tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35429900.post3150416371074403509..comments2023-04-16T13:53:57.295+00:00Comments on improvising guitar: an application of the principles of canon formationthe improvising guitaristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07517613086214719180noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35429900.post-19901022125191507422006-12-01T15:00:00.000+00:002006-12-01T15:00:00.000+00:00Hey- Finally made it over here. Nice little summar...Hey- Finally made it over here. Nice little summary of yet another "official story." Don't know why it's taken me so long, several decades really, to figure out that comprehensive histories are impossible, not just difficult. The idea is highly appealing, but it's like trying to make a film version of Finnegans Wake. I'm sure there's classism, racism, elitism and many other -isms consciously and unconsciously involved in every such attempt, but more than that, I'm convinced it's just incompetence in the face of an impossible task.<br /><br />I wonder what the long term damage is or isn't. <br /><br />PBPeter Breslinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15466530226652452872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35429900.post-31972416242516281962006-11-25T16:06:00.000+00:002006-11-25T16:06:00.000+00:00Do you mean “true” as in you agree that The Cambri...Do you mean “true” as in you agree that <i>The Cambridge History of 20th Century Music</i> is “an application of the principles of canon formation,” or that you agree with the statements that I listed (e.g. “White people do not have race”)?<br /><br />S,the improvising guitaristhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07517613086214719180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35429900.post-49060447577167294552006-11-25T00:50:00.000+00:002006-11-25T00:50:00.000+00:00"It's funny cuz it's true.""It's funny cuz it's true."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com