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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls
Pretty sure the "not real music" rant is a modern phenomenon and didn't happen back in the 80s or even 90s. I don't remember a single person saying that during my youth.
Devil music? Bad influence? sure. But no one accused them of not producing real *insert genre here*.
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It's kind of an old adage against more experimental artists. Back in 1902 (? Don't quote me on that date) Luigi Russulo premiered The Art of Noise and people were so upset by it 'not being real music' that a riot broke out. This happened at every one of his shows. A lot of John Cage's works, most notably 4'33" but also his tapeworks, were belittled as not being music either. Hell, even Bach was ridiculed by some critics as being to contrived and pointless to be music. Hip-hop was pretty different from the standards most people had for music at the time and some sucked up the new sound and others whined about the newest 'not music' in town.