XPost: rec.music.bluenote, rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz   
   From: manitou910@rogers.com   
      
   Mark & Steven Bornfeld wrote:   
   > j_nscott@msn.com wrote:   
   >   
   >> Hi JC,   
   >>   
   >> Dictionary.com includes "Something that... pleases..." as part of the   
   >> definition of entertainment, and "the production of the beautiful" as   
   >> part of the definition of art. Is there a difference? Imo no.   
   >>   
   >> Traditionally, many people in the upper classes have viewed the   
   >> subjective aesthetic interests of the upper classes as somehow   
   >> implicitly better than the subjective aesthetic interests of the lower   
   >> classes, and that's how the nonsensical idea that "art" is implicitly   
   >> better than and and in a different class from "entertainment" has been   
   >> maintained over the centuries, by snobs.   
   >   
   >     I expect to see Page 6 of the NY Post discussed in art history   
   > classes any time now.   
      
   Along with a precis of someone's PhD dissertation on the comparative   
   merits of Kenny G and Earl Klugh ...?   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   C.   
      
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