Podcast Panel #11

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Richard Emsley - '...from swerve of shore to bend of bay'

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[Poll #1140876]

POLLS STILL OPEN: Keke Palmer! Natalia y la Forquentina! Avenged Sevenfold! and ending tomorrow Fleet Foxes!

POLL CLOSED: Trina ended up with a score of 6.44 with (I think) the highest NUMBER of votes so far (a still quite low 18).

HALL OF FAME: Lancelot Link's score of 7.2 is the highest (though it dipped after polls closed when dubdobdee voted.)

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Comments

[koganbot]

Not different modes of listening but different knowledge of what's going on in different circumstances (and this can pertain within pop as well, since not every listener "gets" all pop in the same way, since not all pop is the same or has the same conventions either).

But I would say that pop doesn't assume a listener who's attending to the story that's going on in the music (may be inattentive, may be attentive to the dance beats, may be singing along, may be using it as excitement to lure customers into one's Hot Topic franchise, but is less likely to think of herself as following along on the music's compositional or anti-compositional adventure) but rather people who are using music in a myriad of ways; whereas the assumption in classical going back to Beethoven is of a listener attending to the music and shutting off his own activity while he's doing so. Of course, this probably misrepresents the classical listener, but the classical listener is probably complicit in this misrepresentation, in that you don't get a lot of commentary on classical and on modern-day serious music that says, "This is really good, especially as mood music, and it also makes a real good social marker and will impress the chicks."