"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.

20	This outcome may surprise industry theorists like Herman & McChesney, who claim that "the evidence suggests that the Internet and the digital revolution do not pose an immediate or even foreseeable threat to the market power of the media giants. In the current political climate, ... global media firms will be able to incorporate the Internet ... into their empires, while the egalitarian potential of the technology is minimised" (107).
21	Attali even envisions a stage "in which music could be lived as composition, in other words, in which it would be performed for the musician's own enjoyment, as self-communication, with no other goal than his [sic] own pleasure" (32). The increasing numbers of offers of self-produced recordings at little more than cost price that independent artists are making in many Internet music newsgroups could be a first step towards this.
22	Only artists like Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, who are regarded as having moved on from 60s idealism to the 'pragmatism' of the 90s, have received largely positive coverage in recent times, therefore.
23	For example, the live improvisations of King Crimson and fusion of Soft Machine in the 1970s, and conversely the lyrics in current Prog, by the Swedish band Landberk (in English), the Italian Deus ex Machina (in Latin), or the Finnish Höyry-kone (in Finnish).

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