Mike Leghorn writes:
>If you could learn to like Disco, then you'd only have to buy one CD,
>and press the repeat button on your CD player. Same goes for a lot
>of the pop music that's played these days (which is the same as disco,
>but with a different name.
Perhaps Mike is being too hard on pop music. With any musical category,
greater intimacy results in being able to differentiate among the many
styles within a category such as pop. Put another way, a pop enthusiast
could take Mike's comments above and simply change "Disco" to "Haydn String
Quartets" and then relate how they sound so similar to Mozart String
Quartets. Familiarity breeds distinctions.
Don Satz
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