[Dixielandjazz] Age and Sects

[Grahame Parker]

I see mention of " sects"
Would these be " aural sects' ?
Grahame Parker
trombone redux
Peoria AZ



>From: "john petters" <jpettjazz at btinternet.com>
>To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Age and Sects
>Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:35:42 +0100
>
>
>John Petters
>Amateur Radio Station G3YPZ
>www.traditional-jazz.com
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dan Augustine" <ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu>
>To: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 4:16 PM
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Age and Sects
>
>
> > DJML--
> >     It seems to be one of the inescapable accompaniments of aging that a
>person will gradually listen to less unfamiliar music.  (Same is true for
>reading books, and trying new things in general.)
> >     Younger folks, in their teens through their early adult years, like 
>to
>try new things, sometimes finding some that they enjoy.  They hold on to
>those they like, and over the years they (well, OK, we) decrease trying new
>stuff.
> >     Pity.
> >     I'm of the opinion that there haven't been any good songs written
>since (oh, say) 1980, but the rational part of me says that's simply not
>true--i just haven't HEARD any good songs because i haven't made the effort
>to LISTEN to new songs.  And why is that, pray tell?  Because the
>ever-decreasing samples of new music i happen to hear i don't like, so i
>gratuitously consign ALL that music to the rubbish heap.
> >     Anything unfamiliar is immediately suspect to the human mind.  We
>congregate into sects of the mind that discard any noncongruent elements,
>but this lump in the landscape of the human logic may not be a good thing 
>to
>have, for any reason.  Still, it's understandable, if not necessarily
>beneficial.
> >     And, in fact, the converse can be true.  A lot of young folks know a
>lot about music since 1980, but they don't know anything about some of the
>great songs written and performed well in the 1960's, 1940's, 1920's, etc.
>This is because they don't listen to songs or performers of that era.
> >     What to do?
> >     One of my favorite writers (whom i discovered while writing my
>dissertation), Alfred North Whitehead, said that ""An unflinching
>determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of
>preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion."  So
>we need to steel our nerves and grit our teeth and wade into new stuff 
>every
>so often.  We also need to PUSH our music that we play and like in front of
>crowds of younger folks, 'cause they will like some of it, given to chance
>to hear it.
> >     In other words, try it, you'll like (some of) it.
> >
> >     Dan
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