----- "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com a écrit :
There are "naughty" pieces by Mozart that have survived the ages, regardless of past Mozart scholars who have excluded them from their catalogues of the "complete" works of Mozart. It may have been ignored for a bit, but the cult of genius generally trumps the opportunistic desire to destroy art.
We know Mozart because he has his pretty face on candy boxes, like F.Z. used to joke.
Anyway, your point that "it's not art anymore, art IS killed" is clearly false. Imagine a tyrant who declares that the only suitable music is a) by Beethoven and b) in C minor. It's certainly a travesty that anything by Haydn or David Bowie would be banned, as well as Beethoven's 6th Symphony, but it surely remains a fact that Beethoven's 5th is still a great symphony, regardless of the tyrant's endorsement.
There are plenty of pieces of music that sell very well in times of nationalist fervor, or in general. But it's sheer confusion to say that these pieces _aren't_ art for that reason. That's misdirected anger; the real problem is that other pieces are excluded because they either don't fit easily into a category, or they present an alternative viewpoint that sits uncomfortably with general opinion (i.e., dissident music).
-Jonathan
The problem is really actual, because it's related with this post-industrial period, where almost anything could falsified, or duplicated, where the main concept is about brain eating with a perpetual flow of those (duplicated&falsified) informations through almost all media, also used by "dissident people", who actually would be represented by rappers, or DJ's.
Here we have a kind of example of the musical continuity imaginated by E. Varese where the musicians are removed to give the auditor always the same product.
It's just a matter of time for anything individually created to be completely removed from the mainstream, and replaced by a logo, a lobby, a brain firmware.
Kokorokara
Patrice Colet