Applause! k > > >Oh gawd. Adorno: call your office. There are a lot of problems with >this guy's argument, the first of which is that he's pretty much >re-hashed the elitist cultural critique of a writer (Adorno) who has >been shown to be very intolerant towards any form of popular music--and >particularly repetitive kinds. This guy tosses around phrases such as >"Music is a language" or "Great Music" without really thinking about >the consequences of his logic. Thomas was right to point out the >mostly white, Euro/American bourgeois genealogy of composers/artists >that are "Great." A lot of these anti-pop, anti-technology, >nostalgia-for-the-good-old-days sort of arguments have a tendency to >indirectly re-support the idea that music associated with other >genders, races, sexualities, etc. are somehow inferior. > >poop! >Luis >Toronto ---> Chicago (Fall)
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