Music: Entertainment? Culture? Or both?

[Belcher]

"This Music Contains Olestra. Olestra  or acoustic guitar may cause abdominal cramping and loose stools. Olestra inhibits the absorption of some notes. Notes A, D, and E have been added." --FDA warning label on a set of Mozart string quintets

I had a great time reading the thread. Very well managed thread.

[Monsieur Croche]

"Entertainment? Culture? Or both?"

Both... always.

Indigenous, from indigenous folk, through popular, including the 'classical' / antique traditional and the profane and sacred = all from a culture and reflecting the culture(s).

Next!

[Monsieur Croche]

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WELL, thank you for this!

I am offering free to the public my simple answer to
"How can people like that?"
"How can people find that music satisfying?" and all other like. 

The answer is applicable in all cases, regardless of how high or how low the aesthetic Limbo bar is set.  It is so simple you will slap yourself on the forehead and then go into a face-palm of humiliating embarrassment when that flash moment comes when you realize "I coulda thunk this up all by myself!"

"How can people like that?"
"How can people find that music satisfying?" -- and all other like.
"They Are Not You."

I was stuck part-way through a student piece I was working on; when I commented to my comp teacher that I had no idea of 'what next,' hoping for some prompt from him, he replied, "Entertain me!"

Yes, Virginia, 'entertain'is a neutral word. Ergo, the most profound and revered piece of music recognized as profound the world round, will be 'an entertainment.'


Best regards

[jochanaan]

WELL, thank you for this!

I am offering free to the public my simple answer to
"How can people like that?"
"How can people find that music satisfying?" and all other like. 

The answer is applicable in all cases, regardless of how high or how low the aesthetic Limbo bar is set.  It is so simple you will slap yourself on the forehead and then go into a face-palm of humiliating embarrassment when that flash moment comes when you realize "I coulda thunk this up all by myself!"

"How can people like that?"
"How can people find that music satisfying?" -- and all other like.
"They Are Not You."[/size][/color]

I was stuck part-way through a student piece I was working on; when I commented to my comp teacher that I had no idea of 'what next,' hoping for some prompt from him, he replied, "Entertain me!"

Yes, Virginia, 'entertain'is a neutral word. Ergo, the most profound and revered piece of music recognized as profound the world round, will be 'an entertainment.'


Best regards

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