[Dixielandjazz] Post-Genre Music?

[Marek Boym]

I love poetry, but "modern" poetry is like "modern" jazz to my ears (I 
define the latter as "noise".
cheers,
Marek
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Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Post-Genre Music?


>
> Charlie my man:  I always admire your thought and input on these
> matters but for a 2007 opener mate you have outdone yourself, the
> following post is as profound as any I expect to see on this esteemed
> list of colleague all year :))
>
> Like you I have not followed Poetry, as a matter of fact I usually run
> in the opposite direction, :))
> just not usually my thing. a bit too Bohemian for my high energy
> tastes. :))
>
> everyone keep s trying t reinvent the wheel and often forgetting our
> influences that shaped our individual interpretations of music,
>  ( often mistaken for Originality) in the endless pursuit of something
> New and totally different :))
>
> How funny that the more original it becomes the more familiar it sound
> to something we have heard before :))
>
> Music ain't nothin' but a bunch of notes, it's what you do with them on
> any given date and time that counts!!
>
> Cheers, and Keep Swingin' any way that you like.  And if you find an
> agreeable audience for how you swing it more power to ya  !!
>
> Tom Wiggins
>
>
>
> Post-modernism as I understand it tried to make room for the
> diffuseness of contemporary arts like Post-Genre Poetry—and maybe, jazz
> since the 70s. I haven’t followed poetry that closely but it seems to
> me that what has happened in jazz is an openness to “genre-jumping,” as
> my son used to call it. And maybe what has happened is not so much an
> absence of new definable genres as it is a synthesis of familiar
> elements from existing genres--all those "fusions"--you name 'em.
>
> The recent changes aren't neat as the “traceable next step” theories
> that we’re accustomed too (and maybe, have accepted too readily) in the
> history of the arts. But in a way it’s nice to relax the compulsive
> category-making that we’ve inherited in Western society and experience
> all music as “just music,” as raw experience. We can even revisit the
> musics we’ve long known and bring a fresh, original mind to them.
>
> Charlie Suhor
>
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