Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
American serious Art still has to go to Europe to get its authorization
while the UK comes to America to authorize its commercial art. The lower
class Beatles came to America and were immediately compared to Beethoven by
idiot musicologists who had gotten their degrees in musicology because they
were not good enough to be performers. Otherwise they would have known the
difference.
[snip]
I read you wrong. I thought you meant that in England
the Beatles did not have freedom of expression,
but that in America they were free to do what
was prohibited (either by law or by oppobrium)
in England. (Sort of like I presume there
were authors who fled to Protestant countries in
the early days of printed books, in order to
be free to print what they wanted to say.)
You did not mean this. Instead, I think you mean
that the Beatles were free to express themselves
both there and here, but
they were able to get adulated here
in America for stuff that, in England, would
have been judged from a more informed and *therefore*
more critical -- both more polysemous and
also more degrogatory -- perspective.
But you know what they say: De gustibus non
disputandum est.
All music is created equal.
(--Peter Schickele)
If it sounds good, it is good.
(ibid.)
\brad mccormick
Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
[snip]
the Beatles invaded America and infected the music scene with what they
couldn't say back home unless they were high on drugs.
[snip]
Please, Ray, let me (us?) hear more about this!
I have no idea what you are talking about,
but since I like to revise history (even
though I did not major in it...), I'm interested!
\brad mccormick
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