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Old 11-15-2007, 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Wavels View Post
This is a fantastic essay on the degradation of Music by “rock” and modern “pop” music.

IMO, anyone who takes the time to read this essay will find they are unsettled at the realization that we have changed our current cultural appreciations significantly and profoundly for the worse.

It helps if one is familiar with the book--- “The Closing of the American Mind”….(first published twenty years ago now.) but is not necessary.

I hope you find this to be provocative and insightful.
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http://newcriterion.com:81/archives/...ars-ago-today/
Favorite excerpt from essay....

but what’s wrong with a bit of rock and roll? Nothing. Except that, when it’s ubiquitous, it’s stunting. Paul Simon and I once had a longish conversation about this and eventually he conceded that even the best rockers had nevertheless been unable to develop beyond a very basic harmonic language: There isn’t enough there to teach in a “music” course
No wonder you are so strange, you don't even like rock and roll. That usually means a person has very little soul. I suppose you like Jazz, that cacophony of sounds that doesn't have any semblance of music, just moronic blaring of individual efforts. I tried to like Jazz in the 60s, but when the beatles came to power, Jazz was out. I BTW don't care much for current rock, although every once in a while something good comes accross.
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