The Arts at Hogwarts/Music in the Wizarding World

[maria_kirilenko]

No: HPFGUIDX 57757

Squee wrote:
> It also brings up questions I've had about pop-culture
> in general...Are there Wizard Radios?  Wizard
> Rockstars?
> 
> How is music disseminated into the masses in the
> Wizarding world?
> 
> The one good thing abouthte vaugeness/lack of info on
> music/art at Hogwarts is that I don't have to worry
> about cannon when I write fic about it.


It has already been mentioned that there is the Wireless Wizarding 
Network, that we are aware of a singer named Celestina Warbeck (Just 
for the record, I think she sounds like Mireille Mathieu) and a band 
called The Weird Sisters. So, clearly, pop-culture exists. 

Now onto more cultured ground. Quidditch Through The Ages mentions a 
playwright named Malecrit. There are many paintings in Hogwarts. 
Which, IMO, means that everything is alright with art in the WW. 

As for Hogwarts... Personally, I don't think I would appreciate 
having to take a course in painting or singing. I sing, go to the 
theatre whenever I get the chance, and visit art museums. But past 
the age of eleven art courses never interested me, although I had 
participated in several plays in school. Of course, that's just me. 
Electives are a completely different thing, though, but I have 
trouble imagining that there would be a big enough demand for an arts 
course.I am of the opinion that Magic Painting, for example, is 
taught via apprenticeship.

Maria Alena,

*finally* distinguishing herself from the other Marias on 
the list. <g>