From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Mar 27 2005 - 02:56:15 BST
Erin:
> Platt,
>
> I agree a lot of rock-n-roll songs are associated to sex but still can't
> agree calling "the beat" of rock-n-roll sexual (what is 'the beat' that
> they ALL share?).
I refer you to the quotes about the rock beat that I shared in a recent
post. (See below)
> Rock-n-roll is more than just the beat--- If it was
> just "the beat" why bother spending so much money on all the other hoopla
> to get a sexual message across?
Nobody every claimed that rock was just the beat.
> This kind of reminds me the part of ZAMM
> where Pirsig talks about when people ask why he smokes---there is a
> difference between controlling the biological level and eliminating it.
> When I listen to many rock-n-roll songs it might not be high intellecutal
> activity (other songs like Dylan and Leonard Cohen really make me think so
> not so quick to agree there) BUT we ALL enjoy biolgoical activities that
> are not intellectually stimulating . Why pick one as being the root of
> degenercy in America?
There are many roots of degeneracy in America. Rock is just one. The
largest root Pirsig describes in detail in Chapter 24 of Lila -- the
amorality of SOM..
> What makes NYC the most dynamic place on earth may have a bit to do with
> rock-n-roll don't you think?
You'll have to explain the special connection you see between rock and
NYC.
Platt
> "Rock music is sex. The big beat matches the body's rhythms" -- Frank Zappa
> of the Mothers of Invention
>
> "An incessant beat does erode a sense of responsibility in much the same
> way as alcohol does. You feel in the grip of a relentless stream of sound
> to which something very basic and primitive in human nature responds." --
> David Winter, "New Singer, New Song"
>
> "We respond to the materiality of rock's sounds, and the rock experience is
> essentially erotic." -- Simon Frith, "Sound Effects"
>
> Mostly, the appeal is it's relentless beat. It is perhaps the most kinetic
> sound since the tom-tom or the jungle drum. Its appeal, one 16-year-old
> girl frankly admits, 'is sex-but don't print that; my mother would hit
> me.'" -- "Time" magazine
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