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In Reply to: RE: Jazz is now the least popular U.S. musical genre. posted by rbolaw on April 29, 2015 at 10:15:41
Intelligent and creative young people will always search for the genuine, the different, the message. They're just not currently getting it from atrophied art jazz or atonal modern music.
They get the exciting and the new from experimental indie pop, some of the better rappers, stuff like that. Any art form has to be new and vibrant to match the times. As others have said, if Mozart were alive today he'd probably have a rock band or be an internet entrepreneur.
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I like to think he would still have better taste than have a rock band.
After all he did actually like the sound of acoustic music.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Some people still haven't gotten over the culture wars of the 1960s.
For me, both rock music and classical music are musically entertaining, but in fundamentally different ways.Mozart was an adept practitioner in his day, but I think it's fair to say that this adeptness was somewhat conditional. Good classical composers or performers won't necessarily make good rock composers and performers - as a matter of fact, adeptness in one style might sort of pre-ordain incompetency for the other. There's no telling how he good (or poorly) he would have fared had he worked within a radically different social and artistic climate. If magically transported into today's musical environment, it is quite possible that he would die laughing before his pen had a chance to hit paper.
Edits: 05/02/15
"They're just not currently getting it from atrophied art jazz or atonal modern music."
"Atrophied" how? How informed are you on the subject?
Dave
nt
I know you were just joking, Rick, but these days you just can't call people atonal.
nt
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