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On 06/08/12 02:16, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Most people paying for listening to music aren't musicians

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> theirselfes. They neither are that (self-)educated that they need (or

> even are able to listen) to more complex music. Mass media have the

which is perhaps one of the huge changes in music in the last 60 or so years
... most popular music was played and sung by the listeners until then, the

ability to play something pre-recorded, here music that is not directly

connected to your own playing or singing, or at least someone in the room with

you, is really very recent in the development of music. Older popular music was

as much about the pleasure of reproducing it as it was about listening to it.
Simon

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