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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.music.classical,net.audio
Subject: Re: Why classical music is not popular
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Date: Thu, 30-Aug-84 09:39:15 EDT
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> The real decadence lies in most forms of popular music that one hears over the
> radio. Just listen to the songs in the Top 40 category. Or disco. Or any of
> the in betweens. You can find so many similarities among all the songs, not
> just in the lyrics, but also the tune, and musical arrangement as well. And
> the audience likes it. [CHONG ONG]

It's a good thing nobody actually does this sort of generalizing, pigeonholing
and labelling X musics as junk and only Y musics as good.  I'm glad to see that
I was completely wrong about classical music lovers doing this form of
stereotyping.  (Is a smiley really necessary:-?)
-- 
"So, it was all a dream!" --Mr. Pither
"No, dear, this is the dream; you're still in the cell." --his mother
				Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr