Whilst his book on the Beatles is a fantastic text, the late Iain MacDonald was also guilty of this sadly. His "Peoples Music" essays book that was published shortly before his death is full of this similar thinking. A frustrating read, as it appears that he had some phenomenal ideas on music, but was not prepared to sail on the back of future technology and be prepared to criticise what had gone before, and see where it took him.
-----Original Message----- From: Ken Odeluga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 July 2004 15:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Org Subject: RE: (313) interesting pretentious music article 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) > >> http://www.furious.com/perfect/technologytrap.html >> > > >
