Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote:
since all music
is moving along some sort of timeline where what exists before
somehow has some influence on even the "newest" music, its
impossible to say that any music is no longer having an effect on
the most avant garde music. its part of one huge puzzle, you cant
take out any piece and still have the puzzle be complete.
Sure, I'll agree with that. But my making this claim you must realize
that you've also completely negated your original arguments, which were:
"its like they lose the history of the music altogether,
what happened in the past is no longer relevant, the only thing
that matters is what will happen tomorrow."
and
"i guess thats the
appeal of the whole IDM thing to some people, to constantly
progress without looking backwards"
If it's all on a single timeline, then you can't really "lose your
roots" at all. But after hundreds of years the connections are
stretched so thin as to be no longer recognizeable - much less
recognizeable as the connections between current IDM and old IDM, the
history of which, for our purposes here spans maybe 20 years. I think
you and I would both agree that current IDM sounds quite a bit more like
"roots" IDM than 13th Century French chanson. And I think scholars of
13th Century French chanson would agree as well (as would scholars of IDM.)
My point is simply that you can't have it both ways. You can't argue
that a particular genre has lost its roots, and then argue that music is
all inter-connected and each moment has a causal influence on each other
moment.
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Dennis DeSantis
www.dennisdesantis.com
