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Re: i kin ramble on this
> So when did we start confusing music with a social movement?
"The moral office and human function of art can be intelligently
discussed only in the context of culture."
Discussing not being moral but moral codes:
"Hence it is that art is more moral than moralities. For the latter
either are, or tend to be, consecrations of the status quo, reflections
of custom, reenforcements of the established order. The moral prophets
of humanity have always been poets even though they spoke in free verse
or by parable. Uniformly, however, their vision of possibilities has
soon been converted into a proclamation of facts that already exist and
hardened into semi-political institutions. Their imaginative
presentation of ideals that should command thought and desire have been
treated as rules of policy. Art has been the means of keeping alive the
sense of purposes that outrun evidence and of meanings that translate
indurated habit."
John Dewey, 1934
Art is where we transgress against those things that need to be
transgressed against. Sometimes art transgresses where we wish it would
not. That's another topic. The power to transgress is what I'm talking
about. We need it. Anytime the Man takes over art, it is a form of
oppression of the people.
Everything's political, baby.
we said we'd send letters,
Fred
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