The song I chose is Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's "Summertime". For this post, I tried to parallel a sound like Bizet's. In his "Case Against Wagner", Nietzsche describes Bizet's music as approaching "lightly, nimbly, and with courtesy. It is amiable. It does not produce sweat. 'What is good is easy; everything divine runs with light feet'"(6). The song above has a sultriness to it, yet it sways easily and does not overwhelm and make anxious one's mind so for to allow "quite other thoughts [to] run through [your] mind"(7). This would serve in contrast to Wagner's music which rather creates an obtuse insatiability within the listener, shaking for more stimulation so as to cure himself yet unknowingly only worsening his sickness, which Nietzsche would ultimately call modernism.
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Nietzsche Contra Wagner - Bizet, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
The song I chose is Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's "Summertime". For this post, I tried to parallel a sound like Bizet's. In his "Case Against Wagner", Nietzsche describes Bizet's music as approaching "lightly, nimbly, and with courtesy. It is amiable. It does not produce sweat. 'What is good is easy; everything divine runs with light feet'"(6). The song above has a sultriness to it, yet it sways easily and does not overwhelm and make anxious one's mind so for to allow "quite other thoughts [to] run through [your] mind"(7). This would serve in contrast to Wagner's music which rather creates an obtuse insatiability within the listener, shaking for more stimulation so as to cure himself yet unknowingly only worsening his sickness, which Nietzsche would ultimately call modernism.
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