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Classical music is a higher art form, whereas rock is a lower one. In today's postmodern college-whatever world, "high" and "low" are blasphemies, but I think they are very real differences. Western classical music is the oldest literate musical tradition in the world, and has been treated as an intellectual art form for hundreds of years—in contrast, other traditional/popular musics come from folk traditions, i.e. not written down. Art simply cannot be developed to the same extent without having a literate system to carry ideas from one generation to the next, not to mention across borders and cultures. The difference is similar to cultures that have an oral tradition (no writing), vs. written literature. Of course, there is great value to an oral tradition, and it is not worse, but it certainly is less cultivated. And the same goes for popular music vis-à-vis classical.
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>>54307246
You realise people carried ideas down from one generation to the next with oral tradition right? There's a reason things like the Eddas exist and it's because people were reciting them word for word for hundreds to thousands of years before they were written down. You don't need a literate system for art to progress, you need people with an aptitude for learning, and actually oral tradition can help train this ability because the permission to write makes people lazy. Ancient Celts were all literate yet religiously forbidden to write and had to learn all their songs, books, poetry, etc orally and that's how they were passed down for a millenium before Iulius Cæsar destroyed them, and they were well known in the ancient world for their arts and sciences which they had cultivated longer than western classical has even existed. Cæsar himself wrote of their great ability to learn and memorise.
Comparing modern popular music to popular music of antiquity (traditional music) is completely absurd because traditional music has been cultivated and developed and refined and practised for thousands of years while popular music is extremely new and has had no time to refine itself whatsoever. Traditional music has actually seen more development and change than classical music or popular music, which would not even exist without its roots in traditional music, which is the oldest form of music in our human history as old as stone age instruments like bone flute. You simply view art with a bias to literacy and what you're most familiar with, you cannot easily hear or study how traditional music has developed (ironically classical is more popular than traditional today and is extremely accessible in comparison, not requiring any archaeological study or extrapolation or guesswork to produce) because folk cultures are dead or dying and things like the music to ancient Greek plays will never be heard.
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