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Comparing the arts is something I've never understood. Literature, music, cinema, etc. are all different things.\n Music is different because it can exist witho
by Crastlon 5y ago
Comparing the arts is something I've never understood. Literature, music, cinema, etc. are all different things.\n
Music is different because it can exist without it being recorded, literature, cinema, etc. can't. Non-recorded cinema is live theatre, non-recorded literature is live storytelling. Recorded and live music should be considered as two different things
- Apocryphon 5y agoLiterature preexists media in the form of oral tradition. Your arguments about the exceptionalism of music would invalidate the Odyssey. Your argument of recorded music vs. live music also doesn't make sense- why is a record more recorded than sheets music? If a piece of music is literally written down and can be replicated, it's no less recorded than the most pristine lossless sound file.
- tsimionescu 5y ago> Recorded and live music should be considered as two different things There is ample evidence you are simply wrong. Recorded music is replacing live music in every possible way. People play recorded music at their weddings and parties - once a staple of live musicians. People play recorded music while working - one of the main places where people used to hum and sing themselves. Where once one might pull out a guitar, today they are more likely to pull out a phone. Sure, live concerts still exist - but this is more like the difference between going to cinema vs watching a movie at home, or eating out at a restaurant vs cooking at home.