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July 20, 2009
Big Brother Is Listening - The Classical Beat (Anne Midgette) – washingtonpost.com - [del.icio.us]
anne midgette's neatly sums up musoc.org "But statements like “Art Music is in many ways objectively superior to Pop ‘Music’” (note the quotes) make me grit my teeth and want to play Talking Heads albums really, really loudly. And this, from the FAQ, is just stupid: “The ‘music’ is melodically, harmonically, rhythmically, structurally, texturally, dynamically, thematically and conceptually barren compared to Art Music; it's also spiritually and politically shabby by comparison. It's short, trite and highly repetitive.” One is tempted to order a copy of Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue" for the site's editors, just for starters, but one wouldn’t know where to send it. Indeed, there’s something vaguely creepy about musoc's deliberate anonymity, which is evidently part of its philosophy, though there are limits to how much an audience will care about what a website says if one doesn’t know who’s writing it."Originally posted by pbailey68 from paulbailey.us (beta), ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jul 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM