{"id":177384,"date":"2024-01-30T10:07:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=177384"},"modified":"2024-02-09T17:19:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T23:19:33","slug":"hero-vs-protagonist-the-soundtrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/hero-vs-protagonist-the-soundtrack\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero vs. protagonist: the soundtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.honest-broker.com\/p\/how-we-lost-the-ability-to-listen\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Gioia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve seen intricate taxonomies of music genres, which divide and subdivide songs into every possible category from glitch hop to folktronica. I\u2019m told that the Spotify streaming platform has identified 1,300 different genres of music. Yet these lists never include the genre hero music\u2014the oldest and most enduring song of them all and the root of all narratives. Like other genres, it morphs and evolves, but it never disappears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(If you&#8217;re not reading <a href=\"https:\/\/tedgioia.substack.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gioia <\/a>regularly, you should be.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Gioia: I\u2019ve seen intricate taxonomies of music genres, which divide and subdivide songs into every possible category from glitch hop to folktronica. I\u2019m told that the Spotify streaming platform has identified 1,300 different genres of music. Yet these lists never include the genre hero music\u2014the oldest and most enduring song of them all and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/hero-vs-protagonist-the-soundtrack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hero vs. protagonist: the soundtrack&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-K92","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177384"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177389,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177384\/revisions\/177389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}