To reach the enormous markets of non-musical and half-musical and to conquer the growing prejudice of the truly musical" what are we going to do, educate this pleasure seeking rabble? There's Plato again agreeing that the excellence of music is measured by pleasure, but for this going out there playing You're a Dog-gone Daisy girl with its feet? Good God no, for them Plato rhymes with tomato, it can't be the pleasure of chance persons, he says, it's got to be music that delights the best educated of you get your poets composing to please the bad taste of their judges and finally the audience instructing each opther and that's what this glorious democracy's all about isn't it?
(It's better to create than destroy what's unnecessary)
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Agape Agape - pg. 14
Labels: Plato, William Gaddis
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