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| From | "josh chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: random first hour Grammy musings - like you care |
| Date | Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:12:28 -0500 |
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I think there's more to it than that. People are entitled to personal
taste. Not caring for hip hop doesn't make you any less a "renaissance man"
than the next guy. Why wouldn't one expect a listserv devoted to melodic
music to be largely comprised of people who tend not to care for unmelodic
music?
Hip Hop, Opera. The allure of each is thoroughly lost on me. Doesn't mean
I am incapable of "getting" that they are legitimate art forms. Just means
I don't like 'em. And I've given both a fair shake. (for the record, I
prefer hip hop to opera. But that may be because it is usually in English.
Although I'm totally getting into late 60s/early70s Brazilian music, and
that's in Portuguese, so maybe not.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Elliott" <pop@anotherplanet.ca>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: random first hour Grammy musings - like you care
> >Years ago, such people angered me. Now I mostly just find them
> >pathetic and vaguely amusing.
>
> You are still never going to be able to argue someone into liking
> hip-hip if they don't. Which usually seems to be the genre mentioned
> that sets you off. Not everyone wants to or has the time to be a
> musical 'renaissance man' - and trying to discover all that is good
> across all genres is often just a quest for cultural superiority, the
> Martha Stuarts of music. Sometimes it's more fun to be hardcore on one
> genre - for the newsgroups and the festivals and other social aspects -
> and it's easier on the pocketbook as well.
>
> And then there's the 'Maximum R'N'R' crowd - hate those guys.
>
> Lee
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