ext_48634 ([identity profile] nex0s.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] xiphias 2007-04-10 03:12 pm (UTC)

There is an assumption in that article that everyone is going to be stopped by the Power of Classical Music.

I won't be. I mostly don't get it.

I WILL be stopped by the Power of Jazz though.

There's an assumption of "inherent quality" that classical music aficionados make that irritates me to no end.

I think he did well too. I think it's more a lesson about the assumptions that go along with the unexorcised notion that Western Music of Venerable White Men is inherently Better Than anything else. If that were the case, I'd see less crowds around the breakdancers and more around the classical cellist at 42nd.

N.

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