Is it actually kind of good rich kids waste their life with music instead of doing anything material that adversely affects people? Yes, these people ruin any music scene they infiltrate but it feels like damage control compared to what they could have done otherwise.
I was poor and starting my freshman year at music conservatory at 22 years old, wasnt even a leftist, but even then I knew that music was kind of worthless. Music as a metaphysical healing force is neoliberal thought, music is the thread that knits communities but is essentially useless in a place without community.
But this kind of thought only serves to make libs feel good about themselves for choosing something entirely selfish rather than something useful like say be a doctor or teacher.
Whats that
Book from the 90’s by a musicologist who seems like he was hiding his power level in post Cold War academia. Basically he just lays out what you’ve been saying in this thread hah. The crux of the book is that we have reified “music” and that we should be thinking about music as a process involving all participants and that it is basically a bedtime story for adults, reinforcing the values of those in power.
Boom vindicated
It just seems stupid to have some people who are master x 10 of music and then a large populace who are tone deaf, cant read music or cant listen to anything with four on the floor at 120bpm,
But if u say this too u hurt alot of peoples feelings, how do you get across to otherwise intelligent people that they may have been failed in ways they fail to consider
The revolution will be pure vibes
Im impervious to capitalist societies conditioning despite growing up in it without any outside reference