A hearty "Aye!" You go, Howard! Eugene
> -----Original Message----- > From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On > Behalf Of howard posner > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:29 PM > To: Lutelist list > Subject: [LUTE] Re: ET FunFest > > Don't you just love pseudo-science? Someone with a Ph.D. in > behavioral science or statistics or whatever thinks "musical taste" > can be quantified and measured. Just start plugging in specifics > and you'll see how meaningless it is. It involves all sorts of > assumed judgments about what music is or is not sufficiently similar > to other music. (It's 1962 in Toledo, Ohio, you're 18 and hear the > Beatles for the first time and love what you hear. Are you > appreciating music outside of the preferences you acquired at 13, if > you were listening to Elvis at 13? If your favorite record was the > Music Man original cast album? Nat King Cole's greatest hits? Or is > your area of preference Western popular music? What if you take up > the lute at 35?) > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
