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~About this episode~
Exploring the wild and ordered elements of life, the formed and the hidden,
the traditional and the restless, via Western classical and “classic rock” musics.
Some approximate time stamps of themes discussed:
20:00
the 1960s
29:00
John on the counter-culture, notion there was no prior “culture” to counter
32:00
our current pro-Western independent arts & media can’t be hijacked by corporations
40:00
Joujouka music of Morocco, Westerners’ fascination with “the other”
45:00
Wildness doesn’t make sense without perimeter then clarifies “dark”
Chaos and meaning
1:10
Some of my takes on rock music
1:17:30
rock musicians as latest iteration of Western Romanticism
1:25:00
exploratory nature of rock music
1:28:30
uses and limits of “Faustian” as term to describe Western man
1:32:30
John on why he likes classical
1:37:00
John on harmony, “local imbalances”
1:40:00
John returns to what he likes in classical music
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~Addendum~
The following video, featuring a composer discussing the music of The Beatles,
provides a good complement to this episode: