Jazz for aficionados
Taste is a construction by our living body/brain/ears conditioned by internal physiology as well as by society and also our own independant spirit history. Knowing my taste is knowing my limitations.Not only my strenght. In music taste must be educated by us and others.. I come here to be educated in jazz by many who know better than me and more and spoke well about it..."Tastes" of people as flying insects can cross one another and fertilize or inseminate us all if we are compatible kind for sure.. We all for example recognize Frogman as a well informed person about music in general and jazz in particular. A fertilizer...Or a seeder... I will stop my metaphors here... ;)
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I forgot to say that music in his effects on living creatures as well as sound is an objective event not a mere subjective one. Then our taste did not express a mere contingent free will as a choice but also reflect something about us even in our physiological reaction that constrain the choice... Then taste is a complex concept. Music is more than leisure activity ...It is a deep working probe in the ocean/atmosphere we are as body/soul. Taste is the reflecting peak of a huge unknown iceberg.
I forget to spoke here about the mechanization of the soul by social control acting on our taste...But it exist too ... |
I’m not sure I grasp what you mean, here. You’re suggesting there’s an unconscious somatic shrinking away from or filtering elements out of that which we’re hearing at the same time we’re consciously embracing it. . . or ???
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No, i simply suggest that our "taste" in music comes from many direction : social,family, individual potential but also our own general physiology.. Sound and music did not have the same effect on individuals and on cultures... We are free individually and collectively to express ourselves with some chosen set of scale,timbre,rythm etc but because we adopt some timbre,rythm,scale etc we also program ourselves in some ways instead of others... Then it is useful to deprogram ourselves exploring jazz if we are only in classical or exploring world music if we are in folk or pop etc... But because music is universal grounded in timbre evaluation and rythm it affect the body in consistent way...Then learning the reasons behind our own acquired tastes when we explore what may not appear as immediately so pleasing in others musical genres alien to us can makes us able to go deeper in our own internal mechanism. Musicians know this instinctively and they easily explore all music genres across styles and cultures, spontaneously, because the way the body perceive and evaluate sounds is universal...
it is better explained in these 2 articles : Here : «The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of harmony, new research shows. The findings challenge centuries of Western music theory and encourage greater experimentation with instruments from different cultures.» https://phys.org/news/2024-02-pythagoras-wrong-universal-musical-harmonies.html
And Here : «The research also dismantled the notion that music’s impact is purely subjective or culturally relative. Instead, it underscored the existence of cross-cultural, shared links between musical features, bodily sensations, and emotions.» «We conclude that music induces consistent bodily sensations and emotions across the studied Western and East Asian cultures. These subjective feelings were similarly associated with acoustic and structural features of music in both cultures. These results demonstrate similar embodiment of music-induced emotions in geographically distant cultures and suggest that music-induced emotions transcend cultural boundaries due to cross-culturally shared emotional connotations of specific musical cues. We argue that bodily experience, which may arise from skeletomuscular activity and changes in the physiological state of the body, plays a critical role in the elicitation and differentiation of music-induced emotions.» |
