BROADCASTING A DRUG
“FANS” LIKE BACKGROUND OF NOISE M,r. Frank Howes, speaking of musical appreciation to the Incorporated Society of Musicians, in London, said that people who kept their wireless loud-speakers going from mid-day to midnight did so not from any appreciation of music, but because they liked the continuous noise as a background to their other occupations. “Music has become to them a drug, a kind of ‘audible tobacco.’ Like all heavy smokers, they tend to stick to ‘gaspers’ and eschew the more aromatic and fragrant blends.” Music, he contended, should be approached as an experience. It was an experience, like a summer holiday, or falling in love, or bad news. The supreme argument in favour of musical appreciation was that they got from music just as much as they put into it. The fnore they brought to music the more they found in it.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 310, 22 March 1928, Page 17
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146BROADCASTING A DRUG Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 310, 22 March 1928, Page 17
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