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Re:The Case for Challenging Music by codeulike on Thursday November 30, 2023 @03:08PM (#38478406)
Culturally curious people, young and old, seem to accept that a “challenging” painting—or modern dance work, or play, or independent film—can be exciting, mind-expanding, really cool, and sort of out there precisely because it’s challenging. Why in classical contemporary music do so many people equate challenging with intimidating—or even infuriating?

Music is different to other art forms.

Not everyone likes dance, not everyone likes paintings, not everyone likes theatre, not everyone likes sculpture, not everyone likes poetry.

But EVERYONE likes music.

Its fundamental. So when its challenging music, its challenging in a more fundamental way than a painting can be challenging.

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Re:The Case for Challenging Music by mostlylurks on Thursday November 30, 2023 @04:27PM (#38479411)
No, not everyone likes music [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_anhedonia

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Re:The Case for Challenging Music by Almondsetat on Thursday November 30, 2023 @06:01PM (#38480476)
The fact that it's a medical condition just proves GP's point
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Re:The Case for Challenging Music by mostlylurks on Thursday November 30, 2023 @06:46PM (#38480911)
Even if you were to label it as such, how would that prove the original point? Labeling a trait as a medical condition does not make it vanish. If that alleged 3-5% of the population does not share the trait that you claim is universal, then that trait is simply not universal, regardless of what status or judgement you decide to assign to whatever commonality those alleged 3-5% of the population have. The two matters are completely orthogonal.
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Re:The Case for Challenging Music by leephillips on Thursday November 30, 2023 @07:21PM (#38481223)
Well put. Also, Vladimir Nabokov famously did not like music, or perhaps more accurately, was completely indifferent to it. I've never heard this ascribed to a medical condition. And I've met one or two people in my life who claimed not to like music.
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