Some mild tech nostalgia

We ended up digging out our old boom box because we wanted art reference for audio cassettes - fortunately, it happened to have one in it - and we're having a little bit of fun playing with it again. We don't usually listen to music in the space around us rather than through headphones, and the last time we listened to a radio station, we were connecting to their Internet stream.

Also, thanks to the aforementioned cassette, we discovered that Los Lobos has a lot more variety of music than we were previously cognizant of. Also that roots rock is a thing.

A few thoughts on "Musicking" and musicking

We realized partway through our reading of Musicking: the meanings of performing and listening by Christopher Small that we no longer expected the reading of the book to be an event we appreciated - we expected it to be an obligation. So we halted there. We'll talk more about the book at the end.

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We found out about Christopher Small and the book (and word) "Musicking" through the YouTube videos of Adam Neely, and were prompted to read it specifically from its reference in Neely's video about hating CCM - Contemporary Christian Music - but trying to like it. It clearly left a strong and lasting impression on Neely, and for good reason: as a musician and especially as a working jazz musician, a musician in a heavily improvisational style of music seeking to make an income out of performance, the importance of music as an entire event is inescapable. And though we don't love the book and didn't finish it, this perspective was enriching to us as well.