tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post5831587466596935874..comments2024-01-20T23:55:26.269-08:00Comments on The Detritus Review: Class WarfareUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-45366312484010025952008-10-02T18:23:00.000-07:002008-10-02T18:23:00.000-07:00Actually, I think there might be a point somewhere...Actually, I think there might be a point somewhere here in this article. We go to school to exercise our minds to make our minds work better than those who do not exercise their minds. The mind after all, is merely a physical part of the body, right? And some people use theirs better than others, right? The fact that Dante is clearly better with words than Dylan is known by people who understand Dante <I>and Dylan</I>. Just because Dylan has a somewhat larger appeal for being the Snoop Dogg of his time doesn't necessarily validate his work as "great art." <BR/><BR/>I'm just saying this 'cause I like all the composers on this concert ('cept the one I don't know), and write and play in all these styles. It would be intellectually dishonest to say that every pen stroke put on staff paper is equally as valuable as another simply because it is. Regardless how distasteful the idea of "class" is, it certainly exists, and life certainly operates around it. When one's playing a pop transcription and the vii7 diminished chord in d minor is spelled with a D-flat, one becomes aware in a difference in understanding AND perception.<BR/><BR/>But nevertheless I get your points. Wasn't that a fun concert program though?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-82016788821021087232008-10-02T07:10:00.000-07:002008-10-02T07:10:00.000-07:00Precisely. I perhaps should have been more clear;...Precisely. I perhaps should have been more clear; my indignation occasionally clouds my prose. Well said, sir.Sator Arepohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00006808744513156317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-73265880746873175592008-10-02T02:58:00.000-07:002008-10-02T02:58:00.000-07:00But it's not even a question of art vs non-art, it...But it's not even a question of art vs non-art, it's simpler and much nastier than that - it's suggesting that pop music lacks "impact" because it is made by people who aren't "well trained". What's more, the discernment of "pop fans" is called into question (they might prefer less "well trained" musicians), and the whole thing is tied up to people "lower down the social scale". In other words: the less well-off lack taste, judgment and talent, and make do with poor quality entertainment because they don't know better; but they can be cute sometimes. Aren't the rest of us lucky.<BR/><BR/>Ugh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-14446431359612572952008-09-30T11:29:00.000-07:002008-09-30T11:29:00.000-07:00Yeah, I probably need to cut down on the "much". ...Yeah, I probably need to cut down on the "much". Bad habit, overused idiom.<BR/><BR/>Habaneros and Listerine? Hilarious.Sator Arepohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00006808744513156317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-83202009998922829092008-09-30T11:18:00.000-07:002008-09-30T11:18:00.000-07:00That's what I often have trouble with in, say, a h...That's what I often have trouble with in, say, a history class, or maybe musicology. We tend to say "art" when speaking of something that exists for its own sake, not for a function (e.g. a procession). But, I'd throw a water balloon at you, filled with a concoction of habaneros and Listerine, if you suggest that commercial music (has the function of making money in some cases), which might also be intended for dancing, can't be art. Just doesn't follow. <BR/><BR/>And before I get a heap of FUs, most of us understand this, which is why this particular article, or any of the same ilk, bug me.<BR/><BR/>BTW Sator, "much" much?Empiricushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629835829400843701noreply@blogger.com