[Formerly BS:] Musical snobbery

Subject: RE: BS: Musical snobbery
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 09:37 PM

No, Rap... I just said I hate bad music...

I love good music... Doesn't much matter style... I can tell bad opera from good opera... Bad rap from good...

Just a matter of listening to enough to hear it correctly...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Musical snobbery
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 09:23 PM

I'm not a musical snob, like Bobert I enjoy good music, from blues to baroque.

But as for musical instruments, well, you always hear about the "last trumpet" and Joshua knocking down the walls of Jericho with trumpets, and trumpets being used to announce royalty. I mean, can you even imagine the Day of Judgement being announced by the Last D7minor? Has any great leader been announced by the sound of saxophones? We all know that the trumpet is THE instrument, right?

Subject: RE: BS: Musical snobbery
From: Janie
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 09:01 PM

What Jenny and Jeri said. Because I don't care for some music doesn't make it bad music. Just makes it music I don't care for.

Subject: RE: BS: Musical snobbery
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 08:47 PM

It took me a long time and a lot of words to say, basically, what JennieG said so concisely.

Subject: RE: BS: Musical snobbery
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 08:44 PM

At what point does what you call "personal preference" become what others call "snobbery"?

I read the question earlier, and tried to figure out what I thought, because it's not just music. When does not wanting to date people because they look a certain way, are from certain a place, like things you don't like, become snobbery? When does preferring wine to beer, or silk to polyester become snobbery? We all have things we like better than other things.

I think "musical snobbery" is when a person's dislike of certain music use it as license to ridicule other people for what they prefer. To belittle them or their music. To bitch, whine, piss, and moan about it. It's an enormous turn-off. Maybe it's a way of bonding with like-minded jerks, but I hate it. I'd rather not hear about what these people don't like.

And a logical extrapolation is, if you think it's acceptable to ridicule the music someone likes, you probably ridicule all sorts of things about other people.

(The word "you" isn't aimed at anyone in particular.)

Subject: RE: BS: Musical snobbery
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 08:39 PM

I am a complete musical snob... I mean, 100% USDA Choice...

I hate bad music!!!

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Musical snobbery
From: JennieG
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 08:37 PM

To answer the original question, I would say that musical snobbery is denigrating other people's taste in music. It doesn't matter if we all share each other's taste or not.....heavens, the world would be a dull place indeed if we all liked the same things, whether it be music, books, films, anything at all......but just because someone doesn't share your taste doesn't make them better or lesser than you.

I like many music genres although rap music leaves me cold, as does doof-doof head banging music, and modern so-called 'country' music does nothing for me at all - but you may like them, and that's quite OK.

Now I am off to play my ukulele.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Musical snobbery
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 08:22 PM

Can't a person dislike something without being called a snob? Music is complicated, and a person's inborn response is even more complicated. Much of it can't even be verbalized.

My husband doesn't like beets. Does that make him a vegetable snob?

Subject: RE: BS: Musical snobbery
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 07:32 PM

everyone has a right to assembly and that includes music you like..if you don't like it you don't have to listen to it. you do not need to make snooty comments etc...but you are under no obligation in my world at least to try to stand it if it hurts your ears.

Subject: RE: BS: Musical snobbery
From: framus
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 07:11 PM

I must admit I can't stand modern pop, and DO rather think it has little musical merit. But then, I'm awfully old!

Subject: RE: BS: Musical snobbery
From: gnu
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 05:42 PM

I am not one. I just don't associate with people who groove on Baptist hymns. It ain't a musical thing.

Subject: BS: Musical snobbery
From: GUEST,DDT
Date: 02 Feb 13 - 05:01 PM

Are we all musical snobs at some point? Is there a point at which it is justified? What do you think musical snobbery is?