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Abandoning Mysticism: Alternative Music’s Innocence Lost (2012)

Guest post by Samuel Jones Lunsford , a musician , writer and creative force in Roanoke, Virginia 's burgeoning artistic community. Where once we shared ideas and used our individual talents co-operatively in an attempt to build an all-encompassing artistic shelter, we now fragment our complete musical selves into clique-ish segments and teams, as if in competition for untangible and invisible prizes of sporty ego. Where once each individual held genuine interest in the creations and philosophies of all others within the collective, now [...]