daemon@decwrl.UUCP (02/07/84)
From: akov68::boyajian I certainly favor the elimination of net.records and the formation of music subgroups, with one suggestion: I may be burned as a heretic for suggesting this, but maybe some of these hurt feelings of the part of jazz, blues, or folk music lovers could be soothed by having the non-classical subgroup be called net.music.popular. I know that "pop" has negative connotations for a lot of music lovers, but looking at it objectively, "popular" *is* a good generic term. I have at least one friend who abhors "classical" used as a generic term for "longhair" [boy, is that an obsolete term!] music, seeing how it is a specific style of music (exemplified by Mozart). Strictly speaking, baroque, romantic, etc. music is *not* classical, yet it is called such. N.B. Please don't interpret the comment about soothing the hurt feelings of jazz, blues, and folk fans as being patronizing --- I enjoy all of those genres of music, as well as rock and classical. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard) UUCP: (decvax!decwrl!rhea!akov68!boyajian) ARPA: (decwrl!rhea!akov68!boyajian@Shasta)
rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (02/08/84)
Aha! Now we have the ultimate subgrouping. Put all serious music in net.music.classical, and jazz, blues, folk, etc. [?????] can go into net.music.popular, which of course is not being patronizing or elitist... Of course, classical is a misnomer, so we'll have to change the name to net.music.serious. So now all we have left to do is distinguish which musics belong in which groups: Van Halen -- net.music.serious: They're like artists, man, and anybody who gets compared to Steve Howe... Leonard Bernstein -- net.music.popular: Hey, he wrote movie soundtracks and scores for musicals, and he wrote a rock opera. He never could conduct anyway... Rick Wakeman -- net.music.serious: All the music he stole from was serious... Grateful Dead -- net.music.serious: Anybody who can stand up there and play what they play for as long as they do have GOT to be serious... Ludwig van Beethoven -- net.music.popular: Everybody knows who he is, and what about A Fifth of Beethoven??? Further pigeonholing exercises are left to the reader. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUBGROUPS FOR NEW TOPICS AND SUBGROUPS BASED ON TASTE!!!!!! -- Pardon me for breathing... Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr
mazur@inmet.UUCP (02/09/84)
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inmet!mazur Feb 9 01:58:00 1984
I agree with Greg Woods and Jerry Boyajian. Let's have some sub-groups
for net.music! Maybe the purists are afraid that if both rock and
classical notes are pulled out, there won't be anything in net.music.
OK, leave rock in. Please give the classical fans their own sub-group
at least. I'm at least as tired of classical notes as Laura Creighton
was of Dr. Who notes in net.sf-lovers :->!
Beth Mazur
{ima,harpo,esquire}!inmet!mazur
P.S. I like classical music, especially Bach. I just don't like
reading about it all the time.