How important is music to our culture?

[retyopy]

Spoiler: totally irrelevant

I hate titles. So much. It may be just because I suck at them, but I still hate them, and that's all I know. I also hate spoken words. They're so irritating. Oh, and you know who else I hate? I hate you, Dave. Yes, you, the one reading this. That Dave. Yes, I'm pointing at you! Don't act innocent. No, not you, I'm pointing at Dave!

Right, on with the thread.

Erm... Not much else to say, really. How important is music? How has it changed us? And is that crazy rock & roll really ruining our youngsters and turning them into crazy punks? Yes. Yes it is.

[sub][sub]psst! You! Over there! No, not you Dave, I hate you. Yeah, that bit about rock and roll ruining the youngsters? That was what we enlightned space people call [HEADING=1]SARCASM.[/HEADING].[/sub][/sub]

Oy, escapist, fix my thing! You're clipping it off on the end!

 

[NEREVAR117]

People are not people without culture or music. It is extremely important.

 

[retyopy]

People are not people without culture or music. It is extremely important.

So.. Just to be clear, you're saying that music is important, not just culture, right?

 

[Radeonx]

People are not people without culture or music. It is extremely important.

So.. Just to be clear, you're saying that music is important, not just culture, right?

Music makes up a big part of culture.

OT: Very important.

 

[The Minstrel Knight]

People are not people without culture or music. It is extremely important.

So.. Just to be clear, you're saying that music is important, not just culture, right?

Music makes up a big part of culture.

OT: Very important.

Music and culture go together like oxygen and nitrogen. Although I would hardly consider what some stuff floating out there on the airwaves now is considered "music."

 

[DarthFennec]

Music is a gigantic part of the way any culture expresses itself. It's gigantically important.

And my name's not Dave.

 

[retyopy]

People are not people without culture or music. It is extremely important.

So.. Just to be clear, you're saying that music is important, not just culture, right?

Music makes up a big part of culture.

OT: Very important.

Music and culture go together like oxygen and nitrogen. Although I would hardly consider what some stuff floating out there on the airwaves now is considered "music."

Hey, not all of it is bad. Most of it, I'd say. Most.

 

[Clifford Reeder]

Music isn't so much important as it is common. Rhythm and beats have been explored and exploited for as long as man might remember, no matter how popular music became from one era to another.

So, to paraphrase, yes, music is important, but at the same time, inevitable.

 

[CODE-D]

Music isnt really important, no.
Society's not gonna break down if the music industry falls out even though record co. want you to think that.
You can always make your own in your head if it bothers you.

 

[tj1212]

Yes and no, music that expresses an actual point about something is benificals but when you get artists who do freaky things to get attention or when they promote negative sterotypes then is bad.

 

[GamerKT]

How important is music to my American culture? Not very important at all, considering that most people exclusively listen to the top 25 and then switch to the next batch a few weeks/months later.

I'd be considered part of the counterculture. I just... "find" music online. Like, I'd just be exposed to some random song somehow and then devour that band's discography. Happened with Throw The Fight and Holy Roman Empire.

(Not a hipster. It's just that I don't even listen to the radio, yet the overexposure has resulted in me recognizing and actually getting sick of songs that I don't even listen to. Also, fuck our radio stations for spamming the same 10 songs all day, which I only know from being in the car with others.)

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

Sir, as a Dave, I find myself severely insulted. I have never done anything to you, nor to your family. There was that small incident with your third cousin, but I apologized and he said it was OK.

OT: It seems that humans are hard-wired for music. There doesn't seem to be any portion of human history when we weren't making music and we always seem to have the need to discover even more means as quickly as we can invent them.

Perhaps it is tied to our hard-wired sense of pattern recognition. Perhaps it is simply one of those fundamental aspects of the universe. You know, like electromagnetism or irony.

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

People are not people without culture or music. It is extremely important.

So.. Just to be clear, you're saying that music is important, not just culture, right?

Music makes up a big part of culture.

OT: Very important.

Music and culture go together like oxygen and nitrogen. Although I would hardly consider what some stuff floating out there on the airwaves now is considered "music."

Hey, not all of it is bad. Most of it, I'd say. Most.

Nah, almost all of it is bad.

OT: Music is to culture what carbon is to Earth's lifeforms. Music also keeps life livable, in a way. Backround noise when you need it. We'd probably be insane without music. Also, culture would suck. Also, we need carbon. Very important.

So, yeah, we need carbon, because it's a major part of our culture.

 

[SilentCom]

I love music, I love history, I love food, and guess what? They're all part of what makes a culture. I guess I love culture then.