Re: [microsound] microsound as pop music

[Jethro <jethrokins@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Not sure this is true- e.g. the Quadrophenia liner
> notes are full of 
> extra-musical justifications. 

I did say 'tends'; there's always exceptions...

>You'll also have no
> trouble finding academic 
> papers analysing, say, Brian Wilson harmonic
> structures or other 
> inter-musical meaning in pop music. 

That doesn't count because (as you acknowledged) it's
after-the-fact analysis instead of the current
state-of-mind when it was written.  You can
academicize anything.  And they do.

>I'm not so interested in the
> pop/academic distinction- 
> microsound is strictly neither, it is what it is. 

But pop(ular) music sells millions of records,
generating huge revenues for corporations.  Academic
music is usually supported by grants, and is listened
to by a small group of listeners.  They are very, very
different. There is a distinction.



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