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The thing that we're sort of avoiding is the ideology of the rockist; as soon as he admits that indirectly-affected instruments are musically valid, his giving precedence to rock music has to incorporate a more sophisticated aesthetic; essentially, his aesthetic as it stands is a pillar of salt and re-affirming that ideology is the only (delusional) way of maintaining some spurious sense of 'musicianly' superiority.
What happens if someone who reads music (me, fugazifan) says that a 'real' musician has to be able to read? That makes us* wankers, right? But it's the same structure of argument - spurious half-baked notions of (doubly) reified 'quality' which ignore the subtle dynamics and contours of aesthetics as they are diffused through social interactions.
*Edit: to be clear, it only makes me a wanker for being the one who says it, unless Herr fan chooses to repeat it.
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