Composers Forum is a daily web log that allows invited contemporary composers to share their thoughts and ideas on any topic that interests them--from the ethereal, like how new music gets created, music history, theory, performance, other composers, alive or dead, to the mundane, like getting works played and recorded and the joys of teaching. If you're a professional composer and would like to participate, send us an e-mail.
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Rodney Lister’s post (below) is fascinating for many reasons, but there’s one way of summarizing it that I find particularly haunting:
1930: no one knew there was any such thing as American Folk music.
2005: no one knows there is any such thing as American Art music.
Of course, these are broad generalizations, but they speak to a common blind spot in our cultural self-awareness. Why can’t the most pluralistic society on the planet imagine itself creating great music of every kind?
posted by Lawrence Dillon
8:54 PM
