Re: Limits of dance music as a musical form?

Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 19:18:39 -0700
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I'm not sure about that, DeRayMi. Even classical composers used dance music
such as waltzes and minuets as a basis for composition.
Most music in the world (probably only with the exception of some modern
classical music) has some kind of repeating form. Look at 12 bar blues--same
damn 12 bars repeating over and over and over. What can make that
interesting is what the improviser does with that--how he plays with those
12 bars. One can listen to endless choruses of a good improviser playing
blues, and never get bored with it.
The day has a repeating form--morning, afternoon, and night. Years have a
repeating form--the four seasons. Do you get bored with that repetition?
It's what you do with that form that counts, not the form itself.
Of course, if all you have been listening to is salsa, and you'd like to
expand your music listening experience, try some other types of music--jazz,
classical, music from other cultures, etc. That could give you a nice
change.
If you don't like "some of the particular sub-genres", don't listen to them.
"DeRayMi" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> Maybe because I haven't been dancing nearly enough lately, I think
> I've been more aware of the limits of dance music (and the dance music
> I listen to by far the most is Latin music, particularly salsa, but
> also other types). Sometimes I find myself thinking, somewhat bored,
> "Oh, it's another x." It's that rhythm again. Even when I like the
> stuff that gets poured into the form, I'm a little impatient with the
> form being (in some sense) the same each time.
>
> Maybe it's just that I don't like some of the particular sub-genres.