THE FUNERAL OF MUSIC ... 6
Culture is being decimated by the onset of commercialism. Royal patronage gone, business houses are destroying it despite pretensions to the contrary that they are promoting it. After all, the connoisseurs who discern the grain from the chaff are a dwindling lot these days and Gurus have turned mercenaries. The disciples are on the fast track to making money, earning fame and enjoying the luxuries of life. The conservation principle allows this at the cost of declining culture. The loss the common man cannot always feel for his tastes are dull and determined largely by what he is fed constantly by these ambassadors of today's culture riding high at the abysmal depths of plummeting civilisation of man. It is a devaluation of artistic merit that has now become common and the accepted standard of cultural excellence. Self-blazoning masters in mediocrity are today's representatives of artistic perfection. What more may be expected then than the precipitous fall of culture into the abyss of aesthetic nothingness?
Written by Sugata Bose
P.S. : Attached below are a few audio / video links from YouTube that bear the last strains of the glories of music that is now a forgotten dream :
Photo (source : internet) : Pandit A.T. Kanan
Culture is being decimated by the onset of commercialism. Royal patronage gone, business houses are destroying it despite pretensions to the contrary that they are promoting it. After all, the connoisseurs who discern the grain from the chaff are a dwindling lot these days and Gurus have turned mercenaries. The disciples are on the fast track to making money, earning fame and enjoying the luxuries of life. The conservation principle allows this at the cost of declining culture. The loss the common man cannot always feel for his tastes are dull and determined largely by what he is fed constantly by these ambassadors of today's culture riding high at the abysmal depths of plummeting civilisation of man. It is a devaluation of artistic merit that has now become common and the accepted standard of cultural excellence. Self-blazoning masters in mediocrity are today's representatives of artistic perfection. What more may be expected then than the precipitous fall of culture into the abyss of aesthetic nothingness?
Written by Sugata Bose
P.S. : Attached below are a few audio / video links from YouTube that bear the last strains of the glories of music that is now a forgotten dream :
Photo (source : internet) : Pandit A.T. Kanan
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