Composers don't get enough love.

[e_corgi]

Musical composers deserve far more respect than they ever get. From listening to the average conversation, it seems as though the only ones considered worth mentioning last produced music decades, if not centuries, ago. I don't understand why those currently living aren't getting as much attention as those who are long-dead, especially in the time

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[tsukinowake]

It's sounds more to the point, creative composers don't get enough love. Teeny bopper pop stars get plenty of attention. Ech. But as for why the dead get more attention than the living? It's probably along the same lines as art history: So and so was the father of this or that movement and it was soooo revolutionary! It doesn't seem to me like many people are composing anything particularly revolutionary any more. I think Blue Man Group was the last *new* type of sound I heard. In the art world people are trying to go for shock value, and to be *edgy*, but really it just turns into a pile of mush that all looks the same even when looking at different artists. No one person stands out because they're all striving for the same thing. Maybe it's the same with music? I can't remember the last artist that did anything new past Warhol and his ilk. Unless you count things like Pixar using computer animation. But then once one person does it, everyone starts to, and it all blurs together.