{"id":169,"date":"2005-05-19T09:32:16","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T14:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=169"},"modified":"2024-06-12T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:46:08","slug":"pop-culture-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek online has another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/may2005\/tc20050519_8337_tc024.htm\">excellent article<\/a>. This time on the emerging popularity of videogame music. For old school <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idsoftware.com\/games\/quake\/quake\/\">Quake<\/a> fans, this will come as no surprise &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/nine-inch-nails\">Nine Inch Nails<\/a> was doing game music years ago. And although more popular bands like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metropolis-records.com\/artists\/?artist=frontlin\">Front Line Assembly<\/a> get more attention for their game efforts, within gaming circles musicians like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinrieplmusic.com\/music.htm\">Kevin Riepl<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/billbrownmusic.com\/news.htm?092603NEWS\">Bill Brown<\/a> have the attention of their fans as well.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more interesting to me is how this relates to other game and virtual world content. There are popular figures within the gaming community unknown to the general public &#8211; texture artists, skinners, modelers, aso &#8211; who may some day garner the same kind of attention we know reserve for traditional artisans.<\/p>\n<p>(edit &#8211; turns out Wired is carrying a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/e3\/0,2879,67559,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6\">similar article<\/a> today)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek online has another excellent article. This time on the emerging popularity of videogame music. For old school Quake fans, this will come as no surprise &#8211; Nine Inch Nails was doing game music years ago. And although more popular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=169\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[139,128,121],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-music","tag-popculture","tag-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}