It's too bad you were downvoted to oblivion, but a more reasoned response might have nurtured more conversation.
Anyway, having read lots of social theory on music, I'll bite. Go ahead and tell more. Specifically, death relative to what culture?
It's my opinion music as a practice before the sedentary age of agriculture will probably never be recovered. It is currently just as subject to capitalistic practice as health care and everything else. I don't see Big Data's leveraging of music for profit as being significantly worse or better than previous generations' exploitations of music.
In fact, I blame music for leading to its own demise. I believe music helped transmit the patterns and information which helped us become sedentary. I believe today's music rarely, if ever, soothes or nurtures us. There is another, truer form of music which attains that, but we have either lost it entirely or it is a well-kept secret.
I feel like I'm drowning in good music now thanks to the net. Soothed, nurtured, confused, educated, lifted...there's no limit to the number of verbs that the plethora of music I have access to now does to me.
Anyway, having read lots of social theory on music, I'll bite. Go ahead and tell more. Specifically, death relative to what culture?
It's my opinion music as a practice before the sedentary age of agriculture will probably never be recovered. It is currently just as subject to capitalistic practice as health care and everything else. I don't see Big Data's leveraging of music for profit as being significantly worse or better than previous generations' exploitations of music.
In fact, I blame music for leading to its own demise. I believe music helped transmit the patterns and information which helped us become sedentary. I believe today's music rarely, if ever, soothes or nurtures us. There is another, truer form of music which attains that, but we have either lost it entirely or it is a well-kept secret.