I agree with all of this. No music is inherently "lesser" because its creator is unschooled. Or *is* schooled, which was my only point, to try to debunk the romantic myth that unschooled artists are more "real," ipso facto.
-Fred Gordon Mackie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >>More thoughts on the matter of 'literacy' and artistic expression. Do >>you have to go to art school to be a painter? If so, why does Henri >>Rousseau hang in the Musee D'Orsay in Paris. >> >>Another thought. If music is intrinsic to the human experience,(which >>I argue it is) is all African tribal music lesser because they don't >>read notation or go to music school? >> >>Another thought. Is all folk music 'lesser' because it is a form of >>untrained aural/oral history? >> >>I suppose what I'm getting at is notions of all forms of musical >>expression having validity ..the same validity...no matter what the >>form. That is, it is about the human experience. Having said all that ,>> I do believe in some music being better or worse than others. >>(usually a drunken party conversation)..lol
