quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Are you listening to anything I'm saying? Music might be escapism when you stop everything else in your life and just sit there listening to it, like you might when playing a videogame or reading a book. But what makes music quite unique amongst the artforms is it can permeat everyday life. I don't think listening to music while working is "escapism", I don't think listening to music while travelling is "escapism". |
Of course I'm reading what you're saying, I just don't happen to agree with you for the reasons I gave you.
Nefardec could easily chime in and say that architecture is an artform that permeates everyday life just as easily - you're in a building right now, aren't you? Odds are, even if you're outside, all you have to do is look around to spot a building.
As for the "escapism", if listening to music while you work isn't a way of occupying your auditory system with something different from the usual input you have from the world around you, then you're welcome to say why it isn't escapism in this one case (rather than just claim it isn't escapism because it matters to the listener).
quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I also find it daft that you'd treat music and life as somehow separate realms, that you escape from one into the other. For someone who claims to read a lot of philosophy, that seems a very simplistic view. |
Actually, the reason why I'm espousing such a deflationary view of music is because I don't believe there's a single set of rules all musicians (should) conform to - even regarding their attitude... and I've never had a reason to not be a sceptic. For that matter, I find it hard to keep a straight face and say there's anything as "music" rather than "musics". It's quite obvious to me that whatever it is that the purpose of music according Tom Jobim, J.S. Bach and Tony de Vit had in mind were so utterly disparate that to claim anything like "music should be X" is doomed to failure. That's why I tried to defend a position antithetical to yours. Being Brazilian, there's nothing more fitting to my worldview than the idea that the most important aspect of music is its playfulness.
Last edited by Lira on Aug-19-2011 at 19:33
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