[Marxism] Post-Modern Music?

[Terrence McGovern]

Yes the contradiction between punk and prog is just another dialectic
which ends in bloody conflict...

I understand the sort of position which is opposed to prog, however,
as with Marxism it has its own definitions and these are realized
against the definitions of opponents.

As democracy and democracy are opposed,

so is pretentiousness and pretentiousness,

for instance;

Roger Waters, who was the frontman of Pink Floyd, had a great
influence on me and could be called
the foremost authority on nihilism since Nietzsche became a vegetable.
His lyrics are complex and his messages do not shy away from his best
attempts at the truth even at the risk of dictating to the listener.
For prog fans, the music, as a further outlet for philosophical
expression, is enjoyed as something perhaps spiritual and innate. The
best Prog goes out to explain things. I reference Pink Floyd and
Genesis (before 1980). I would wish to make clear as a progressive
fan, to me the great guitarists and musical feats are not indulgence
but creative expression on a mission. The Pete Townshend song "Pure
and Easy" about a note that unlocks heaven is a good explanation. That
this mission failed alongside the student protest movement, helpless
against reality with its ultimately impotent idealism, is all the more
clear because of its replacement, punk, which approaches music
entirely differently. Punk itself has been drowned in conformism,
corresponding to the conformism of the opportunistic "middle class"
ideology of today.


Hopefully this entry has helped bolden my outline of the change in
music. I do not wish to necessarily question the viability of any
music form (though I can't help but be subjective), when I say Prog
was modernistic and Punk as an idea even is post-modernistic, but I
wish instead to draw to attention the fluidity of art under social
pressure.