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Additionally, due to Levin's influence, many of the instrument's early adopters come to
the instrument with a bass background (myself included), and inadvertently perpetuate
this preconception of the instrument.
Also, the Stick became primarily associated with progressive rock, which is itself
a marginalized, and often maligned, style. While "prog-rock" often provides an
atmosphere of experimentalism that coincides with the venturesome musical worldview
that initially spawned Chapman's innovation, it also carries with it a stigma of
excessiveness, pomposity, and intellectual elitism (Holm-Hudson 2002, 8; Walser 1992,
266). These preconceptions about the instrument have influenced the way in which it
has been presented to the cultural mainstream and subsequently adopted. Pre-existing
gender stereotypes surrounding the instruments that logically lead to the Stick, as well
as the general racial profile of the progressive rock community, resulted in a community
that is composed primarily, but not entirely, of Caucasian men over the age of 25.
In the case of Levin and other early adopters, exposure to the Stick was almost
exclusively the result of first-hand, face-to-face contact rather than through mediation.
A recording is an entirely different "thing" than an instrument in a live performance.
Sound recordings are "split from their source through the chain of audio production,
circulation, and consumption," and "open new possibilities whereby a place and a
people can be recontextualized, rematerialized, and thus thoroughly reinvented" (Feld
1996, 13). On a recording, an instrument's voice is objectified, separated from its
"thingly" nature, and "re-thinged." Perception, on the other hand, is a holistic38
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Hodges, Jeff. "Being" a Stickist: A Phenomenological Consideration of "Dwelling" in a Virtual Music Scene, thesis, May 2010; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28430/m1/46/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .