The rise of bourgeois introduced classical music to a much wider audience, but at the same time, screwed landed aristocrats, so they could no longer afford (not only financially, but also emotionally) to support artists like Beethoven on their own, or to hire Haydn with a full orchestra. But if you see this from a historical perspective, the “devaluation” of art is inevitable, and for centuries art constantly gained new values by taking advantage of new technology, so we are not living in a culture desert now, after everything that came after the industrial revolution. Lovecraft view of the universe more likeable than Stephen Hawking's). I partly agree with that, and I'm by no means a tech enthusiast (I find H.P.
Some of them, like Walter Benjamin did 75 years ago, argue that when art was rendered too easily accessible, its “aura” was lost. Deal with it.Īnd there's a lot of talk these days about the potential harm Spotify could do, or already have done, on the music industry, or even music itself. And when they determine a new distribution method or technology is more convenient than the previous one, therefore more people will adopt it and more profit (for them) will be generated, they will never step back because of the potential harm it could do to art. Entrepreneurs and technicians couldn't care less about these concerns, when they set out their business or research plans. I agree with Alex Ross that all these debates over whether classical music is dead or not, is a waste of time, because it will never change anything. To make that passage relevant in the 1920s, all you need to do is to change the last two objects to Jazz and gramophone 1960s, Beatles and TV and 2010s, smartphone and Spotify. But the anxiety over the supposedly dying classical music hasn't changed for a much longer time. That is the first paragraph of Greg Sandow's brilliant article, Why Classical Music Needs Rock & Roll, dates from 1996, which seems to be a long long time ago. Or maybe just reinventing its marketing, but in any case doing something to make it come alive - and assure its survival - in an age of O.J. "There's a lot of talk these days about reinventing classical music.
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