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Re: Coffeehouse Guitar vs street-busker
Then again, you could just dismiss my mindless, subjective rambling as
I ponder
why it is that sometimes when I perform people stop and go "wow! what is
that???" and other times they just walk on by....
I wasn't trying to pick on anyone, and certainly wasn't trying to be
offensive.
Paul
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> Quoting Krispen Hartung <khartung@cableone.net>:
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>> There was a time when I would have vehemently and completely agreed
>> with you above, but my thinking has changed and softened up. I
>> believe the idea of having soul in your playing, being moved by
>> music and having notes grab you, is an entirely subjective and
>> relative notion. A piece of music can be emotionally provocative
>> or stirring for one person, but sterile and unmoving to another
>> based on their individual and unique emotional makeups. Therefore, I
>> believe making blanket statements about certain types of music and
>> playing approaches in regard to their artist merit and emotional
>> impact are essentially vacuous and illegitimate. If you can find me
>> one style of music or approach to playing that is as you say above
>> to ALL listeners, then I would consider your point valid and
>> proven....good luck with that, however. ;) It is very difficult to
>> find or legitimize universal or generalized value statements in art.
>> Many try, but end up betraying themselves in the long run for doing
>> so. I don't mean to come across as harsh or pedantic here, but
>> statements about the artistic or emotional impact of music do need
>> to be translated and qualified as personal and subjective sentiment,
>> and not factual statements that denote actual characteristics of
>> art. In my opinion, there is no such thing as a factual value
>> statement about a piece of art, only factual statements that
>> describe measureable or empirically observalbe characteristics of
>> the art. Everything else I feel falls into the personal feeling
>> category, which is more telling of the observer and not the piece of
>> art.
>>
>>> Paul Haslem
>>> dulcimer guy in Canada
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>> Kris
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