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From: mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Do you have to be a Musician to enjoy Music ?
Message-ID: <880@artsnet.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 90 16:00:14 GMT
References: <586@sdl.scs.com> <522@quad.sialis.mn.org> <588@sdl.scs.com>
Reply-To: mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
Organization: ARTSNET  Atlanta, GA  USA
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In article <588@sdl.scs.com> dan@sdl.scs.com (Dan Adler) writes:
>	Sure, you can enjoy pop songs more when you're non musical. To me that's what
>pop (and the more progressive forms of brain damage) are all about. Taking all
>the intellect out of it, and leaving just the caveman-instinct level. The culmination
>of course is rap, where through diligent research and the full utilization of modern
>drug technology, even the anachronistic concept of melody has finally been disposed
>of.

Melody was disposed of long before rap, and in some of the *most*
intellectually oriented music.

As for 'diligent research' and comments that followed, I sincerely
doubt that the developers of rap used those methods in order to
dispose of melody.  Did you forget to include the smiley?
Otherwise, I'd place those comments in the neighborhood of some of
the nuttier book and record burners.  (And I am far from being a
fan of rap, BTW.)

I would guess, by your inclinations, that if someone doesn't care
to decipher all the microscopic structural aspects of a Boulez sonata
that they are too stupid to be musical, or do you reserve
intellectual viability only for Mozart and Bach, or whoever's
music it is you happen to like (led there those nasty caveman
instincts, of course)?

Cheers,

--Mark

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