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RE: Growing up with music in your life Posted on: 04-02-2006 @ 03:41 pm |
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this is a reply I posted on michiganmusicians.com regarding the importance of music in my life and what role it has played in my development. I just wanted to keep a copy because I don't think I've ever articulated it quite like this.
I think it's important to grow up with music in your life, if for no other reason than to help cultivate a private emotional space in your head - at least until one of your favorite songs ends up in a f*cking television commercial (the recent use of Peter Gabriel's "Salisbury Hill" comes to mind).
I grew up in a pretty dysfunctional family and I don't know how I would have survived it without Abbey Road, Goats Head Soup, Avalon, Close To The Edge, Crosby Stills & Nash, Physical Graffitti and hundreds of LPs my older siblings passed down to me and the hundreds of 45s my parents assuaged me with. Music was our oasis from the insanity. It was the surrogate for our emotional fullfillment.
As a result of that co-dependent relationship, I probably place too much emphasis on the importance of music in my life. Often, certain songs mean more to me than they do to the composers. Ive confronted local artists before to attempt to communicate how much a certain song means to me only to have them smile, nod their heads and run for the door. They couldn't possibly understand where I'm coming from, and I couldnt possibly communicate it in a healthy way - though I still try.
My daughter, on the other hand, doesn't need an emotional surrogate, so she has a very different relationship to music. She still loves music, but it isn't overemphasized. I have to be careful when she digs music from my generation because I can get too excited about it - I'll download the entire album for her and want to share it track by track, pointing out all the esoteric minutae I know about it. If there's one guaranteed way to quash a kids interest in something - it's for the parent to get too involved. I have to stifle myself, step back and let her develop her own relationship to the music.
So it's a very personal relationship but, I also like to believe music is, collectively, a circuit of humanity that can be tapped into if an artist is willing to risk the truth of their lives in their music and we're simply willing to really listen.
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