This recording encapsulates so much of the cultural and technological state of modern Pakistan. I have alluded over the last few weeks to the decline of rock music as a genre in Pakistani pop. Certainly some of that change is linked to a shift in aesthetic preferences. Trends are essential in creative output because they allow new audiences to identify with new style, in opposition to what came before it. This is another way of realizing that stylistic change is perhaps a given in all popular art. But which direction it changes towards is not predetermined, and is in fact a function of a number of external factors. Perhaps because of my own training and work, it is hard for me to not see the impact of technology on this change in musical style.
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This recording encapsulates so much of the cultural and technological state of modern Pakistan. I have alluded over the last few weeks to the decline of rock music as a genre in Pakistani pop. Certainly some of that change is linked to a shift in aesthetic preferences. Trends are essential in creative output because they allow new audiences to identify with new style, in opposition to what came before it. This is another way of realizing that stylistic change is perhaps a given in all popular art. But which direction it changes towards is not predetermined, and is in fact a function of a number of external factors. Perhaps because of my own training and work, it is hard for me to not see the impact of technology on this change in musical style.