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Thread #149377   Message #3475252
Posted By: GUEST,Eliza
03-Feb-13 - 10:33 AM
Thread Name: [Formerly BS:] Musical snobbery
Subject: RE: BS: Musical snobbery
Just because certain types of music are 'more complex and more difficult to compose' doesn't necessarily make them superior, or more enjoyable. I personally like the cora and the balofon, and simple African music played softly on them is a joy to me. But anyone could play them, it isn't complex music. Neither is music by the Baka (as in Baka Beyond, a mixed-nationality group playing in the style of people once called 'pygmies'.) But I adore Carmen too, and Beethoven's 5th piano concerto. I like Morris music, folk singing, choral works by Handel, and Thomas Tallis, George Formby, The Singing Postman, R&B, Hip-Hop, etc etc. None of these is 'better' or 'worse' than another, or 'more skilled' or 'too basic', just lovely and uplifting each in their own way.