Klarinet Archive - Posting 000409.txt from 2000/01

From: Dave Sandusky <daves@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Herbert vs. Karajan
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:19:42 -0500

>From www.webster.com:

Main Entry: boy·cott
Pronunciation: 'boi-"kät
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Charles C. Boycott died 1897 English land agent in Ireland who was
ostracized for refusing to reduce rents
Date: 1880

: to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (as a person, store,
or organization) usually to express disapproval or to force acceptance of
certain conditions
- boycott noun
- boy·cott·er noun

Daniel Leeson wrote:

> Neil. Think about the word "boycott." You mean to tell
> me that if you find some composer's music dull and boring,
> you get groups of people with street signs that say, "Stop
> listening to XXX's music. It is dry and boring."?
>
> Or you initiate a newspaper campaign that says, "If you
> sponsor XXX's dry and boring music, we are going to stop
> buying your products."
>
> Don't you mean something else other that "boycott"???
> If you find the music dull, stop listening to it. But
> boycott it? "Boycott" is a political action of some
> consequence.
>
> Are we simply having a communication problem? If so,
> I will boycott you and you'll starve.
>
> Neil Leupold wrote:
> >
> > --- Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net> wrote:
> >
> > > but even considering the contemporary issue you bring
> > > up would not have excluded Victor Herbert in my mind.
> >
> > That's right. As I admit in a subsequent post, my logic
> > was completely fuzzy. Sorry about that. But your state-
> > ment in another previous post bears comment -- that finding
> > a composer's music dry and mechanical is a poor reason to
> > boycot their music. Hmm....is it really a poor reason?
> > One need not have strong political feelings about a com-
> > poser in order to want to avoid them. If you simply hate
> > the manner in which they wrote, and their music just sounds
> > terrible to you, what better reason could you have for ac-
> > tively and willfully avoiding exposure to it?
> >
> > -- Neil
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
> > http://im.yahoo.com
> >
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> Dan Leeson
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