{"id":2816,"date":"2014-10-23T00:23:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T22:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2014-10-23T00:23:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T22:23:54","slug":"on-not-being-a-music-hater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/10\/23\/on-not-being-a-music-hater\/","title":{"rendered":"On Not Being a Music Hater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Gantz &#8211; <a href='https:\/\/medium.com\/@sixfoot6\/getting-out-of-the-woods-a-primer-on-not-being-a-music-hater-fc4c46d4dde0'>Getting Out of the Woods: A Primer on Not Being a Music Hater<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/links\/archive\/2014\/10\/index.shtml\">waxy.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI like music. All different types of music. There are so many kinds! You should feel free to listen to whatever music <strong>speaks<\/strong> to you. I do.<\/p>\n<p>But the hard thing about music (and all types of art) is that <strong>speak<\/strong> can mean something different for every genre, artist, and album. The emotional, tonal, and verbal vocabulary of heavy metal is almost nothing like the vocabulary of jazz. The intention and cultural contexts differ. The listening experience goals for fans of hip-hop may be at odds with what a classical music-lover wants out of a great symphony.<\/p>\n<p>And that means that it often requires intellectual\/emotional openness and very close listening (or, like, dancing) to understand what a piece of music is getting at, what language it\u2019s speaking, what feelings it wants to evoke\u2014even who its target audience might be\u2014before we can fairly judge what\u2019s successful or unsuccessful about it.<\/p>\n<p>That may all seem obvious. But as a consequence of these basic language differences, it\u2019s really easy to criticize or dismiss work that falls outside a musical dialect we\u2019re comfortable with, or the role music currently plays in our lives.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Gantz &#8211; Getting Out of the Woods: A Primer on Not Being a Music Hater (via waxy.org) I like music. All different types of music. There are so many kinds! You should feel free to listen to whatever music speaks to you. I do. But the hard thing about music (and all types of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/10\/23\/on-not-being-a-music-hater\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Not Being a Music Hater&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}