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grokadile
All art has a worldview.
Most are not mine.
As a kid (ohsomanyyearsago),
When I listened to music it was all about me.
Nothing else was significant:
I either identified with it,
Or did not.
(This is NOT a poem, just silly line breaking.)
Now, as a doddering old man,
I'm able to listen to and experience art sympathetically:
Sometimes I will not have experienced what the author or performer is
expressing,
Or will be beyond it,
But I can still grok the emotion, the theme, the thing behind it.
I could be moved by Live's questioning of Christianity,
In compassion for the intense experience that such questioning is.
I can hear a really sad love song and be moved not because I'm sad about
love,
But because I care for someone who's going through that now.
And sometimes the underlying emotion or question or theme
Will be more powerful than the explicit theme, as
On the day when "Sleep Baby Jane" made me weep for a friend
Who had just died.
On the other hand, propaganda just isn't beautiful, and that,
More than straightup worldview,
Makes me turn down my radio.
The artists who are great do something besides straight worldview,
Straight propaganda.
Down with Amy Grant. Up with Sam Phillips, etc.
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