[lbo-talk] Rhythm, dance, and music

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Just for the record, I never said that music lost its vitality when you could no longer dance to it. What I said was that jazz did. Nor did I say that vitality is the main or only virtue of jazz

It seems to me that rhythm is the trace of the social in music and that once it's gone, music is no longer about something that everybody can join in and do. It has lost its vernacular if you will. This is not to say that the select few cannot enjoy the rarefied pleasures of non-rhythmic music; it's just to say that they are few and select.

Joanna