That was actually a good post, but reading it exhausted me. I’m going to fix myself a Chivas & Soda and listen to an ancient 10cc album in your honor, After that it’s bedtime.
some things are better listened to than read about.
Of course, I also found that I enjoyed a lot of music more if I tuned out the words.
I've got a copy of "After the Gold Rush", and as beautiful as that song is, it's got to have the dumbest words this side of MacArthur Park.
I would guess not, and I think that's a good thing. The internet has taken hold in a big way, and the old media syndicate is losing control of the music industry. With all the alternative distribution channels available, people are now more free to choose for themselves what they want to listen to. No two people are exactly the same, why should we all want to listen to the same music? Artists are free to make music they like rather than having to dumb down what they are doing to a lowest-common-denominator radio audience. As a result, there's more music being sold commercially that has a narrow regional appeal. The 'World Music' pop genre of the late 20th century is on its' last legs.
There seems to be an undertone of the author pining away for so-called mass movements? With a couple isolated exceptions, they've left nothing but misery in their wake. They seem to be dying out and 'popular' music alogside.
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Intersting article. Wish I could say I understood it all.
Maybe the suggestion that Rock music is a serious art form would seem less silly if I knew a bit more about the techinical aspects of music overall.
Twelve-tone system ping! :)
I’m vastly ignorant of popular music so I started to drift moving into the second half of the article but the first half was interesting. I’ve recently found the music of Philip Glass and have for a while known of Arvo Part, so while I consider stuff by Cage and the like to be nonsense I don’t think that contemporary classical music is wholly lost to atonality or banging trash cans.
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the shared experience was dead by 1986 if not already by 1967.