On Mar 28, 9:24=A0am, Dana <dcarp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mar 26, 6:07 pm, QueBarbara <que.barbara.l...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:01:23 +0000, Peter Boulding
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> > >1. All Tomorrow's Parties - Velvet Underground and Nico
> > >2. My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains - Captain Beefheart
> > >3. Carey - Joni Mitchell
> > >4. Concerto for violin, oboe, strings and continuo in D minor, 2nd
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> > >- JS Bach
> > >5. Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen
> > >6. Every Time We Say Goodbye - Ella Fitzgerald
> > >7. Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac
> > >8. Fotheringay - Fair****t Convention
> > >9. I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
> > >10. Low Yo Yo Stuff - Captain Beefheart
> > >11. We Are The Ovaltineys - The Ovaltineys
> > >12. Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground
> > >13. Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
> > >14. Requiem, Offertoire - Faur=E9
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> > >Aaaaaaahh... That was good.
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> > Good list.
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> > Someone here mentioned that they didn't notice music, that it wasn't
> > that im****tant to them*. =A0That just boggles my mind; to me it's as
> > unfathomable as saying that *** or love isn't of any im****tance. =A0We
> > do live in a Golden Age of music. =A0Can you imagine living before
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> > was recorded music easily available? =A0If you lived in a remote area,
> > you might go months, or even years, without hearing music.
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> Well, but I think people made their own music more often. =A0People
> gathered around the piano at parties and sang. =A0Pa Ingalls whiled away
> long winter evenings on the prairie playing his fiddle. =A0People went
> caroling at Christmas. =A0They passed the guitar around the campfire, or
> played the harmonica. =A0Hard physical labor was lightened by working
> songs that fit the rhythm of the work. =A0(One of the more fascinating
> programs I saw at Mystic Sea****t was a demonstration of which sea
> chanteys fit the rhythm of which job.)
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> Yes, it's wonderful that we have infinitely more exposure to
> professional music than our ancestors, but I think that constant
> exposure has eroded the willingness to make music ourselves -- if we
> don't sound like those people on the radio, we're "no good," and
> anyway, why sing when you can pop in a CD or turn on your Ipod?
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> Similarly, what happened to dancing at home? =A0As recently as my teen
> years it was pretty common for people to dance at parties; books from
> the first half of the 20th century talk about "rolling up the rug" to
> dance. =A0I don't know anybody who dances at parties any more -- dancing
> is something you do at a club, or not at all.
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> I can't help but think that in some ways the proliferation of
> professional music has dampened individual musical expression.
Almost everyone I know is in a band.
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