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In Reply to: RE: Of Course It's the Problem......... posted by Todd Krieger on April 17, 2014 at 19:45:35
..."I believe classical music lost popularity because the media stopped airing it, rather than the other way around."
Classical music started losing popularity when the television replaced the radio. Classical music is brilliantly suited to radio. Like reading novels. It's not a television medium, and all attempts to film it have been fundamentally boring, hence people don't watch it, hence it's not broadcast much.
Other things suit television. The world has changed. Putting on more classical concerts won't change much at all. There just isn't much of a way of turning an hour long symphony into an exciting visual experience.
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"Putting on more classical concerts won't change much at all."
This is why I used the airing of it in Japan as a contrasting example. That alone is *overwhelming* evidence refuting this claim.
There is zero generational influence, if the masses at a young age are constantly exposed to it.
is that they have a well-funded public television network. Is that what you're proposing?Of course it does air on PBS with some frequency, but there is a segment of the population that works hard to undermine PBS.
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Of course you're right about the forces at work trying to undermine PBS in general.
I'm of the view that the lack of demand is primarily due to the lack of education. We could have a 24/7 Symphony channel and I don't think it would change much in terms of the public's awareness. A change in education on the other hand...
Dave
I'm quite prepared to believe that audiences in different cultures and countries might be more receptive to classical music or culture in general - the less they are exposed to mass-stimulation media as in the USA the more they may read and take more time over things that matter on a deeper level.But in the USA I just don't see it, I'm afraid. Audience reaction from Japan doesn't refute the situation in the USA.
"The root problem is in the network media..... We never had a problem with kids becoming familiar with classical music up to the mid 1960s"
It was the kids that changed as a result of the new audio-visual interactive environment. Yes - the media partly triggered the change, but now they're also following the results of it. It's the whole argument about production and consumption - do we create the media or does the media create us. It's usually both. Just airing live concerts won't have the effect these days it had in the pre-1960s, which was also more of a radio era in any case.
And in any case, internet sites are more widely used by kids these days than broadcast media.
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