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Thread #146595 Message #3396326
Posted By: GUEST,Blandiver
28-Aug-12 - 07:05 AM
Thread Name: Can a pop song become traditional?
Subject: RE: Can a pop song become traditional?
Never
Well, you know my feelings on Organic Change, I Ching & The Tao. The entire universe is in flux & flow for good (we plough the fields & scatter) or ill (fast falls the eventide) so there is a tendency to dream of something that Never changes. Maybe all human art is to move against nature to ensure solidity & permanance? At Stonehenge, Avebury & Thornborough our forebears were creating order and relative permanance on a scale which was, in effect, greater than nature. Wyrd will out however, no matter how well-wrought our walls, but for a lifetime, or several lifetimes, there will be at least something that will seem everlasting even as everything changes around it.
So Time that is o'er-kind To all that be, Ordains us e'en as blind, As bold as she: That in our very death, And burial sure, Shadow to shadow, well persuaded, saith, "See how our works endure!"