NP Scientists start accounting for taste...

[Phil Wise]

Basically nonsense, IMO.  What is pop music?  What is classical?  Where does
John Cage sit vis a vis Miles Davis?  George Winston?  What are the
listening habits of one listener to the other?  How much of music's value is
purely intellectual anyway?  etc?

What I didn't like was the loaded nature of the assumptions (despite the
silly disclaimer, which, to quote MC Paul Barman, "gets academic and smart
confused").  It's enough to make me want to see universalisal cultural
constructionalism!  At least some historicising would help place some
parameters around the sloppy thought on display...

Phil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <DMillison at ftmg.net>
To: "Pynchon-L (E-mail)" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 8:38 AM
Subject: NP Scientists start accounting for taste...


>
> "What this may mean is that you require more grey matter to appreciate
> classical music and that you don't need so much grey matter to appreciate
> pop music, so as you lose grey matter your taste in music changes
> accordingly," said Dr Persaud.
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/music/newsid_1405000/1405449.
> stm
>
>
> ....no word yet on their research into taste in films or literature...
>