>>> John Halle <john.halle at yale.edu> 02/17/00 08:10AM >>>
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>> Intriguing how those who claim to view market forces with such
>> skepticism uncritically reflect these in their tastes in music.
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> If you tried to confine yourself to music not
> in the market , you wouldn't be able to listen to any good music.
Have you tried?
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CB: Well, I know a Yurok Brush Dance song. When I sang it and did a dance, someone said it rained for a week, but I think that was a joke. I guess there is a chance that the market has not stolen that from the Yurok yet, but with globaliztion of the market, I don't know if anything is safe.
You know, there's the Internationale, but even that was in _Reds_
Then there are some hymns that sound nice. I guess they are not exactly in the market.
But there is plenty of good music in the market, and you don't really have to buy it. I just listen to the radio, make free tapes from that. So, I don't have a big need to go outside the market. My life is music filled.
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> Beethovan was an entrepreneur.
Any evidence for this bizarre claim, or was this posting really supposed to go to alt.fan.milton.friedman?
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CB: I got it from some ordinary biography of B. See Shane Mage's post. It was not unusual for a middle classer to hustle and sing for his supper in those days.
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> Anyway, "criticality" is not the main standard with music. That is
> sort of a stuffy intellectual standard.
>Music is about dancing and partying and escaping
One can be sure that at least one nineteenth century activist/scholar/music lover would have this debased characterization of "what music is about" troubling, to say the least.
Would be nice to have an intelligent response to the above point. Still waiting.
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CB: That must be a European activist/scholar/music lover, if he didn't dance. He probably did party with all that wine that Engels sent him. May even have been singing in the pubs. Who knows ? Afterall , he did breakout lampposts with rocks.
You know what Emma Goldman said about dancing and revolution ?
You already got an intelligent response. You must have missed it.
CB