Re: (313) interesting pretentious music article

[Luis-Manuel Garcia]

Oh gawd.  Adorno: call your office.  There are a lot of problems with 
this guy's argument, the first of which is that he's pretty much 
re-hashed the elitist cultural critique of a writer (Adorno) who has 
been shown to be very intolerant towards any form of popular music--and 
particularly repetitive kinds.  This guy tosses around phrases such as 
"Music is a language" or "Great Music" without really thinking about 
the consequences of his logic.  Thomas was right to point out the 
mostly white, Euro/American bourgeois genealogy of composers/artists 
that are "Great." A lot of these anti-pop, anti-technology, 
nostalgia-for-the-good-old-days sort of arguments have a tendency to 
indirectly re-support the idea that music associated with other 
genders, races, sexualities, etc. are somehow inferior.

poop!
Luis
Toronto ---> Chicago (Fall)
On Tuesday, July 20, 2004, at 01:39  AM, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote:

http://www.furious.com/perfect/technologytrap.html