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Originally Posted by pbradley
Your professor is just angry that he has no objective criteria to which he can classify good music. He's in denial.
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The thing is, classical music is the only form that spends an awful lot of time deciding not what is 'good' and 'bad' but '
how do we describe this?'.
I wouldn't agree with what the Professor's saying, but I do think it's massively important to not conflate narratives (and, sometimes, it's massively important
to conflate narratives).
Ultimately, people pontificating about music (hi) will generally spend more time doing so than actually making music, whether good or bad. I have a strong sense that I wouldn't be talking shite on the internet if I was Ligeti OR Joey Ramone.
Personally, I venerate classical for entirely different reasons to why I like Happy Hardcore or Ragga. I can entirely understand where the professor is coming from, and I think it's very important that people hold up that position, but it's not for me. However, it's very much a straw man for SYG, methinks.