Quoting Mike Craghead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Quoting Stephen Hannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >> If art exhibits Quality then why do people like so many > >> songs with these same (Static) chords? Any thoughts? > >> > >> Lack of educated taste. > > "Lack of educated taste." > > Pardon me Holden, but ARRRGH!! > Folks who have not studied music to your standard cannot appreciate > music? Someone who cannot converse about composition and style and line > and form has a lower quality experience when they view art?
I guess you don't believe about art (as in all things) that some things are better than others. Quality is meaningless if everything is of equal quality. > You see art and music through your goggles, and to claim that they are > better goggles is like claiming that your fingerprints are superior to > mine. They are different, and that's about the only statement you can > make without imposing your morality. I have no interest in "imposing my morality" although I see many people who would like to, like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson ruin the career of Imus for making an "insensitive" remark. > This is not to say that there is not music out there that is crappy. > This is to say that it's not up to you or me to dictate which is crappy. > If a 15 year old sees quality in something, finds it transformative or > cathartic, that's what they see through their goggles, and no Phaedrus > can say anything about it except "that's not for me." Exactly. Except you and I can say it's crappy any old time we want. But dictate it out of existence? No. > As for "same (Static) chords," there are entire genres built around > common chord progressions. Blues is not about dynamic chord structure, > it's power lies elsewhere. Country is often about nailing the canon; > there is a formula, it is static, and that's okay! The dynamic quality > is in there, it's just sitting on top of a really solid static > foundation. "Bad" pop? As much as it pains me to say it, formulaic pop > CAN have quality. The fact that I don't get it and you don't get it is > irrelevant. We just lack the perspective. Are we overeducated? > Undereducated? Improperly educated? Not 15? Good point about common chord progressions. But, why is our opinion of music "irrelevant." After all, above you say (and I agree) some music is "crappy." > Can a critic survive the MOQ? Don't know what you mean. > There, I feel better. Nothing personal, Holden- you touched a nerve! Not a problem. As Carl Sandburg said, "If it doesn't make you laugh, cry or angry, what's the point?" ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
