Post by blue tigers on Mar 27, 2007 9:43:42 GMT -5
padreromero said:
I've had some irate discussions about folks who consider rap music unsophisticated.You look at even the messiest of modern rap, something produced by the beasty boys or Dr. Dre, and you can find quite easily that all the rules they followed in the 18-19th century (Which, for some reason, produced all the "smart" music) are still there. In fact, outcast's most recent album is more traditional than a maverick like Haydn.
Rap's lyrics may not convey a lot...I've even shown up my music teacher on this...you have to ask yourself, what's the meaning behind Beethoven's 5th symphony, or Motzart's many, many piano concertos...music doesn't have to convey meaning...
And all the architectural rules (walls, door, roof) of a modern bidonville shack:
www.lavoixdunord.fr/site/albums/bidonville/pop2.shtml
are the same as the ones employed in the 18-19th century architecture:
www.khm.at/homeE107.html
Sophistication does not come with the rules, it comes with what you do with the rules.
Another example. Mathematics is a big tautology reducible to five set theory axioms plus modus ponens, but there is some difference in sophistication between accountant's arithmetics and differential equations. Probably there are math domains order of magnitudes more sophisticated than differential equations, but I am not a sophisticated mathematician.