love it how...

[fingertrouble]

I can hardly ever have a decent normal conversation with a older bears re: pop or modern music.

I apparently am a bitch* and ageist and don't know what I'm talking about. *Sigh*.

Back to my two much older partners who listen to Handel, Wagner and suchlike, or aren't really into music. So much safer...cos I know little about those. Apart from Bach and Wagner who I mostly hatehatehate. Well only bits of them.

I do hold strong views re: music having written, podcasted, listened, watched, DJ'd etc for years...but strange how it just reverts to age. I thought that had passed years ago. Happy to argue the toss, but strange how people immediately get defensive and offensive.

But me? Ageist? Really?


*irony of a supposedly butch looking man in redneck bubba drag living in NYC choosing to call me a bitch, well...choice of that word confirms that in this case I see Tarzan and most definitely hear Jane.

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[snousle.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering what you mean by "modern" music? When I hear that, I think Schoenberg or Stravinsky.

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

true; I could have a less deep conversation about those. More deep re: the minimalists (Glass, Reich, Adams etc)

I meant modern pop music, but I know the 'modern classical' brigade has hijacked that term. But the too-hot touchstone seems to be pop music, as if it's a new religion/sex/politics That Should Not Be Discussed.

Then you get the 'it's all music right? I like what I like?' which although true is rarely helpful....nice to think sometimes why you might like something, where it came from, what it's meanings might be...

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

BTW quite a few of the early 20th composers (and artists) thought the modern music was jazz...Gershwin for example.