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Presented at the Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 25, 2014. Audio is available here: http://aramsinnreich.typepad.com/aram_squalls/2014/04/brooklynsound.html
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WHY DOESN’T THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’
SOUND LIKE BROOKLYN?Aram Sinnreich Rutgers University
School of Communication & Information !
EMP Pop Conference April 25, 2014
BROOKLYN’S MUSICAL LEGACY
SELLING THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’
NY Magazine, 2009NY Times, 2014Bklyn Mag, 2014
NY Mag, 2013Vice Mag, 2012
IN SEARCH OF THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’
Grizzly Bear
IN SEARCH OF THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’
MGMT
IN SEARCH OF THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’
Dirty Projectors
IN SEARCH OF THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’
Parquet Courts
IN SEARCH OF THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’
Vampire Weekend
TRACKING INFLUENCESGrizzly Bear
Elliott Smith (Omaha) Mercury Rev (Buffalo) Neutral Milk Hotel (Athens)
MGMTFlaming Lips (Oklahoma) Sparks (LA) David Bowie (UK)
Dirty Projectors
Black Flag (Cali) Brian Eno (UK) Fela Kuti (Nigeria)
Vampire Weekend
XTC (UK) Peter Gabriel (UK) Spoon (Austin)
Source: Music Bloodline, Rovi
THE GREAT MIGRATIONBen Goldwasser,
MGMT
Ed Droste, Grizzly Bear
Amber Coffman, Dirty Projectors
Andrew Savage, Parquet Courts
Rostam Batmanglij, Vampire Weekend
THE BIGGER PICTURE: DEMOGRAPHICS2000-2010:
Brooklyn's population grew by 39,000 people. • White population grew by 38,774 • Asian population grew by 75,838. • Black population shrank by -49,517
White growth
Asian growth
Black and Latino growth
THE BIGGER PICTURE: ECONOMICSRising rents, 2004-2012
RISING RENTS = SHRINKING BUDGETS
THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’ OR THE ‘SEGREGATION SOUND’?
Rise of the ‘Brooklyn Sound’
THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’ OR THE ‘SEGREGATION SOUND’?
WHAT DOES ‘RETRO’ MEAN?
Antibalas Sharon Jones/Dap-KingsLee Fields/Expressions
THE BACKLASH
THANK YOU.
Aram Sinnreich Rutgers University
School of Communication & Information !
EMP Pop Conference April 25, 2014
!Twitter : @aram [email protected]
