Preliminary Version: Classical and Popular Music: a discourse into the realm that focuses on the “in between” considering electronic music as the common denominator

Antonio Azzolini

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Where do classical music end and popular music start? Is it possible to draw a clear distinction between them, and if not what is it that connects them? Are these categorisations even of any use after all? These questions arose over the course of my life and with more and more time passing and more and more work invested in this language of expression, the necessity to find an answer to these questions grew bigger. If one asks the basic question: “What is the difference between classical and popular music?” the answer might often be: “Classical music has a much higher intellectual value in comparison to popular music” and whenever I received such an answer from my peers I could not hold myself back from feeling somewhat insulted, with the compassion I had in my mind with the so-called popular music I was listening to. Regarding some music as of “lower value” than other music did not satisfy my need for an answer.

type	research exposition
keywords	classical music, popular music, electronic music
date	22/11/2021
published	11/07/2022
last modified	11/07/2022
status	limited publication
share status	private
copyright	Antonio Azzolini
license	All rights reserved
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1434426/1434425
published in	KC Research Portal
portal issue	3. Internal publication

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Preliminary Version: Classical and Popular Music: a discourse into the realm that focuses on the “in between” considering electronic music as the common denominator (2022)

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