12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Mus

it may be less the population changing than additional segments of the population getting involved with a twist of technology. I doubt many 12 year old girls had money to buy tickets to a LVB concert back inthe day. Now they have hundreds of millions to spend. Nothing else other than alien probing could explain Justin Bieber. Toss in the computer, internet and a dash of tone sculpting vocal software and you can make music in your garage and distribute worldwide. Well either than or Marakanetz is right in the 6th post and the world is actually just getting dumber.

Schubert writes,

I suspect(strongely) there were be NO current acts even known a hundred much less three hundred years from now.
Popular music is utter garbage plain and simple.

A related question (or two):

How much contemporary classical music will be remembered a hundred years from now?

and

Where does classical (oh, say) Indian music sit on the universal scale of musical value?

Marty

PS It need not be a given that all great art comes from the academy. The guitar has the ability to emulate that most essential of human communications - speech. However, that emulation involves bending strings - a technique central to the blues and (virtually) absent from classical Western guitar music. My own guess is that the blues-based, guitar music of the 20th century will survive and remain of interest to a small group of people, much like (tho likely smaller than) those small groups that follow the various strains of classical music today.

Just a guess, obviously.

This is not to suggest that blues-based guitar music is "superior" to Western Classical music. The structural complexity and ambition of Western classical music separates it from pop and folk forms. However, that is not the only measure of artistic value. A simple idea, communicated in a straightforward and effectively way has artistic value. Enough to last for centuries? Only time will tell.

Posters might want to remain a bit sensitive to the merits of historically African (or other non-Western culture) based art forms. You can pick your own scoring system, but you should always understand that it is your own scoring system, reflecting your own cultural biases - not a universal "truth".

Hey folks, should US citizens listen or boycott arab music in the face of fighting terrorizm??
We stomped to the Middle East a number of times for a reason of building our own wealth (and probably will continue to stomp coz enough is never enough!) or another words conquerring their resources...
Does that mean that they will void listening to Gershwin, Ellington, Miller and other great composers?
Imre Kalman was hungerian jewish composer very widely listened and recognized by german nazis!
Composers and performing artists are just as human as we are and they do not dictate politics, although they could be forced to write/perform some 'patriotic' music (or acts) by dictatorship government...

Art should be independed of nationality or religion anyways and should only be dictated by public...
So let's welcome our new 'maestros' JayZ, Rihana, Lady Gaga that represent our nation's culture of 21st century!

Rja: 'The nazis really liked Wagner'
Hitler liked Wagner. Where did the idea come from that the nazis had some great appreciation of classical music? They were bigoted murdering thugs. Thats all.

Martykl: 'Posters might want to remain a bit sensitive to the merits of historically African (or other non-Western culture) based art forms'

Such As?

It does nor demean any other form,time, society ,nation,race or culture to state the obivious and that is the music of Bach,Mozart,Beethoven,Schubert et al is the greatest artistic acheivment of the human race.

Nor does that imply,in any way,shape or form, that the culture in which they lived and laboured is superior to any other.

If the ONLY music that existed was that of Bach alone, music would remain Gods greatest gift to man.