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Originally Posted by thegurgi
Is our pop music how we want our culture to be viewed 1000's of years from now. Are people going to be learning about Britney Spears in Culture classes in the year 3,000 (if our culture survives that long). The testament to great art and masterpieces is that it spans decades afterwards. I doubt this genre of music is good enough to make it that far. In fact i have a hard time imagining what the music of these years will be capsulized into even 50/100 years from now.
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Quite interesting question here. What remains from the music of the late 20th century and the time being? On the other hand - what do we know of music common people liked in the 18th century. They hardly sung Bach in the streets! What remains from popular arts at all during the centuries? Maybe it was never really acknowledged and perhaps it will never be. Perhaps exactly the 20th and 21st century turn the view with it's very diverse and creative entertainment music. Who knows?
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Originally Posted by thegurgi
but i do believe that Pop Music is an art form. A heavily commercialized art form, but art none-the-less.
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Arts was always a commercial product. Formerly an elite paid the artists, made them produce artwork for them, today in democratic times it's the whole people. In the old times the sovereigns made competitions between artists for public amusement like the famous one between Haendel and Scarlatti. The rulers of the hundreds of princedoms of those times advertized their artists and they bid huge amounts of money to get an artists exclusively in their country. We don't have numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if the sums were comparable with the sums of today.
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Originally Posted by thegurgi
The word "Artist" and the term "Art" is reserved for Picasso, Mozart and etc and other people considered to be in the "high art" classification.
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That's because authorities and specialists decomposed artwork in it's components and found...oh, what did they find? Something where they could give school marks, from excellent to dilettante. Fortunately an artist doesn't need experts to create his artwork, who tells him how he has to do it , sothat it's artistically valuable.