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NOV 21: NO MUSIC DAY
Today is No Music Day. That’s right, NO Music Day: the brain child of writer, thinker, conceptual artist and former member of the early-90’s band KLF, Bill Drummond. Today we are asked to bravely go where no wo-man has gone before and leave our iPods at home. [gasp] What will we New Yorkers do while forced to sit next to each other on the subway? We may just have to. . .[double gasp]. . .have a conversation.
Drummond picked Nov. 21 in direct opposition to the following day (Nov. 22), the feast of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Why all the music hatin’? Apparently, Drummond was fed up with the commercialization of popular music best demonstrated by the dissemination of Muzak. According to the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, the average shop clerk hears ‘Jingle Bells’ 300 times in the few days proceeding Christmas. As a proud owner of the Time Life Christmas collection on CD, this doesn’t bother me at all. I do, however, understand the argument. At which point, is music dissemination infringing on our personal right to silence?
In two years, Drummond hopes to convince Apple to shut down iTunes on No Music Day. Good luck with that man.
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