6 Aug
2012
6 Aug
'12
3:43 a.m.
On 06/08/12 02:16, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Most people paying for listening to music aren't
musicians
theirselfes. They neither are that (self-)educated that they need (or
even are able to listen) to more complex music. Mass media have the
which is perhaps one of the huge changes in music in the last 60 or so years
... most popular music was played and sung by the listeners until then, the
ability to play something pre-recorded, here music that is not directly
connected to your own playing or singing, or at least someone in the room with
you, is really very recent in the development of music. Older popular music was
as much about the pleasure of reproducing it as it was about listening to it.
Simon