{"id":52308,"date":"2020-01-09T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52308"},"modified":"2020-01-08T09:48:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T14:48:46","slug":"qotd-national-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/01\/09\/qotd-national-music\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: National music"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>What does the soul of a people sound like? With the Germans, you have adequate proof; Wagner spoke for them, for better or worse &mdash; grandeur and myth that elevated the soul as easily as it rotted to the soundtrack for a meglomaniacal death cult. Italian music &mdash; well, no one ever marched off to war to Respighi&#8217;s ode to a peacock. Music for life, lived without lasting consequence. (They did their part in the Roman times; they&#8217;ve earned a nap.) French music is best expressed by the gauzy wash of Debussy and his comrades, music that doesn&#8217;t confront the ear but gently appeases it. America: cheerful tootling Souza marches or great broad optimistic Copeland yawps. Or jazz. Or rock and roll. Or country twangs. (It&#8217;s not that we have no sound &mdash; we have many, and each is as much a part of us as the other. Few cultures can pull that off.) Russian music has that delicious third-drink moodiness. Canadian music &mdash; no such thing, really, which is telling. Unless you define it as American style music recorded in a Canadian studio to satisfy a government requirement.<\/p>\n<p>James Lileks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/screedblog\/05\/07\/070805.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Screedblog<\/a>, 2005-07-08.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does the soul of a people sound like? With the Germans, you have adequate proof; Wagner spoke for them, for better or worse &mdash; grandeur and myth that elevated the soul as easily as it rotted to the soundtrack for a meglomaniacal death cult. Italian music &mdash; well, no one ever marched off to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1117,1118,339,28,41,1119,13],"tags":[200],"class_list":["post-52308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-france","category-germany","category-italy","category-media","category-quotations","category-russia","category-usa","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dBG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54079,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52308\/revisions\/54079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}