"Every Home Is Wired": 3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net

"Every Home Is Wired":
3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net

News and rumours: These include news about CD releases and reissues, and concert and tour schedules; additionally there are discussions about band reunions, recent, impending or potential changes in personnel, and other events (the deaths of musicians, references to the appearance of Prog in other media). News frequently first appear in the more 'official' mailing-lists, and are then reported in newsgroups, while conversely many of the more spurious newsgroups rumours do not make it past mailing-list editors.¹⁰	Bit 22
Questions of (sub-) genre boundaries: "The kind of boundary that defines a community is a major determinant of the kind of community ... it contains" (M. Smith, n. pag.), and so this area is of central importance. Part of the posts engage in discussions about whether certain marginal bands are still part of Prog as such, or of specific sub-genres; since much of the definition of Prog is through a central canon (or through sub-generic canons), as we have seen, questions of what bands are how centrally canonical, in comparison, are also included here. The discussion may also move on only to specific band members, albums, or songs, that are seen as being of special centrality to a band's oeuvre or the canons themselves. This is particularly important for more recent Prog, for which contrary to 1970s music "no comparable consensus has emerged" yet and "commercial success can no longer be used as a measure of importance now that progressive rock is a cult style" (Macan 10) -- we see here, then, a slow continuation of canon formation especially among post-Prog bands.¹¹	Bit 23

News and rumours: These include news about CD releases and reissues, and concert and tour schedules; additionally there are discussions about band reunions, recent, impending or potential changes in personnel, and other events (the deaths of musicians, references to the appearance of Prog in other media). News frequently first appear in the more 'official' mailing-lists, and are then reported in newsgroups, while conversely many of the more spurious newsgroups rumours do not make it past mailing-list editors.¹⁰

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Questions of (sub-) genre boundaries: "The kind of boundary that defines a community is a major determinant of the kind of community ... it contains" (M. Smith, n. pag.), and so this area is of central importance. Part of the posts engage in discussions about whether certain marginal bands are still part of Prog as such, or of specific sub-genres; since much of the definition of Prog is through a central canon (or through sub-generic canons), as we have seen, questions of what bands are how centrally canonical, in comparison, are also included here. The discussion may also move on only to specific band members, albums, or songs, that are seen as being of special centrality to a band's oeuvre or the canons themselves. This is particularly important for more recent Prog, for which contrary to 1970s music "no comparable consensus has emerged" yet and "commercial success can no longer be used as a measure of importance now that progressive rock is a cult style" (Macan 10) -- we see here, then, a slow continuation of canon formation especially among post-Prog bands.¹¹

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