[Dixielandjazz] The 100 most important American Songs of the20thCentury

[Bill Biffle]

I think the point of Cage was to make us examine what we thought music was.
If we decided that it was what we thought it was before we heard/saw him,
then OK.  If we thought we broadened the definition of music, then OK, too.

Lots of good thought has been provoked by iconoclasts like Cage through the
years.   

Bill Biffle
Duke City Jazz Band
Albuquerque, New Mexico USA

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Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 7:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] The 100 most important American Songs of
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In a message dated 9/13/04 6:05:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jazzboard at hotmail.com writes:

> It is either funny or it is shit depending on your mood at the moment. It 
> is 
> NOT music and if you think it is you need a reality check.  No amount of 
> pretension and cerebrating can elevate the absurd to the profound.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> 

That is often what you get when you try to mix ART & Music, and some of it
is 
merely called ART for Art's Sake, and more thanlikely because Art got a
Grant 
or a commission to create his wonderful work of Art.   That's what folks
with 
MBA's & PHD's in Liberal Arts do.

There is an entire festival of this kind of stuff going on in New York.  It 
just does not get any weirder than this.
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