Pre-89 Music is Dead

Shhhhh!!!

 

That is way too musically literate to be posted here and everyone will think you are being stubborn like Mosh!

 

Actually there is a good point to that ... as an "experiential" art, it dies the moment after it passes, and it is your mind that recreates something of that moment that is not necessarily a part of it.

 

Recordings and such, allow for us to "relive" that moment and feeling, and even that is hardly the original feeling from that one specific moment in time ... and thus, when it changes so much, eventually most of us will get bored with it.

 

I live for those moments, and the only music that stands up in my ears and mind is the music that ... opens up that incredible array of images and thoughts and everything else you can think of ... and the day it came from, has absolutely nothing to do with it at all ... not one iota.

 

I do think that Walter's comment has a lot more to do with the commercial crap than it does the music itself. It has a tendency to make the music appear to look better when so few people around you have the patience or the ability to even sit through 5 minutes of what you and I can listen to.

 

 

The analytical study of the arts is more valuable and important in those areas (and languages) than it is in English ... in both America and England, too much is centered on the commercial side of things (how imperialistic of them, hey???) and to appreciate and study the arts and make sure they are recognized, is not important ... and the result is ... you get a board like this that tries to make it better, but "fans" tend to trash any literary or intelligent discussion.

 

My own father was a well known name in Portuguese Literature ... and since his death, to give you an idea, between my mom and many others almost twice as much as my dad had published in his own lifetime has been done since 1979 ... and mom is still going strong ... !!! that says something for the studies of the language and the arts ... which is not being done with a lot of this music. And when I try,  and do, it gets criticized as not important or conjecture ... what the heck are all those studies about?

 

And this has been something that I really would love to see this board be able to handle better ... but I am not sure it can happen until the leadership sets their mind and attention to it ... or add people that can think in those literary terms ... which we do not have enough of. But if the literary and educational side of it is not there, it won't happen. While I can appreciate a Snow Dog and Walter Digs Tunes just fine, in the end, folks that reply the way they do, is not going to help the "analysis" ... but it will help proliferate the post counts! There is a small side to that ana;ysis, but then, not everyone thinks that academic studies are important. I just think that some are out of line and counter-productive to the process and improvement of the art and its place in time ... but I am not sure those people care, of think about that ... they are kids having fun, right? ... just like you and I?

 

The terminology is not as important as the work itself ... but simply a way to explain some of the trends in it ... and yes, it might become termed that in the future ... but "post neo" will eventually lose its tracking, since every new form of any art is almost always "neo-post" ... which means the term is not flexible or capable of describing the art correctly.  Compare that to "romantic era" in the arts ... which is about 75 years long and is well represented in the major arts ... and all of a sudden a lot of the terms used in the progressive area are really bad, and not descriptive of the work at all ... just it's sound ... and the "art" needs to be bigger than just its sound.