Since I stopped doing the Top 40 Philosophy podcast, I also lost ownership of the top40philosophy.com domain and stopped paying for file hosting. However, I…
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Posted in Friendly Philosophy, and Music
Since I stopped doing the Top 40 Philosophy podcast, I also lost ownership of the top40philosophy.com domain and stopped paying for file hosting. However, I…
Today, my article, “Is Christian Existentialism Unbiblical?,” is going live on Conciliar Post. In addition to posting here and writing for Conciliar Post, I host the Top…
Idea: Some ways of presenting and listening to music create community, and others don’t (as much).
One of the great things about radio is that it sounds different from MP3s (or CDs, or records, or whatever). When you listen to a song on the radio, you hear it as something lots of other people in the area are also hearing at that very moment.
Radio, therefore, is good for the soul. It’s a broadening, communal, shared experience. Unfortunately, this means that “mass media” presentations of music need broad appeal, and individual old you may not like what’s on. So, you need your own private collection. But when you listen to a file on your computer, it’s just you. All alone.
But Spotify playlists–which you can create and share1–are something in between listening to the radio and listening to your private collection. They’re like the mixtapes/CDs of old.2 When you listen to such a playlist/tape/CD, you hear it as something you and others (whichever of your friends were also given a copy) are listening to “now” as well. The “now” is a bit looser than is true with the radio,3 but it’s still communal.
And that’s good for the soul.
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