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BAN POP MUSIC NOW!
Have been pointed to the Webpage for musoc.org, an activist site with avowed political intent that supports, among other things, the following ideas and policies:
--Art music is objectively superior to pop music.
--If you disagree you are a relativist.
--Anything that is not art music is pop music, so minimalism, 'total' serialism, musique concrète, etc. are pop music.
--Pop music should be BANNED from all public and work places that are not licensed entertainment venues.
--Pop music should be BANNED from children's television and other media.
(h/t Josh Kortbein)
--Art music is objectively superior to pop music.
--If you disagree you are a relativist.
--Anything that is not art music is pop music, so minimalism, 'total' serialism, musique concrète, etc. are pop music.
--Pop music should be BANNED from all public and work places that are not licensed entertainment venues.
--Pop music should be BANNED from children's television and other media.
(h/t Josh Kortbein)
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i feel slightly dirty for clicking on the link...
ETA:
JEEBUS but that's a badly laid out website, what's with that middle column that goes on forever?
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Actually I think they do have it in the US tho. I do not know much about our copyright sistren and brethren across the sea except that we have to liase with them about Beyonce.
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From the style I suspect that if anyone did agree with him he'd be a bit baffled and verging on upset.
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http://www.musoc.org/classtraitors.htm
what music-lover can forget the assassination of John Dowland's songs last year on 'Songs from the Labyrinth' by 'Sting', an inexplicably famous popster who can barely sing by pop standards, let alone those of art music;
got to love those scare quotes.
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My impression from Josh's email was that this was a recent discovery, though actually looking at the email now, Josh doesn't imply this one way or another. He does say, "The amount of helpless resentment on display here is impressive."
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(Anonymous) 2009-08-04 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
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