[LAU] re Subconscious Affecting Music

[Ken Restivo]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:52:57PM -1000, david wrote:
> Brent Busby wrote:
>
>>> If the current system of complete bombardment and brainwashing is allowed
>>> to continue unchecked we are all complicit in the results.
>>
>> I don't mean to be offensive, but that does sound an awful lot like 
>> what parents were saying when Elvis came out.  :)
>
> I studied and played ragtime quite a bit. That was the "popular music"  
> my grandmother loved when she was young. One time when I was playing  
> some ragtime at her house, she came over and said, "Oh, you're playing  
> that dirty ragtime music." That was what her parents had said about  
> ragtime when it was popular!
>

Yes, wasn't it the music of whorehouses? The piano player would sit there in the parlor, striding away, while the gentlemen were waiting for appointments or flirting with the ladies.

-ken