Club Culture and the Ape
I came to conclude that contemporary audiences are unconfortable dancing on man-made music. Consider club culture. It started because it was impossible to bring the beatles to ashdod, basically. Then it became obvious that it was a better deal since it was cheaper to have only 1 person in charge of the music. Then, gradually, people got used to having to praise only very few people for a lot of music. Then, as a countereffect, people started to forget how to let go (go tribal/letting the inner ape out) when the music was not pre-recorded. The anxiety generated by the eventuality of a human mistake became too overwhelming that men developed all types of error-canceling tech devices. As a result, dancing (in the tribal sense of dancing all night) has become a leisure activity. When people went to the village festival where live (tribal/folkloric) music was played for dancing (transe) purposes, they didnt check their iphones while sipping at a martini. There was drinking involved, but not the benefit of maybe having something a teeny weeny better to do. Although it s not proven that not dancing males one smarter or life better, what is clear is that the feeling of involvement shared by mdma users and village-festival-folk-dancers is not replicable home alone. About the effects of recorded music to the aesthetic life of man, some studies must exist but the problem is the angle: we need a source which is neither in favor or against the evolution of aesthetic-oriented technology, who is able to accept the advantages and quantize them, and at the same time able to see the long-term change in light of its drawbacks, how humanity doesnt benefit at all from the de-humanization of music.
