[lbo-talk] lefty on futbol

[Mike Beggs]

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> Mike Beggs wrote:
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>> I think you can make a case for artistic declines
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> For all such "declinists" I reccomend that they read/reread at least
> once a week Chapter 2 of Raymond Williams, _Culture & Society
> 1780-1950_. Your lineage goes back to the pastoral poets of early Rome
> -- about 2500 years and counting.

It's The Country and the City - chapter 2 of Culture and Society is
about the romantic poets.

And Williams is writing about nostalgia for 'the organic community',
not artistic declines.

Also it was a little unfair of you to snip the rest of my sentence
'... within genres, and to the extent that 'the West's' music is
composed of genres, possibly even in 'the West's' music as a whole.' I
stressed the 'within genres' to avoid the suggestion of a transcendent
perspective for criticism. Also, I was arguing against Somebody that
there had not been such a decline in music in recent decades.

Mike Beggs