Snape's iPod (was: Staff's Activities (was:Re: Snape's Speech patterns)

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 142495

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:

<massive snippity of music listings>

> Throw in some Rachmaninov, Debussy, Mahler and Beethovan (sic).  
> Add a bit of Mozart (Dumbledore's influence) and I think we've got 
> a good start.  (I considered Wagner, for obvious reasons, but I'm 
> not sure Snape would honestly go for it.)

Of course, all of this begs the question: how are they going to 
*listen* to it?

We have Wizarding Wireless, but we've never seen evidence of any of 
those at Hogwarts.  No mention of them in the dormitories, for sure.  
Muggle technology doesn't work at Hogwarts either (camera FLINTs 
aside and all of that), so no LP listening for the Muggleborns at 
Hogwarts.  No evidence of music education, that's for sure.

I suppose one could conceptualize the pureblood Slytherin kids 
getting a kick out of Muggle music as a rebellion, but I don't quite 
see it, myself.  Half-bloods such as Snape who are patently 
obsesessed with expurgating part of their heritage?  Don't see it 
either.  Dumbledore is an exception, but don't forget that he also 
predates the era of recorded music.

Don't forget about music distribution in trying to think about these 
issues, half-serious or not.  Music doesn't just replicate itself, it 
doesn't play itself, and it doesn't spread itself.  You can't write 
the history of any music without thinking about those issues (and 
it's amazing how much of them my students keep taking for granted...).

-Nora claps her hands and brings her professional cred to bear for 
once when it's actually useful (proud member of the AMS)