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I use @DanaGioiaPoet's conversation @EconTalker to ask something I've been puzzling over for years: why is language less musical than it used to be?
https://natemeyvis.com/2021/02/22/dana-gioia-and-unasked-questions/ …
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I haven't listened to the interview yet but I did read your blog post. Seems to me rap music and its cousin spoken word belong on this list.
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Yes, hip-hop / rap is the great counterexample here. Thank heavens. But there's still (to me) a major mystery about what happened to musicality everywhere else.
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My experience of learning about poetry in 'high school' is that we learnt all about expression and none about form or other technical aspects. I don't enjoy much poetry because I don't have these rails to guide me.
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I think there’s a comparable trend in the frequency of literary allusions in nonfiction. That seems squarely due to non-focality.
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That’s gotta be right (and I hadn’t noticed that aspect of the phenomenon).
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I'd speculate it's because the average person writes more and speaks less than they used to, and so has less immediate feedback on whether their words are pleasing (musical) to the listener.
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Language in general, or American English?
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I’m only qualified to speak about American English.
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