Is this just a generalization... or do you find that those who love classical music...?

Question

... tend to find no musical value in genres such as rap and hip-hop?

I mean, if you think about it, it's a far drop from classical, which in all honesty is the pinnacle of musical form, to rap, which is (in my opinion) a travesty and a blight on the airwaves and media.

Don't get me wrong, I love folk music, and enjoy classic rock and some heavy metal. I can even get through most country songs without gagging too much. When it comes to rap, hoewever, my brain shuts down.

Answer 1

I love classical music, but I also like a variety of other types. I think that my knowlege of classical music helps me to understand other types of music, and even the other way around.

I do agree with you about rap, for the most part. I would be loath to say that something is not music most of the time, but I honestly just don't think that rap qualifies. It's some kind of an art form (maybe), but I don't think of it as music at all.

Answer 2

this is definitely not authentic. element approximately it this manner. What are the undemanding denominators between good classical music and good rock music? the two in many cases require complicated layering, countless potential, inventiveness and prepare to play. comparing classically and operatically experienced singers, the two require an incredible volume of stamina and skill to be waiting to hold particular notes so as that they sound good even below rigidity. And, maximum heavily, the two good rock music and good classical music placed across a distinctive emotion and make the listener sense some thing. I, via ways, am maximum unquestionably an aficianado of the two.

Answer 3

In the fifties rock and roll's ability to infuriate the elders was most of its appeal! Hip hop similarly knows whom it offends and is comfortable with that.

I can imagine hip hop that I can really enjoy - and there are rare instances in which a hip hop record's appeal makes it past my disinclination to the style, owing to the personality of the speaker or the potency of the message, or sometimes just the happy collage of sampled elements. Sometimes a real generosity of spirit emerges, sometimes a trenchant wit, or an obviously keen ear for sound or rhythm.

But most of the hip hop I hear is from a world I don't want to be in, a form of expression made of elements I avoid intuitively: boasting, threatening, violence, gender tyranny. (I don't doubt they are as integral to the artist's realm as daffodils were to Wordsworth.) Rapping came up as a competitive expression in a proscribed social order where I would not last a week. Stardom in this world, just as in that of the concert hall, is subject to irrational and unfair accidents of weather and circumstance, and talent level is seldom the deciding factor.

From my vantage point we are lucky there is any commercial music at all that we can really embrace. (If I saw an ad for it I'm bound to resist it.) But when I'm riding to a gig with bandmates and De La Soul comes up in the shuffle, their discomfort is louder than even their disdain. I usually have to skip to the next track, out of pity.

We like to think we have feelings and thoughts but I keep finding evidence that they have us! In high school I hated all the music the kids who bullied listened to, and the guys who wolf whistled my sister. If you think our musical tastes are primarily aesthetic I would suggest you're hiding from yourself.

Imagine what resentments the choral Ode To Joy might bring up in a kid from a tough neighborhood. What pictures do you think it conjures? Might it not evoke an authoritarian order bent on his oppression? Or at the very least a world in which he has no place and nothing to offer?

If I'd known before becoming a musician how rarely success results from a high level of musicality I would have skipped the trying to make it phase entirely. The artists that succeed in capturing the imagination of the public do so largely on the basis of emotional theater of some kind, as opposed to musicality. Emotional theater gives the non-musician a way to identify with the performance. A favorite singer, especially, lives for a fan more like an animus or an avatar than as a creator of expressive works. People bond with their ideas of the artists they follow, and the relationship is without much basis in reality. Again, it is so rarely about the music itself when it comes to pop music success.

Please forgive my rambling! Thank God I ran out of words just now.

Answer 4

It is not just people who like classical music who don't like rap. Most people don't - go into general music rooms on Yahoo or Paltalk and you will often find a statement 'all kinds of music except rap'. Rap is a niche genre.

Answer 5

I do think it is true. I have never met anybody who loves classical music and rap. All classical music lovers I know can't stand rap or hip-hop.

Answer 6

It's probably not a generalization, but a truth. I, however, enjoy all types of music, even rap. I believe that music falls into two categories, good and bad.

Answer 7

Yes, I agree for the most part. Few classical enthusiasts I've known will stand for rap very long.

Answer 8

i am a huge rap fan but i can truly and from an unbiased viewpoint see why you feel the way you do. for starters hiphop and rap ar e2 separate tings. hiphop is a beautiful artform. hipshop is a culture. it is about expression, rhythem and storytelling. rap is 50 cent.lol. kidding but seriosuly rap is words that rhyme that white executives tell black artists to perform for money that lack integrity and substance.

Answer 9

I'm with ya. Rap just wont register, unless it is a video and there's sexy girls, in which case you enjoy the view - not the music.

Answer 10

I dont either, & i listen to contemporary & classical music.
Maybe we just dont speak the language?

but , i've lived this long without it, so i doubt if i will change.

& i think it's usually assosicated w/crime. very many of the songs portray it.