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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Why classical music isn't popular: new theory!!!
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Date: Tue, 17-Jul-84 15:31:22 EDT
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> It seems that most people prefer pablum over steak, cartoons over
> serious drama, comic books over literature, etc.
> In short, people will resort to almost anything to avoid thinking.
> Lets have a hand for the musically impaired - dep

Yes, snobbery rears its ugly head once again.  Of course, all thinking
people know that the only serious music worth listening to is the
well-defined and culturally purified so-called classical music, and that
all other musics in the world (including rock, jazz, that hideous punk
garbage, third world musics ["Of course, Clarence, they're not ed-ju-ca-ted
in the ways of true music, heathens that they are..."], electronic musics
["But, Buffy, it's not made with *real* instruments..."], etc.) are
uncultured drivel.

It would seem to me that a goodly number of the classical snobs in the
world have never listened to anything other than "top forty" classical
music:  e.g., Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture,
etc.  Quick to look down their ski-slope noses at those who listen to
hideous "pop" music (which they've never listened to except to utter
near-profanities about its low quality and cover their ears), these are
the same people who grimace at the thought of listening to anything outside
of their known favorites, be it Palestrina, Partch, Pepper, or Public Image
Limited.  They laugh at the "uncultured slobs" of the world who watch lowly
TV shows and movies and listen to drek on the radio.  Yet *they* are just as
much LAME SHEEP as those they deride.  Yes, some people will resort to almost
anything to avoid thinking.  Even listening to popular classics so that they
can pass themselves off as suave sophisticates while still avoiding the process
of thinking.  Thank you, allegra!dep, for pointing this out.

[THIS MAY NOT APPLY TO ALL REAL LOVERS OF SO-CALLED CLASSICAL MUSIC, BUT IT'S
 CERTAINLY WORTH POINTING OUT IN LIGHT OF allegra!dep's ENLIGHTENING COMMENTS
 AS TO HIS EXPOSURE TO OTHER MUSICS.]
-- 
a more wretched hive of scum and villainy: not found
					Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr