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The social is not the only modality of resistance: at times the solitary is even more effective, "dropping out " as we used to say. And mediated expression (like recorded music) freely shared online eliminates capitalist control and being coopted. . Our mentor Hakim Bey discounted these options. I'm not sure he was right.

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You're right about Klezmer being tied to the social: the alienated solitary artist is a late arrival on the Jewish cultural scene, first appearing with the Di Yunge poets, in a radical break with the tradition of Yiddish press. And music needs an audience to fully unfold itself in ways writing does not.

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