Title: The Reception of New Music Today: A Response
Abstract:rovic raises many provocative questions about the generally negative response to contemporary He thus addresses the major reception problem in our century.1 Although modern technology has the capabili...rovic raises many provocative questions about the generally negative response to contemporary He thus addresses the major reception problem in our century.1 Although modern technology has the capability of disseminating music to everyone, it is not astonishing that these gadgets should fail to make everyone receptive to contemporary Glenn Gould's idealism notwithstanding,2 this technology seems to foster not the active listening to which Velimirovic refers later in his paper, but rather the use of music as what I call audible wallpaper. At the very outset of the discussion we encounter a misleading term-contemporary music. Is it true that the public (another troublesome word) does not enjoy contemporary music? Youths with their Walkmans, for instance, listen to rock music in all its manifestations, and these include the electronic sounds and dissonant language characteristic of modern concert Could it be that the technology has made the concert hall obsolete? Glenn Gould certainly thought so. In any event, the reception problem involves only the avant-garde, audacious, or new aspects of contemporary music, and we need to bear this distinction in mind.Read More
Publication Year: 1986
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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