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  Posted by Matt Conner    03:34 PM   Tuesday, 16 October 2007 | Permalink         
With my new website - Stereosubversion.com - some people have asked me, "Why another music site?" And that's a good question that's a lot bigger than just my own site.

We discuss the ideas of faith and the arts a lot around here at Infuze. It's even the logo at the top right of your screen in the form of a signpost. When people begin to discuss such things, it can quickly devolve into a conversation of "in" and "out", "safe" and "dangerous", "sacred" and "secular". Eventually this label turns into "Christian" and "non-Christian".

I will assume that most of you reading here have realized the fault in this and don't need me to explain what exactly is wrong with specifically labeling things "Christian." But the issue still remains: What do we label things then? It's not enough, you see, to simply stop labeling things the wrong ones. That only gets rid of what was bad, but it doesn't replace it. And if we don't thoughtfully apply a new label, then it's only more confusing.


So when the dream for a new music-specific website took shape, the question was clear: What is our focus? And within that question lies an even better one: What labels do we use? In other words, do we just cover certain genres? Do we cover certain artists? A magazine like Relevant seems to cover David Crowder in one issue and Ben Folds in another one. And while that might be "cool" or even a good thing, a lot of people can't explain why that's a good thing. It just seems good.

My interjection for Relevant and other places (even Infuze) is to answer that question. Why do you cover what you cover? It's important to give people reasons for understanding these things. For us at Stereo Subversion, the idea is really simple. Let's just cover what is meaningful. So the slogan "Meaningful Music Exists" was born.

Of course, that's subjective. It's not quantifiable. But it gives us a rudder. People believe different things are meaningful, but that's part of the journey and adventure - a collaborative effort of all of our writers to identify that which is meaningful. Together, we might develop a good idea of what makes music meaningful and what doesn't.

And in the meantime, if we can just get people to stop asking "Christian or non-Christian" and turn it into "Meaningful or not meaningful?" Then I think we've turned a corner.

-Matt

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