buildingsofclouds:

Only five per cent of the music may be glorious

but in this case he seems to be using it to identify highly complex musical forms that arise out of normative social activity – an actually existing practice in many parts of the world, but in post-industrial societies, one which has been annexed from the public sphere by the deleterious forces of the culture industry and therefore rendered alien

meanwhile…in Chile…”There was the Kiss-In, when students made out for 1,800 seconds (30 minutes) in front of La Moneda, the presidential palace, to publicize the $1.8 billion it would supposedly cost to finance public education — and the 1,800 laps students jogged around the building, in round-the-clock relays; the protest where people dressed as zombies and danced to “Thriller”; thecacerolazos, tweet-ignited outbreaks of people banging on pots and pans, raising a swarming metallic-insect racket.”

-Francisco Goldman for the NYT