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30 Jan 2012, 4:57 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
I think its because visual art and literature tend to be more passive.


Not sure about this. I would say reading a novel requires more effort and active engagement than listening to or 'taking in' music.

Edit: I was going to say, "After all, you can't read Dostoevsky while driving a car," but I actually recall trying to get a few pages in at read lights here and there while falling behind in a lit seminar one summer.

Edit #2: I mean "at red lights." Freudian slip or something, lol.



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30 Jan 2012, 5:04 pm

blueroses wrote:
techstepgenr8tion wrote:
I think its because visual art and literature tend to be more passive.


Not sure about this. I would say reading a novel requires more effort and active engagement than listening to or 'taking in' music.

Edit: I was going to say, "After all, you can't read Dostoevsky while driving a car," but I actually recall trying to get a few pages in at read lights here and there while falling behind in an American Lit seminar.

Well right, I kinda meant that in the sense that music can be taken in the same way sports can. Literature involves reading a book, often from start to finish - which lots of people do but recommendations and shared reading aren't quite as common or accessible as shared listening. Love hearing about and analysing visual art technique as well but people's eyes tend to glaze over with that kind of thing as well.


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30 Jan 2012, 5:54 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
I think its because visual art and literature tend to be more passive. Not to say there's that much less appreciation of these two mediums, just that they're less of a shared experience and often enough there's less overlap in what people read, who their favorite authors are, who their favorite painters are, thus the ability to really converse on these things gets limited (for books its the in depth aspect, for art its difficult to really 'say' a lot, whereas music can be posted on a youtube link, talked about in almost the same way people talk sports, and people can patch in with next to nothing invested).

I actually think it's the opposite, a lot of people can be 'into' musicl without really being musical, while you need some sort of inclination to talk about art and books. I have an on/off relationship with reading books, myself.


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31 Jan 2012, 8:13 am

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I actually think it's the opposite, a lot of people can be 'into' musical without really being musical, while you need some sort of inclination to talk about art and books. I have an on/off relationship with reading books, myself.

Yeah, I think accessible might have been a better term. In my own case its seemed like I found difficulty though not being active in it - ie. if your into a mainstream genre hardly anyone judges, if you're into an underground genre and not making music it seems to come off as strange (not that I made music on those grounds but I suppose it did have a component in forcing me to really try and get 'good' with it).


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31 Jan 2012, 9:54 am

Yes, I agree, you're strange/obsessed to people if you like your own things. I never liked music appropriate for my age or where I come from.


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31 Jan 2012, 9:59 am

Information is not knowledge
knowledge is not wisdom
wisdom is not truth
truth is not beauty
beauty is not love
love is not music
Music is the best.


Frank Zappa.

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31 Jan 2012, 10:00 am

Amen


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