“To jump ahead roughly one hundred years: Jim Morrison described his band The Doors as ‘erotic politicians’. ‘We’re interested in everything about revolt, disorder, and all activity that appears to have no meaning.’ It is difficult to imagine what Nietzsche would have thought of the music, but it is hard to imagine him withholding his approval from statements like that. But in a sense even The Doors did not believe in dissonance. In order to make their anarchic message palatable to an audience beyond, say, the salons of fin de siecle Vienna, they had to return to the tonality their musical fathers despised.” [E. Michael Jones, Dionysos Rising (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 1994), p. 72]
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