Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Good Vibrations
Glenn Freeman writes: Jerry,
Check this out!
"The music of the 20th century was a necessary step in our evolution.
Now that we know what negative music is, and once we realize what
positive music really is, then we can achieve a balance." -- Don
Robertson (from the "Positive Music" website)
There is a whole series of writings on this idea, written below ...
http://dovesong.com/positive_music/archives/basement.asp
... certainly someone should take this issue up on Sequenza21. Okay, somebody just did. My idea of negative music is music used to stir tribalism, nationalism, sexism, racism, religious differences, violence, and other pathologies associated with excessive emotional fervor and an abandonment of reason.
posted by Jerry Bowles
5/02/2006
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