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.
Wavels


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

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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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Med, you have unfortunately missed the point of my thread because my hunch is that you have not read the essay I linked.

The author comments on the original perception of the accuracy of Blooms' book and compares it to the state of Music twenty years later (now.)

It discusses the aesthetic perception of beauty and human excellence!

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If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.
~ Frank Zappa ~

Liberty means responsibility, that is why most men dread it.
~George Bernard Shaw~

Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, June Christy, Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams, Keven Mahogany vs Britney Spears and Emminem. Nuff said.

Vi

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You are absolutely correect in this comparison. Compare them against the beatles, three dog night, Bob dylan, Van Morrison, Eddie Van Halen, Led Zepplin, the Rolling Stones, and a plethora of others I cant conjur up right now. Smoke a fattie and crank them up and see if you don't get elevated, ~LOL~.

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