rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (08/16/85)
> Rich Rosen recently made some sarcastic remarks about judging music > by how the performer looks. Well, isn't pop/rock really more theater > than it is pure music? > > There is a reason why most pop/rock stars do not look like CPAs. > Since their 'image' is part of the performance, that is as valid > as area to express one's taste as any other. > > No? > - Karl Malik Oh, quite true. Classical music is clearly not based on image or fashion or theater, while pop/rock music clearly is. Take Wagner and Fred Frith for example. Oh, wait, did I get those two backwards? "Hello, Mr. Beetgarden? This is your publisher. Yes, we've decided to call your new piece "The Moonlight Sonata" because our marketing analysts think that's the best way to sell it. Hello? We must have a bad connection, I can hear *you* perfectly..." Sorry, Karl. I don't think that's the basis of a dichotomy between so-called "popular" music and so-called "classical" music. But we've been through this before and we all were never able to clearly define any boundary lines of substance, were we? -- "Wait a minute. '*WE*' decided??? *MY* best interests????" Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr