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Originally Posted by Glice
I'm really enjoying your posts of late ni'k. I think there's a certain irony to people saying they don't like music journalism on a message board which has as its central nexus discussion about music.
I think it's a very conservative, antiquated aesthetics that wants to see music as a rarefied craft hermetically sealed off from external influences; often, there's so little going on in rock music that it's impossible to talk about anything but external influences. Writing like the above, while not entirely too my taste, definitely contributes more to our understanding (even if entirely negatively) than a vapid assertion of personal affection like 'oh, I just love it because it's good'. That's what 9-year-olds do.
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I don't think it's at all conservative or antiquated when recognizing that qualia is externally influenced in the sense that who we are is externally influenced. It's beyond personal affection when someone says "Oh, I just love it because it moves me." Of course, then once qualia moves from an impression to an expression, it becomes an external influence in itself that is involved in the external influences that originally spawned it. However, the locus of change remains in the individual by the virtue of who that individual is in both intellect and spirit. This is the commonality I see between the artist and the audience.