Music Party Norms - Update
Mar. 20th, 2006 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lollardfish1. I should have used the word norms, not rules, perhaps.
2. My articulation of these rules are NOT in reponse to any one event, person, or thought. I've been asked to articulate my sense of them for some time, and the core is - be aware of how you can make everyone's experience better. For example, Chas can make it better by never losing his voice again! And I can make it better by staying sober.
3. It's quite clear that there are two main types of music parties - egalitarian, and not. My norms are for explicitly non-egalitarian music parties, and should not be taken to apply to every gathering.
4. We have a vocalist-instrumentalist divide. In that there's a sense that anyone who wants to sing should be able to sing, but ... if a saxophonist walked into a music circle, insisted on taking a turn every time it came around to do a 15 minute improvisational jazz solo, couldn't hit the notes, played over people's singing, took solos and simply could not play them - I think some of the people who now seem pissed off at me would be right on my side. I could be wrong though. Egalitarian extends mostly to singers, I think.
2. My articulation of these rules are NOT in reponse to any one event, person, or thought. I've been asked to articulate my sense of them for some time, and the core is - be aware of how you can make everyone's experience better. For example, Chas can make it better by never losing his voice again! And I can make it better by staying sober.
3. It's quite clear that there are two main types of music parties - egalitarian, and not. My norms are for explicitly non-egalitarian music parties, and should not be taken to apply to every gathering.
4. We have a vocalist-instrumentalist divide. In that there's a sense that anyone who wants to sing should be able to sing, but ... if a saxophonist walked into a music circle, insisted on taking a turn every time it came around to do a 15 minute improvisational jazz solo, couldn't hit the notes, played over people's singing, took solos and simply could not play them - I think some of the people who now seem pissed off at me would be right on my side. I could be wrong though. Egalitarian extends mostly to singers, I think.
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