Re: [LAU] re Subconscious Affecting Music

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:52:57PM -1000, david wrote:
> Brent Busby wrote:
>
>>> If the current system of complete bombardment and brainwashing is allowed
>>> to continue unchecked we are all complicit in the results.
>>
>> I don't mean to be offensive, but that does sound an awful lot like
>> what parents were saying when Elvis came out. :)
>
> I studied and played ragtime quite a bit. That was the "popular music"
> my grandmother loved when she was young. One time when I was playing
> some ragtime at her house, she came over and said, "Oh, you're playing
> that dirty ragtime music." That was what her parents had said about
> ragtime when it was popular!
>

Yes, wasn't it the music of whorehouses? The piano player would sit there in the parlor, striding away, while the gentlemen were waiting for appointments or flirting with the ladies.

-ken
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Received on Thu Sep 9 04:15:05 2010