{"id":15204,"date":"2017-03-31T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15204"},"modified":"2017-03-31T08:28:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T12:28:12","slug":"why-food-replaced-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/why-food-replaced-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Food Replaced Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/033117_1217_WhyFoodRepl1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve previously covered the idea that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2015\/food-has-replaced-music-in-culture\/\">food has replaced music in culture<\/a>. Tyler Cowen wrote a little about why this was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With streaming services we now access whatever music we want &#8211; fewer people listen to the same music, and it&#8217;s hard to build a social identity around it.<\/li>\n<li>Streaming also means that we no longer own our music making it difficult to let it define us.<\/li>\n<li>In the past music played a big role in political movements like civil rights and anti-war. Today Taylor Swift is assiduously non-political, and Kanye West&#8217;s endorsement of Donald Trump generated few headlines.<\/li>\n<li>Food has taken over. Instead of MTV you now have the Food Network. Talk among friends is often dominated by the latest restaurant.<\/li>\n<li>On the bright side this allows people with a diverse set of preferences to join the conversation. Come from abroad and you can talk with pride about your home cuisine.<\/li>\n<li>But food seems to be less important as a cultural touchstone to minority communities, creating further divides in society.<\/li>\n<li>And a good meal with perhaps a splash of wine induces lethargy rather than the drive for political action that music used to.<\/li>\n<li>With the exception of one commentator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/taco-trucks-on-every-corner_us_57c8d112e4b078581f127680\">worried about an over-abundance of taco trucks<\/a>, our conversation about food is mostly non-political and perhaps somewhat banal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In fairness things may be changing. As we&#8217;ve previously covered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2017\/protesting-could-be-the-new-brunch\/\">brunch may be losing its allure to political activism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read Cowen&#8217;s entire article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2017-03-28\/once-we-listened-to-the-beatles-now-we-eat-beetles\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve previously covered the idea that food has replaced music in culture. Tyler Cowen wrote a little about why this was: With streaming services we now access whatever music we want &#8211; fewer people listen to the same music, and it&#8217;s hard to build a social identity around it. Streaming also means that we no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/033117_1217_WhyFoodRepl1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15208,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204\/revisions\/15208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}