Juan Diego Marroquin, “Bad Music’s Utility”, Outside Reading #5, entry 15

I read excerpts of a book by Simon Firth called Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate. FIrth argues that “bad” music is a necessity in order to come to a full appreciation of the beauty of music. I thought this fit in nicely with a Hegelian or philosophical Germanic idea of synthesis or arriving at a higher truth. Bad music is necessary to distinguish that which is good. They are indeed opposing forces: thesis and synthesis, but together they allow us to properly indulge in what we find most beautiful.