On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:27 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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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.
>
> Well there's rock n roll, hip hop, electronica, etc.
>
> Doug
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