"But it is noticeable that as the folk memory of punk and of the mid-Sixties and rock'n'roll, has faded, so too is that distrust of art that Marcus wrote about approvingly, that Drummond enacted, that Bangs took for granted...
Gradually there has been a growing resignation towards the very thing that Nik Cohn found intolerable–the division between industrialised chartpop, brainless if entertaining trash, and a separate zone of 'fine music', which is totally comfortable with seeing itself as art."
Simon Reynolds presents a transcript of a talk he made at Harvard University in 2012.
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