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| - | ===== Blank Generalisations are Blank ===== | + | ====== Blank Generalisations are Blank ====== |
| - | Many people live under the misconception that “music is dead nowadays”. That’s a pretty broad statement. Firstly, you have to define what do you mean by dead. Dead, according to the Cambridge dictionary, is something that now is not living, which means that that “something” will also stop evolving. But that’s clearly not the case about music. There are still new genres born, new artists, new sounds. Therefore, the use of the word “dead” is rather irrelevant in that case. But let’s talk about some facts. | + | Many people live under the misconception that “music is dead nowadays”. That’s a pretty broad statement. Firstly, you have to define what do you mean by dead. Dead, according to the Cambridge dictionary, is something that now is not living, which means that that “something” will also stop evolving. But that’s clearly not the case about music. There are still new genres born, new artists, new sounds. Therefore, the use of the word “dead” is rather irrelevant in that case. But let’s talk about some facts. |
| It is definitely true that musical periods are becoming shorter and shorter. Baroque lasted 3 centuries, Classicism 150 years, Romanticism 75, and now, we live in the era of Contemporary music, in which the genres don’t even last for a decade, like, for example, techno music. Surely, that’s undoubtedly true. | It is definitely true that musical periods are becoming shorter and shorter. Baroque lasted 3 centuries, Classicism 150 years, Romanticism 75, and now, we live in the era of Contemporary music, in which the genres don’t even last for a decade, like, for example, techno music. Surely, that’s undoubtedly true. | ||
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| If you look at the history of music, an innovation was always keeping the whole thing going. Beethoven was the first one to start expressing his feelings through his music and Bach was the one experimenting with harmony during a time were your classical harmony book would be honored by musicians like the Bible. So, today, what’s that innovation? Well, today, people are experimenting with the way they treat sound in general not only music. Think of soundtracks. Think of how music production has evolved that much to produce a Hans Zimmer and his great Inception soundtrack. But soundtracks are not music, right? Well, wrong. Music is not only what’s popular, that’s the thing. Music is taking a completely different direction nowadays, which means it’s evolving. Which means it’s not dead. | If you look at the history of music, an innovation was always keeping the whole thing going. Beethoven was the first one to start expressing his feelings through his music and Bach was the one experimenting with harmony during a time were your classical harmony book would be honored by musicians like the Bible. So, today, what’s that innovation? Well, today, people are experimenting with the way they treat sound in general not only music. Think of soundtracks. Think of how music production has evolved that much to produce a Hans Zimmer and his great Inception soundtrack. But soundtracks are not music, right? Well, wrong. Music is not only what’s popular, that’s the thing. Music is taking a completely different direction nowadays, which means it’s evolving. Which means it’s not dead. | ||
| - | Music is going along with humanity. It’s evolving. It’s not dead yet. It’s no use being snobbish and saying “today’s music suck” because you listen to that “old” rock music so you’re cool. Looking at only one dimension of things is never cool anyway. | + | Music is going along with humanity. It’s evolving. It’s not dead yet. It’s no use being snobbish and saying “today’s music sucks” because you listen to that “old” rock music so you’re cool. Looking at only one dimension of things is never cool anyway. |
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| + | //written by Marina Alexopoulou// | ||
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