Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site harvard.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!tomczak From: tomczak@harvard.ARPA (Bill Tomczak) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Musical Prejudice Message-ID: <457@harvard.ARPA> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 00:43:57 EST Article-I.D.: harvard.457 Posted: Mon Oct 28 00:43:57 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 06:51:34 EST References: <27@pixel.UUCP> Reply-To: tomczak@harvard.UUCP (Bill tomczak) Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard Lines: 27 In article <27@pixel.UUCP> vsh@pixel.UUCP (vsh) writes: >OK music aficionados, what do you think of the following proposition: > > One's reaction to a given album/song/group is determined > more by what one has heard or read about the > album/song/group than by the actual music itself. > >To what extent do you agree or disagree, and why. Sure, we're all adults here, right? I know how to be totally objective. I'm not in high school anymore. So how come very often I find myself saying things or agreeing to things that a large number of the people around me also say and agree to? Do I surround myself with people who agree with me? Or do I let go of a certain amount of my autonomy to "get along". The more I look into this the more subtle I find the influences. Every once in awhile I make an effort to take an opposing viewpoint if for no other reason than to try and understand how things might look from another human being's vantage point. If your reaction to a question like this is to just write it off with no thought, I might suggest you really look at it over the next month or so. Maybe I have, in fact, stopped growing emotionally since high school. Well, I've always been kinda slow in some ways. I'll see you at the age of 60 and we can compare notes then..... bill tomczak@harvard.{HARVARD.EDU, UUCP}