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In Reply to: RE: Is listening to music even popular anymore? posted by xrayspex78 on October 27, 2014 at 20:45:58
People listen to *deliberately arranged sounds* all day long - all night long too, in some cases. Even those who don't have access to electricity will be busy making tunes for themselves. Even babies seem to do this.I doubt that it's possible for humans to remain truly silent and/or musci-less. Suppress speech and the thoughts continue to be endowed with tunefulness.
At least one primitive culture believed that if they stopped making music the physical world would disappear. So (it is claimed) they never stopped.
We may not always like the music being made by those around us but that is a topic in itself. Perhaps what you had meant to ask was, "Does anyone listen to music in a passionate and insightful manner anymore?"
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and VERY insightful.
As I age, I listen to music less and less. I don't know why. I have a
decent sized music library, almost all of which I really like, but feel
no inclination to play any of it most of the time. I used to lust after
Mosaic and Bear Family box sets constantly, now I don't. I don't go to
concerts any more.
And I don't play too much music in my head.
I'm also listening to less music playback than at any other time during the last 15 years. I still play it back in my head though. It's almost as if I'm trying to re-consider it or re-interpret it from the viewpoint of personal experience, I don't need the actual noise as much as I once did.Maybe you're a step ahead of me? Maybe you've discovered and experienced enough music, at least for the the time being? As the power of music becomes more and more ingrained, sometimes I find myself wanting periods of silence even more than intervals of noise. To paraphrase Stravinsky, "Silence is the basis of music."
All the same, there's always a certain magic to be found in blasting that stereo.
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I like silence. Edward Abbey wrote of "... the perfection of the silence
... ". I'm in complete agreement with him.
I also like to hike by myself (well, I take my 2 dogs when possible, which
means usually). I really enjoy the absence of the sounds of civilization,
and thrive on the sounds of birds, the wind, and moving water. It refreshes
me, I think. And as I hike, I usually mentally hum a snatch of some tune that has come to me unbidden. Usually something I really enjoy - Fletcher
Henderson's version of "Blue Lou" with Roy Eldridge and Chu Berry, for
instance. But sometimes, it's some trashy pop tune from my teenage years
- such as "Maybelline" by Chuck Berry. I hate it when that happens!
I used to think a lot about "desert island" music. No longer.
None of this means I have abandoned music. I have not. Sometimes I
just have to hear some Stan Getz, or Paul Desmond, or Johnny Hodges, or
the blues, or some killer bluegrass, or classical guitar. Or even
Chuck Berry!
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