Blues vs classical - was: Re: Subject: [Harp-L] The name "blues"



On 6/4/2014 2:33 AM, EGS1217@xxxxxxx wrote:
'Formal' music education is all well and good--and I'm certainly not
knocking it but to my mind nothing touches as deeply or beats hearing someone
expressing their innermost feelings through their music.

I grew up on a steady diet of blues, soul, and gospel, and I've been privileged enough to meet and work with some of the world's finest players in the genre (and others). But I have to say that the notion that a blues (or jazz, or folk, or whatever) musician is somehow expressing deeper or more closely held feelings through their playing than players in any other genre is misguided at best, and insulting at worst. I've never met or worked with a good musician who didn't feel what they were playing, regardless of genre. To suggest that improvised genres are somehow "truer" than classical genres is on a par with the suggestion that "untrained" musicians are somehow lesser musicians than classically trained players.


Crux of the issue: There's a reason Baskin Robbins sells 31 flavors.



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