Re: John Cage recordings

["Alan Imberg" <alan_i@sprynet.com>]

I may be a too idealistic but I would like to see a day when categories are
done away with. The categories we have are inadequate as it is. Yet music 
is
categorized in more fragmented terms. Carlos Santana said in an interview a
few years ago the the term "Classical" was outdated. To his mind, Classical
meant classic. His idea of classic music was John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
I subsribe to that mode of thinking.


> Dennis wrote:
>
> > It makes me wonder where looper music will be classified in fifty 
>years.
>
> i can't think of anything more awful than the "loop music" section at a
2050's
> era equivalent of "borders" (okay maybe one or two things more awful)...
>
> i remember a discussion on the list about whether it's fair to talk about
> "loop" music as its own special category, somehow separate from the flow
of
> music culture in general...like, delay music, or sampled or cello or
harmonica
> music, as though the instrument or technique employed to create the music
> determines its typology (i stop this line of reasoning at accordion 
>music,
> because it is indeed in a category unto itself :-)
>
>
> lance g.
>
> (on a philosophical morning?)
>
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