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Topic	Spock hears Beastie Boys Sabotage asks McCoy if it's 'classical music'
adjl 04/17/21 12:26:53 PM #13:	rjsilverthorn posted... Except the audience that is actually watching the joke are laypeople and even non-laypeople wouldn't get the joke if they used some made up term for it. The surface value of the joke ("lol he called a song from the 90's 'classical' that's so silly") is going to be apparent enough to laypeople, even if the subtler nuances of it (poking fun at the modern tendency to lump everything more than a century old into a single genre label regardless of actual period/genre definitions and obvious differences between pieces) are lost on people that don't know enough about music history to recognize that we do that. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:952933619] in Spock hear... [t:79408578]...</cite> <quote>rjsilverthorn posted... </cite> <quote>Except the audience that is actually watching the joke are laypeople and even non-laypeople wouldn't get the joke if they used some made up term for it.</quote> The surface value of the joke ("lol he called a song from the 90's 'classical' that's so silly") is going to be apparent enough to laypeople, even if the subtler nuances of it (poking fun at the modern tendency to lump everything more than a century old into a single genre label regardless of actual period/genre definitions and obvious differences between pieces) are lost on people that don't know enough about music history to recognize that we do that. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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