Cyrus

[jolly]

If TRP favors certain music (say, Charlie Parker's blues-drenched playing, in the Roseland Ballroom sequence), it's because he sees that music as living decidely in between high and low (across the divide or within the "excluded middle) and therefore symbolizing the non-binary approach that GR is always asking us to keep in mind.

-- Will

Your error is the prevalent lit. crit. theoretical one of refusing to ever commit to an ethical or political decision: you refuse to see that  TRP does, implicitly or explicitly, imply there is some causal connection, however imperceptible, between Beethoven's German bombast and the third reich...
 
and I am not sure about Guthrie, and I am not such a fan of that sort of primitive Dylanesque folkie stuff anyways --though Pynchon did have some connection to that scene through his pal Farina-- but in TRP's world a Bird does outrank Mozart or Ludwig Von, and more closely represents some form of musical and aesthetic  "truth" ....and he does seem to place the absurd, cartoon cacaphonies of Spike Jones  in that realm of approved aesthetics as well;  TRP's book are all about plurality, and "everything connects," but there are villains, malevolence,   "bad faith", bad politics and bad  art--whether BIlly Barf or Ludvig Von....

			
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