John Berger's influence on music criticism

oops, I just realized that my "story" is not the whole story, because it doesn't include the part where the artist realizes that her very self has become a commodity. At this point, there seem to be a number of directions the story could go, but they can all probably be reduced to two: the artist either rejects or embraces the notion of herself as commodity. Both of these yield equally interesting results, though as a consumer I have to admit (rather guiltily) to prefering artists who go the latter route, and I have a tendency to suspect those who take the former of disengenuousness. But I'm cynical like that.

i think a discussion of berger w.r.t. music crit should take into account "shape of a pocket" and/or his commitment to humanist values in high art. at least that's what i take from john berger, anyway.

Could you elaborate? I'm not familiar with the term "shape of a pocket"...

extremely insane thing that I just learned: when Rockstar was producing Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, they needed another voice actor to play a mob boss and legendary British art critic John Berger happened to be at the same recording studio so he did it. https://t.co/bsAGcU7WSj

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