Cultural observations are, as often as not, personal matters.
Formal analysis of these issues is of no concern to anyone but the artist. The academician regards them disdainfully, the lay person has no interest whatsoever, and the active music listener exhibits little more than subjective, emotional connectivity to the arts of sound. Such things as aesthetic value and purpose are outside these areas of bias.
This is natural. It is the artist as composer for whom these cultural forces determine the existential necessity for sustained effort.
Formal analysis of these issues is of no concern to anyone but the artist. The academician regards them disdainfully, the lay person has no interest whatsoever, and the active music listener exhibits little more than subjective, emotional connectivity to the arts of sound. Such things as aesthetic value and purpose are outside these areas of bias.
This is natural. It is the artist as composer for whom these cultural forces determine the existential necessity for sustained effort.
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