Thank God we don’t live in a meritocracy (when it comes to music):
If technique were the only path to prestige, we would be suffocated by a pantheon of power players all getting their shred-on with no recourse to creative spirit. Granted, when it comes to music’s strength, part of that which mobilizes bodies to do more than dance, i.e., excites novel countercultural movements at large, has historically…