File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1999/avant-garde.9903, message 27


Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 06:44:25 -0500
From: Barry Smylie <barrysmylie-AT-iname.com>
Subject: Re: REVIEW of "difference/indifference" - Roth & Katz


If, the post-Modern era allows for nuance of "style" that is visible in
archetecture of new homes and small businesse buildings between (say) western
New York and Maine; then it is virtually impossible to write in detail about
whole systems.

Some music is political and some music is not.... most music isn't.

>  As the practical and political questions concerning the role of aesthetics
> in the production of subjectivity (and identity)  come to the fore, the
> critical discourses  that  form around those  practices, such as music (not
> the mass culture kind,  which has long been the subject of sociological
> concern, but its other,) that have been represented as insular or
> autonomous, now reveal the complex reality of their subjects.  We now find
> within such forms of cultural production that the long proposed purity of
> the aesthetic experience which had been the heralded goal and triumph of
> modernist art constituted  a philosophical and ideological trope.  There
> lurked  within the aspiration and desire to attain direct experience beyond
> language and mediation, not only a metaphysical but also a symbolic  act of
> denial -- for this  non-reflective privileging of the sensuous as just a
> thing in itself conceals the nature of the construction, conditions, and
> order of perception that is affected by the social order.

Not everything can and or should be discribed in terms of mind.  The sensuality
of our bodies is "thinking" that cannot be translated into words.  Appreciation
of beauty (aesthetics) is a "longing" felt in the entire body.



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