"Every Home Is Wired": 2 -- Endnotes

If you followed a link from the thesis text, the yellow arrows will lead you back to the bite you came from.

13	"Asia's bland, pop-radio friendly subject matter ... signalled that for the post-hippie extension of the counterculture ... the idealistic impulses of the 1960s has finally run their course. The dream -- or the illusion, if you will -- of individual and global enlightenment was over" (Macan 189).
14	Punk's entire attitude, valuing musical dilettantism and intentional ugliness, was diametrically opposed to that of Progressive Rock. "Punk rock delivered a deathblow to the series of assumptions which had sustained" the counterculture, Macan writes (180) -- to add insult to injury, Prog bands were now derided as musical dinosaurs.
15	Drummer Bill Bruford has described how the industrial "rock & roll style of album, tour, hit, recovery is a structure set-up that benefits the record label and not the musicians at all. The musicians simply lose all creativity, tend to be permanently exhausted and end up loathing music" (qtd. in Prasad, "Bill Bruford", n. pag.); partly for that reason, too, King Crimson retired again after three 1980s albums, in 1984.

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