The reading

Music:
Patti Smith Horses
The Pretenders

Knitting Project:
A Maine Won’t Discriminate Tote Bag

I love how many connections there are in the book between the arts. Using painting metaphors to help the reader understand minimalist music is quite smart. It is strange how common it is that a genre name starts out as a pejorative term. Impressionist is an example, so is suffragette, and now we can add minimalist music to the list.
The idea of tracing the genealogy of minimalist music is a good one. It seems remarkable that you could have such varied sources for minimalist music. It would be quite the project to trace the influence of worlds fairs and exhibition on music art and pop culture in general. I like Kyle Ganns idea that “Minimalism’s early mystique was to have no secrets, to hold the music’s structure right in the audience’s face” (audio culture p.303). I cannot wait for the class playlist with minimalist music on it.