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Oftentimes, a musician says or plays exactly what you're feeling, sometimes so perfectly that you could swear they'd read your mind. When that happens, you can't help but identify with it.
This will probably make less sense to me tomorrow. Cough syrup is kicking in.
that seems like a brash generalization. music and the arts in general, particularly the performing arts have always had a cathartic effect on people. A large point of most art is to relate to the audience and some methods are simply more effective than others while some have certainly changed.
I would say that in my experience, the unwillingness to be affected by art is indicitive of an unwillingness to show vulnerability as we've feminized the arts and made it "unacceptable" for an assertive or masculine personality to be affected.
Post by Christopher Shawn on Feb 4, 2008 10:43:29 GMT -5
There are several reasons why music is an effective medium for articulating identity. Certain musicians write music that not only seem to represent a lifestyle but a culture. Take your punk rock or your early hip hop. Stereotypes used to dominate the world of music, if you listened to Motley Crue, chances were you liked cocaine. Whatever. Id say with the spread of the internet like fire, people are getting exposed to music like they never have before. Its gotten to the point where the majority of people cant be dropped into a stereo type. For instance I love 3 6 mafia, but I also love Dokken. If that makes any sense.
Id say at one time music was a great tool for identifying a person or a personality, but not so much anymore.
Id say that music has emotional effects on everybody wether they know it or not. Some people let those effects permeate themselves more than others. Some songs/albums/musicians etc....will always have the ability to make my man parts erect. I think Ive lost my train of thought.
Darth - I agree with you. It's easy to try to put someone into a box based on the music he listens to, but it's not always true.
I also have a problem with people completely dismissing an entire genre of music. Back when I did online dating, many guys tried to use music as a way of figuring out if we would get along and those who did always dismissed me because I don't have a favorite genre. Sure, rock in all forms is my go-to, but I'll listen to country, pop, disco, rap, jazz, whatever if it's a good song.
Of course, then I could fee like I was dismissing those guys because they weren't able to open up to new things
When I was younger, I used music to define me, and those around me. I felt as though it a quite telling way to gauge one's identity or personality but as I have gotten older, I have seen how multi-dimensional people are. I would find a person shallow that only read crime novels or chick lit, as would I find someone who stuck to one genre of music to be very one-dimensional.
My iTunes has schizophrenia, and when people meet me, they often assume I am into different music than I actually like.
Music is so amazing and so primal. Every society used music for celebration, for ritual, to tell stories. I love that as music changes, it's heart is the same primal beat that moves us through our life. Be it rock, country, electronica, heck even Celine Dion (don't smite me ya'll; she is considered important or talented to some folks out there) there is something at the core of this music that pulls it all together.
And that is why Bonnaroo is awesome - people all over the country pulled together to BFE for the purpose of music; different types of acts drawing different types of people who all share the same core passion.
Woah, super hippie thought while sitting at my office desk!
