Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are two kinds of people. There are those that listen to classical music and those that...
...want to convince you that you should listen to classical music. Not because classical music is intrinsically superior to all other forms of musical expression, not because it is more serious or more profound and not because it is your duty, if you wish to become an educated citizen of the world, to acquire a smattering of "culture". It is probably because of people telling you things like that that you have never wanted to listen to classical music in the first place. They are the same ones who insist that you be able to rattle off composers and titles...
They're wrong. The only valid reason why you should listen to classical music is that it is enjoyable. It is fun. It can even be moving and inspiring...
Maybe you've never wanted to listen to classical music because of the image that these people project. When examined critically, though, their definition of classical music disintegrates...
This state of contrarians, Rhode Islanders will remind you, is prochoice because the mostly Italian Catholics don't listen to their mostly Irish priests...