In a Times Literary Supplement book review (March 12, 2010), P. J. Carnehan writes of Garth Cartwright taking the measure of today’s music:
Towards the end of More Miles than Money, Garth Cartwright acknowledges that every art form has its era; in the case of American popular music, this era has come to an end: “Since the 1970s an increasingly corporate music industry . . . has reaped huge profits from peddling endless pap. American music, once so regional and creative and strong and proud, is reduced to just another franchise: McMusic.”
Instead of untamed originality, popular music now offers “heavy-metal crybabies, moronic rappers, over-emoting R & B divas, freeze-dried country singers, scholarly jazzers, indie-rock entropy.”
For a brief biography of Garth Cartwright, click here. For information about Garth Cartwright’s book, More Miles than Money, click here.
Towards the end of More Miles than Money, Garth Cartwright acknowledges that every art form has its era; in the case of American popular music, this era has come to an end: “Since the 1970s an increasingly corporate music industry . . . has reaped huge profits from peddling endless pap. American music, once so regional and creative and strong and proud, is reduced to just another franchise: McMusic.”
Instead of untamed originality, popular music now offers “heavy-metal crybabies, moronic rappers, over-emoting R & B divas, freeze-dried country singers, scholarly jazzers, indie-rock entropy.”
For a brief biography of Garth Cartwright, click here. For information about Garth Cartwright’s book, More Miles than Money, click here.
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