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From: twiss@stolaf.UUCP (Thomas S. Twiss)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: net.music.subgroups
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Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 18:05:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  9 18:05:11 1984
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	Jerry Boyajian says (in response to the argument that subgroups will
perpetuate the elitist attitudes of musical tastes) that the subgroups will
make it possible for people to not have to put up with "snootiness" (wow,
I hope no English Prof reads that sentence!).  

	This may be true, Jerry, but that certainly doesn't solve the
problem, does it?  Rather than changing people's elitist attitudes, the
subgroups merely enforces them and causes us to turn our backs to the
problem.  This is no solution.

	Obviously, Prentiss Riddle doesn't believe that the group will become
as fragmented as he showed, he is merely pointing out through hyperbole that
the subgroups would contribute to a very narrow view of music.  This is
particularly bad because (whether people realize it or not) all genres of
music are VERY closely related, and to break up the group will cease to
expand our horizons (that may be unnecessarily melodramatic, but it's true).

FLAME AWAY!! I don't care because this is...

				From the asbestos keyboard of,
					Tom Twiss
				...!ihnp4!stolaf!twiss