Sentama Lin's Assignment
There's nothing wrong with Western music per-se. It's not the music that I have a problem with. It's how it's presented that's my problem.
I have no problem with music meant to be played in an opera hall or concert hall. I also have no problem with popular music. I have a problem with the western thought of what music is though.
Let me try to explain. As I have probably beaten to a bloody pulp, western music has become a commodity. It's exactly why I like Roman Catholic liturgical music and elementary school music. It seems to me that other music out of the church or elementary classroom context has no other purpose of meaning. It feels like a shiny new product. Sure it's perfect sounding but I have no reason to listen to it unless I really like the musicianship (for I think the only only music titles that I do own express some form of virtuosity - whether popular or classical).
So yes... the problem for me with our culture is just the product view of music. I don't feel that music should be reduced to a product because to have it reduced to that implies to the un-music-educated that music is only for the people who have studied. Music should be for everyone to listen and create and it is an insult to the art form to allow music to become some freeze-dried mass-produced piece of digital s**t purely for consumption.
I have no problem with music meant to be played in an opera hall or concert hall. I also have no problem with popular music. I have a problem with the western thought of what music is though.
Let me try to explain. As I have probably beaten to a bloody pulp, western music has become a commodity. It's exactly why I like Roman Catholic liturgical music and elementary school music. It seems to me that other music out of the church or elementary classroom context has no other purpose of meaning. It feels like a shiny new product. Sure it's perfect sounding but I have no reason to listen to it unless I really like the musicianship (for I think the only only music titles that I do own express some form of virtuosity - whether popular or classical).
So yes... the problem for me with our culture is just the product view of music. I don't feel that music should be reduced to a product because to have it reduced to that implies to the un-music-educated that music is only for the people who have studied. Music should be for everyone to listen and create and it is an insult to the art form to allow music to become some freeze-dried mass-produced piece of digital s**t purely for consumption.
