warning: abstractification!
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, dj pie wrote:
quoted 4 lines i don't necessarily disagree with the statement that there are a lot> i don't necessarily disagree with the statement that there are a lot
> fewer women into idm--i just think it is pointless and possibly
> divisive to makea big deal out of it as a 'women are different than men'
> kind of thing.
i agree with you, dj pie. but this is an old debate and actually pretty
interesting, i think. not just girls vs. boys, but the question of "does
it matter who made/played the music?" for some marginalized types, it
does - if you're gay, and you've got a gay agenda, and you want to
push it through music, then it does matter. this is as divisive as it
would be for you to say "i'm making girl music," but in some cases, people
want this division in order to make a point, or to give voice to
people/ideas who normally don't get heard.
still, it is about music here and not politics.
a couple of gay students approached my music history professor wanting to
know if schubert was gay, because they thought they could hear it in his
music. to them, it did matter. i can't generally hear gayness or boynees
or girlness in music, but then i'm not really listening for it. turns out
schubert may have been gay after all, but i still don't hear his quartets
as "gay quartets." no point, really.
anyway, i'm just playing devil's advocate. i say let the art speak for
itself.
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