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IanB
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Edited Dec 17, 2009, 16:09
Re: The Linguistics of Unsung
Dec 17, 2009, 16:06
The problem is when matters of taste are confused with matters of fact and people take differences of opinion / taste as assaults on, to be pretentious about it, their sense of self.

If we aren't changing our minds on a regular basis about all sorts of cultural stuff as our lives and the social context for those lives changes while our individual knowledge and experience base expands then there is a fair chance that we aren't really living with our ears open at all.

So being definitive and dogmatic is a dangerous game in rock n roll especially as the art form is really only a baby at what, a mere half a century old? The novel is around 540 years old. Cinema 120 years or something like that. Painting is old as the hills and the caves that are in them. Architecture not much younger.

Changing your mind and finding new things to love in old things you used to hate is part of the fun and it's way too soon to start sticking "All Time Great/Shite" tags on pop records. Though of course I do it all the time ....
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