What is Good Music? What Good is Music? | Prof. Michael Dickson

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🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This lecture was given at the University of South Carolina on September 29, 2020.

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Speaker Bio:

Michael Dickson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. After a brief term as a professional french horn player, he earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1995. He was a member of the faculty of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University for ten years prior to joining the faculty at the University South Carolina, where he currently teaches philosophy of music and medieval philosophy, among other things. He also serves in a Schola Cantorum and teaches Gregorian chant to children and adults.

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0:09.6	So I'll give you a kind of a section title for each section of the talk.
0:15.5	It might seem off topic, but let's begin with church architecture.
0:20.2	During roughly the middle of the 20th century,
0:22.6	ideas from modernist architecture began to find their way into the design of churches. In America,
0:28.6	this shift happened partly due to a transformation of the major schools of architecture
0:32.9	upon the arrival of refugees from the German Bauhaus in 1930s, including its founder,
0:38.5	the architect Walter Gropius, who was quickly embraced as the chair of the Department of
0:42.6	Architecture at Harvard University. If you don't know, the Bauhaus was a school of art and design
0:47.8	in the first part of the 20th century. The guiding idea of the modernist movement was functionalism,
0:53.8	encapsulated in the phrase,
0:56.0	form follows function.
0:59.0	It doesn't mean what you might think.
1:01.0	In particular, it doesn't mean that buildings should be designed to facilitate the activities that occur within them,
1:07.0	a principle that seems reasonable enough.
1:10.0	Nor does it mean that buildings should be designed so that their form reveals their function.
1:14.6	Again, a reasonable enough principle.
1:17.6	In fact, the churches that have been built in accordance with these principles,
1:21.6	that is to say what the principle, form follows function,
1:24.6	looks anything like churches, but instead corporate headquarters or spaceships
1:31.2	or giant party hats, piles of cardboard boxes, and so on. Nor do they particularly facilitate
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