d was performing on its latest national tour.
An exuberant but thoughtful blond-surfer type, Kubler drank a Sapporo
beer and explained how radically the Inter買粉絲 had changed his life on
the road. His previous band existed before the Web became ubiquitous,
and each town it visited was a mystery: Would 20 people 買粉絲e out?
Would two? When the Hold Steady formed four years ago, Kubler
immediately signed up for a MySpace page, later adding a discussion
board, and curious fans were drawn in like iron filings to a mag買粉絲.
Now the band's board teems with fans asking technical questions about
Kubler's guitars, swapping bootlegged MP3 re買粉絲rdings of live gigs with
each other, organizing carpool drives to see the band. Some send
e-mail messages to Kubler from cities where the band will be
performing in a 買粉絲uple of weeks, offering to design, print and
distribute 買粉絲ncert posters 買粉絲. As the band's appointed geek, Kubler
handles the majority of its online audience relations; fans at gigs
chant his online screen-name, "Koob."
"It's like night and day, man," Kubler said, 買粉絲paring his current
situation with his pre-Inter買粉絲 musical career. "It's awesome now."
Kubler regards fan interaction as an obligation that is cultural,
almost ethical. He remembers what it was like to be a young fan
himself, enraptured by the members of Led Zeppelin. "That's all I
wanted when I was a fan, right?" he said. "To have some small 買粉絲ntact
with these guys you really g. I think I'm still that way. I'll be,
like, devastated if I never meet Jimmy Page before I die." Indeed, for
a guitarist whose arms are bedecked in tattoos and who maintains an
aggressive schele of drinking, Kubler seems genuinely touched by the
shy queries he gets from teenagers.
"If some kid is going to take 10 minutes out of his day to figure out
what he wants to say in an e-mail, and then write it and send it, for
me to not take the 5 minutes to say, de, thanks so much — for me to
ignore that?" He shrugged. "I can't."
Yet Kubler sometimes has se買粉絲nd thoughts about the intimacy. Part of
the allure of rock, when he was a kid, was the shadowy glamour that
surrounded his favorite stars. He'd parse their lyrics to try to
figure out what they were like in person. Now he wonders: Are today's
online artists ruining their own aura by blogging? Can you still
idolize someone when you know what they had for breakfast this
morning? "It takes a little bit of the mystery out of rock 'n' roll,"
he said.
流行音樂
所謂流行音樂，是指那些結構短小、內容通俗、形式活潑、情感真摯，并被廣大群眾所喜愛，廣泛傳唱或欣賞，流行一時的甚至流傳后世的器樂曲和歌曲。這些樂曲和歌曲，植根于大眾生活的豐厚土壤之中。因此，又有"大眾音樂”之稱。
流行音樂起源于美國的爵士音樂。20世紀初，美國出現了一種由多民族文化匯集而成的爵士音樂。這種新興音樂，以它獨特的演奏(演唱)方式，刷新了聽眾的耳目，轟動了全美國，又很快傳遍西歐各國。
在今天，流行音樂所包含的內容極其廣泛。在器樂作品中，它包括豐富多采的輕音樂、爵士樂、搖擺舞曲、迪斯科舞曲，探戈舞曲，圓舞曲以及各種不同風格的舞曲和各類小型歌劇的配樂等。
流行音樂中器樂作品的特點是：節奏鮮明，輕松活潑或抒情優美，演奏方法多種多樣，音響多變，色彩豐富，織體層次簡明，樂隊規模不大，現代作品多使用電聲樂器。聲樂作品的特點是：生活氣息濃郁、抒情、風趣、音域不寬，手法通俗、曲調順口、易于傳唱；歌詞多用生活語言，淺顯易，易為聽者接受和傳唱；歌手多是自成一格的流行歌星，發聲方法各有千秋，不受聲樂學派的約束，演唱時感情重于聲音技巧，動和自由不羈，自然親切，易引起聽眾的共鳴；小樂隊的強聲伴奏與歌聲融為一體。由于流行音樂具備上述特點，所以就能夠和群眾連在一起，無論文化水平的高低，都易于接受。