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Bill Pirkle:
>Likewise in classical music, we can associate ourselves with European
>history, the Romantic Age, the La Belle Epoch, etc. by embracing the music
>from those periods and gaining a certain petigree in the process - you are
>what you like. This "petigree inheritance" is not possible by embracing
>avant-garde music which associates one with today, rebellion, rejection of
>the status quo, etc. There is no petigree in that.
This is a good idea, and partially explains the reject of the new art by
some people. It may be a variant of sociological theory of "legitimacy".
However I have a comment on this. We never love music *only* in itself.
Fortunately, love is never so pure. Music, as every human fact, is
contaminated of time. We need to see ourselves bounded in a line with
real or imaginary ancestors, and It's perfectly healthy that music helps
to this. After all, music is also a rite.
Pablo Massa
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