Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site stolaf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!stolaf!twiss From: twiss@stolaf.UUCP (Thomas S. Twiss) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: net.music.subgroups Message-ID: <1401@stolaf.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 18:05:11 EST Article-I.D.: stolaf.1401 Posted: Thu Feb 9 18:05:11 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 08:48:21 EST References: <5527@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield MN Lines: 23 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