Da Vinci were superior artists. It sounds a Conservative pose to me. You can't "objectify" art in that way, particularly if you're comparing very different things hundreds of years apart.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2020 6:27:20 GMT
I still don't know who Warner is ( jack Warner would make no sense at all)!
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Post by cousinlou on Nov 23, 2020 8:09:41 GMT
You can't "objectify" art in that way, particularly if you're comparing very different things hundreds of years apart. Not when they are closer to each other either. There are several things you can say about music ( 'derivative', 'complicated', 'Original', 'lots of notes' , and so on) but there is no set of such classifiers that naturally leads to it being better than something else.
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Post by tory on Nov 23, 2020 8:12:04 GMT
Wagner. Phone autocorrect.
I think you can say something is objectively better than something else, but appreciate that the context of different centuries introduces different variables that complicate matters further.
I'd argue that if you went to a Cathedral in the 18th century and heard, say, Bach, your mind would be blown - it would be a cosmic experience unlike anything you'd ever heard. Firstly, to hear orchestral music and also to be in a Cathedral itself would be a phenomenal experience.
We are desensitised to the power of art in many respects because we have access to it so easily. In the internet era you can summon up anything and view it, watch it, know everything about it in a short period of time. We can dismiss it or pay little or no heed to it because it exists in a particular dimension of access that is unlike anything we've had before. The power of transcendence with that surely declines - although I'd say that music, literature and poetry can still deliver that because of the medium.
Leisure and time now provide more powerful things than "transcendence" because well, they are enjoyable.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 23, 2020 8:13:34 GMT
I still don't know who Warner is ( jack Warner would make no sense at all)! Bob WARNER! English composer! Diamond geezer! (I think Toby meant WaGner?)
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 23, 2020 8:20:37 GMT
is there GREAT art? Is Wagner better than the Beatles? Was Michelangelo superior to Damian Hirst?
was does great art do to people? How do you measure it? The impact on the listener?
There is a whole other realm of feeling that some art, like Wagner, provides. It is different but it's very definitely a thing. I know because I've felt it, I've experienced it.
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