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Re: Music and the Future Generation
Posted By: eric sleator, on host 207.212.92.135
Date: Monday, October 16, 2000, at 11:10:56
In Reply To: Re: Music and the Future Generation posted by Wolfspirit on Sunday, October 15, 2000, at 22:53:03:

> > A friend once told me that it bites that eventually future generations are going to consider rap and disco to be great, classic music by the masters. I don't think rap qualifies as music, so we're safe there, but will the futures regard Donna Summer the same way we regard Wolfgang Mozart? What a peculiar thing to think about.
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> Well, we really don't have to worry about bad classical music, since all the really horrible classical stuff was sort of lost (intentionally or otherwise) 200 years ago anyway.
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> > -eric "I still don't see why he thought this was bad. I kind of like disco." sleator
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> I think 70's Disco as a genre itself isn't bad. It's what disco evolved into -- late 90's House music, or what's simply called Dance music -- which is monotonously aggravating beyond the pale. How did Iss phrase it delicately?
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> and so on. Ugh.
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> Wolf "not the Heart of Glass nor Queen of Swords" spirit

You mean like techno and such? I like that, too.

-eric "well, gee . . . " sleator
Mon 16 Oct A.D. 2000

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