Chris A
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It doesn't help, however, in making his point. I didn't want to watch it, but I did...twice. I think I get what he's saying, and I think he's basically right, but it doesn't make much difference in reality. I'll explain:Having your title be a clickbait does not automatically invalidate the content.
I thought that by now all this angst with "music genres" would be so subdivided into so many buckets of musical belief systems that no one would pay much attention to a particular genre--whether or not they "should like it". Apparently, this hasn't happened yet. Nor has many other things about people getting "better" as promised in Star Trek. Alas... I think that everything we call "school" is going to change--dramatically. The question is: "when will everyone begin to see what the pedagogy problems are?". Everyone needs to be able to read and do basic math, and the country in which you live needs citizens that are cohesive enough in their support for societal order. After that, that's where the current education system begins to lose relevance to reality: the real world. Everything else can change in education...and probably will in your lifetime.
If you go to one of the sources that was posted earlier (Wikipedia) and start down the list of composers, I think your jaw will drop. You've heard some of these people's music--trust me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_21st-century_classical_composers This means you listen to classical music in some form. It may not be the pedagogy of classical, however. And that's what everyone seems to be arguing about here. I don't care about pedagogy at this point, nor do most others nowadays. There is FAR too much music to listen to...to argue. (I question the motives of those that do.) Just pick one piece from each composer in the Wiki list that I linked. It will take you some time to get through those--trust me.
Perhaps you can understand the viewpoint that I'm attempting to share... When I was preschool age, my mother was a church (pipe) organist who was doing a masters in musicology. Since I was her youngest child, I became her "student in musicology"--starting at age 5. Later on, I became a good musician and got a scholarship in the major--which I took for one semester before I realized that I needed to make a living. So I switched to engineering. (Not important stuff, but perhaps revealing on how I see things.) I learned this one the hard way: if you think in hard-and-fast terms about music genres (like my mother still does) you get into these sort of quandaries, and thread like this one become long and winding ones.
One more thing: we all know people that watch TV talk shows, eat only at fast food franchises (and argue about the different types of catsup tastes, or Coke varieties), smoke cigarettes, and get married at age 16 after having their first child and going to jail at least once--possibly involving illegal firearms, drugs, extramarital relations, and/or liquor. That's a sort of life ethic that--I don't know--I was taught to avoid. Their musical tastes can be inferred from that sort of upbringing, too. Some of these people do really well on general intelligence tests--really well. I don't want to live like that, however, but I'm sorry to have to admit it here.
Music is what it means to you...and nothing else (unless you're trying to make a living at making it). If you are worried about what others think then you're being conscious of the societal impact of what each of us do. That's a step in the right direction. But don't let that sort of thing get out of control. Like what you like, but also dare to expand what you do like. I find life gets better when I do (within reason).
Chris