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Silenced by Sound

The Music Meritocracy Myth

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Silenced by Sound

By: Ian Brennan
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Popular culture has woven itself into the social fabric of our lives, penetrating people's homes and haunting their psyches through images and earworms. Justice, at most levels, is something the average citizen may have little influence upon, leaving us feeling helpless and complacent. But pop music is a neglected arena where concrete change can occur - by exercising active and thoughtful choices to reject the low-hanging, omnipresent corporate fruit, we begin to rebalance the world, one engaged listener at a time.

Silenced by Sound is a powerful exploration of the challenges facing art, music, and media. Ian Brennan delves into his personal story to address the inequity of distribution in the arts and demonstrates that there are millions of talented people around the world more gifted than the superstars for whom billions of dollars are spent to promote the delusion that they have been blessed with unique genius.

Defined by muscular, terse, and poetic verse, and a nonlinear format rife with how-to tips and anecdotes, the narrative is driven and made corporeal via the author's ongoing field-recording chronicles and his memoir-like reveries.

After listening to it, you'll never hear quite the same again.

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