Everythingism
Waaaait a minute -- isn't it likely that each generation has viewed its present as a chaotic point? Isn't it only in retrospect that the winners and losers are sorted out, with the music lucky few who get remembered determining what is the characteristic sound of a particular time and place? Doesn't this hindsight impose a coherent narrative on events that were far more contradictory in reality?
No, I have to agree with M. LaVare. Even the obscure composers of the early 18th century, such as the guy with the really cool name, Johann Josef Fux, tend to sound like Bach or Handel. Far more tragically, the latter part of the century featured a bunch of pathetic Haydn wannabes. Today, there are more of us, we're richer, thus we can support a more diverse set of subcultures. So cry havock! And let slip the cats and dogs of divergent musical styles!
Tip o' the hat to ArtsJournal.
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
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