Holding out hope.

Jim Sleeper at TPM cafe says what I've wanted to say but haven't been able to articulate.

Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Sasha Frere Jones controversy

It is interesting to consider the ways in which the Brooklyn Philharmonic's choices of "independently-minded musicians" to work with represent a minor unfurling of some of the implications of Sasha Frere-Jones's argument-starting polemic on whiteness in indie rock.