On Aug 17, 2012, at 1:50 PM, [email protected] wrote: > There have been a number of songs about money -- ranging from the > depression's BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME to MONEY, MONEY, MONEY from CABARET. > Whether or not you want to CALL them a "genre" is simply an arbitrary decision > about word use. "Genres" are not extra-mental entities. They are totally > cerebral concoctions.
I am sure there are ten or fifteen--or even one or two hundred--songs, but that's an infinitessimally small number compared to the corpus of love songs, war songs, even work songs. But this shouldn't come down to "extramental entities." William asserted, for example, that art "confront[s] what it means to be human." My original question is, if money and wealth are so important to human life, why isn't there a more well-developed range of works of art that address it? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
