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New music artists 'The Who,' once raised the musical question; 'Who are you?'

At first impulse, one would be tempted to reply with a name.

Beyond this, one might attempt to answer by giving one's nationality, one's race, one's religion or one's political affiliation. The answer might have to do with sexual preference or social role.

One might think the answer has something to do with the generation they belong to, the music they listen to or the clothes they wear. One might think the question can be answered by what group or movement they belong to.

In point of fact, however, the answer has nothing really to do with any of the above definitions. All of these things are, in fact, who you are not.

The answer can only come via a process of deconstruction. The answer cannot begin with "I am…"

It brings to mind the story of the sculpter who, upon being asked how he ever was able to create such a beautiful likeness of his subject replied;

"It was easy. I just chipped away everything that didn't look like my subject."

It is only when we have begun to chip away everything that is not us that we can begin to see.

 

 

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In reviewing the formative experiences that went into making me the new music artist that I am today, I cannot possibly overlook Music Appreciation. Music Appreciation was not a class that you would find in the school curriculum, it was extracurricular in the extreme.

Music Appreciation was conducted during the off hours in Dave and Marty's dorm room and was attended by anywhere from a half dozen to a dozen or more students. The attendance was divided roughly between the students from our institution and the art students from the Maryland Institute of the Arts.

Everyone was invited to bring along a musical selection of their choice and, after the opening formalities, all of the new music artists of the past and the new music artists of the present were heard with no additional commentary or preamble.

That what went on in Music Appreciation had something to do with the smoke alarms going off out in the dorm halls is pure conjecture and rumor, no doubt started by Bill Brown, a school 'guard' with whom I had a 'Tom and Jerry,' relationship.

 

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