Comments on: Search and you’ll find… http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2006/01/25/search-and-youll-find/ Roger Bourland writes about music and life Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:47:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Rosa http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2006/01/25/search-and-youll-find/#comment-127 Rosa Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:47:06 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2006/01/25/search-and-youll-find/#comment-127 UCLA may be less than fertile ground, but the strengths in respectable schools often are more tangible. Are we facing a culture that is unable to inculcate music with the questions we pose? UCLA may be less than fertile ground, but the strengths in respectable schools often are more tangible. Are we facing a culture that is unable to inculcate music with the questions we pose?

]]> By: Roger Bourland http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2006/01/25/search-and-youll-find/#comment-126 Roger Bourland Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:44:20 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2006/01/25/search-and-youll-find/#comment-126 I would love to do that at UCLA, but our -- otherwise progressive musicology faculty -- won't have it. I think that students coming in as Freshman look at early music as ethnomusicology, ie. the music is just as foreign as Ghanaian drumming! I would love to do that at UCLA, but our — otherwise progressive musicology faculty — won’t have it. I think that students coming in as Freshman look at early music as ethnomusicology, ie. the music is just as foreign as Ghanaian drumming!

]]> By: Rosa http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2006/01/25/search-and-youll-find/#comment-120 Rosa Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:07:33 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2006/01/25/search-and-youll-find/#comment-120 <p>Perhaps the music of last century and that of the blossoming 21rst could be taught backwards. The music often has a logic that owes much to a nonlinear trajectory.</p> <p>Adés, of course, has a stake in our culture, yet Pulp hasn't. Zorn is anthologized in Strickland, but My Bloody Valentine plays in the background of Lost In Translation. I'm not convinced that the cross-pollenation of musics could be successful over time. </p> Perhaps the music of last century and that of the blossoming 21rst could be taught backwards. The music often has a logic that owes much to a nonlinear trajectory.

Adés, of course, has a stake in our culture, yet Pulp hasn’t. Zorn is anthologized in Strickland, but My Bloody Valentine plays in the background of Lost In Translation. I’m not convinced that the cross-pollenation of musics could be successful over time.

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