----- "Jonathan Wilkes" <[email protected]> a écrit : > There are "naughty" pieces by Mozart that have survived the ages, > regardless of past Mozart scholars who > have excluded them from their catalogues of the "complete" works of > Mozart. It may have been ignored for a > bit, but the cult of genius generally trumps the opportunistic desire > to destroy art. >
We know Mozart because he has his pretty face on candy boxes, like F.Z. used to joke. > Anyway, your point that "it's not art anymore, art IS killed" is > clearly false. Imagine a tyrant who declares that > the only suitable music is a) by Beethoven and b) in C minor. It's > certainly a travesty that anything > by Haydn or David Bowie would be banned, as well as Beethoven's 6th > Symphony, but it surely remains a fact > that Beethoven's 5th is still a great symphony, regardless of the > tyrant's endorsement. > > There are plenty of pieces of music that sell very well in times of > nationalist fervor, or in general. But it's sheer > confusion to say that these pieces _aren't_ art for that reason. > That's misdirected anger; the real problem is > that other pieces are excluded because they either don't fit easily > into a category, or they present an alternative > viewpoint that sits uncomfortably with general opinion (i.e., > dissident music). > > -Jonathan The problem is really actual, because it's related with this post-industrial period, where almost anything could falsified, or duplicated, where the main concept is about brain eating with a perpetual flow of those (duplicated&falsified) informations through almost all media, also used by "dissident people", who actually would be represented by rappers, or DJ's. Here we have a kind of example of the musical continuity imaginated by E. Varese where the musicians are removed to give the auditor always the same product. It's just a matter of time for anything individually created to be completely removed from the mainstream, and replaced by a logo, a lobby, a brain firmware. Kokorokara -- Patrice Colet _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
