{"id":72,"date":"2008-10-15T18:20:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T18:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=72"},"modified":"2008-10-15T18:20:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T18:20:45","slug":"point_of_conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2008\/10\/point_of_conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Point of Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"light2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/light2.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"208\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last night, during a long and winding conversation about music, genre, emotional vs. intellectual processing and cross-derivatives of the two, etc., we wondered aloud about the ways we use music in our personal lives as opposed to the professional. How can you love this? How can you not?\u00c2\u00a0Do you pay more attention to the music or the lyrical content? Oh, really, well that explains it!&#8211;You know, that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, we specifically spoke about how we use it to decorate the fantasy space in our heads that houses the lives we live and, perhaps of even greater concern, the lives we aspire to. How important is the music itself, and how important is what we feel the music and its extra-musical trappings say about the type of person we are? It&#8217;s loosely similar to what reading some particular magazine in public might project. It&#8217;s a fool who reads a magazine only so strangers will see and think her a certain type of person, but there is a certain type of person who holds it and knows that others, if they glance her way, will know her for what she is inside. It represents her and her values. If that feels adolescent to you, substitute the type of car you drive, clothes you wear, whatever thing or activity you use to define who you are to the world, even if no one is explicitly paying you any attention whatsoever. <\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the evening, the question we finally got around to was: Why is <i>this<\/i> the kind of music that you feel most attached to? The &#8220;this&#8221; varied by respondent, but the answer distilled down neatly. There are lots of people in the world, many you&#8217;d share lunch or a drink with a few times a year and have a very grand time. But only a select group, when gathered close around you, feels truly like home.<\/p>\n<p>With that we ate the last of the peanuts in the dish and cashed out.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, during a long and winding conversation about music, genre, emotional vs. intellectual processing and cross-derivatives of the two, etc., we wondered aloud about the ways we use music in our personal lives as opposed to the professional. How can you love this? How can you not?\u00c2\u00a0Do you pay more attention to the music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}