{"id":1689,"date":"2008-09-18T12:05:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T16:05:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T21:08:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T21:08:22","slug":"proctomusicology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/proctomusicology\/","title":{"rendered":"Proctomusicology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/webern460.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Webern: The Godfather of Prock?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After a year and a half of research, analysis, and discussion, Rock Town Hall has arrived at what might be its most important <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/c17\/\">Glossary<\/a> entry to date, Proctomusicology and its related terms, Proctomusicologist and Prock. We have identified a unifying principle in modern music that cuts across genres. A simple, concise definition follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><big><em>Proctomusicology:<\/em> Music up its own ass about its musicological means of creating music, inching forward the aesthetic principles of whatever style\/s is\/are being mined. <\/p>\n<p>See also: <em>Proctomusicologist<\/em>, <em>Prock<\/em><\/big><\/p><\/blockquote><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0MGtr121fFI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>The research and development that went into the validation of this term is detailed in the links below. It was a true team effort, with <strong>Townsman Saturnismine<\/strong> responsible for the exact phrasing of our definition. Meanwhile, the author of our Glossary entry <em>Kentonite<\/em>, <strong>Townsman Hrrundivbakshi<\/strong>, noted the difference between a Kentonite and a Proctomusicologist: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Kentonite is obssessed with the technical componentry of music, and cares not whether the music is looking forward or backward; the Prock-ist is obsessed with the subject matter&#8217;s musicological componentry, and always defines it in terms of its antecedents.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s a Rock Venn Diagram thing going on here, as well. Some artists are both Prockists <em>and<\/em> Kentonites. <strong>Donald Fagen<\/strong> springs to mind. I&#8217;d add that &#8212; slicing even more finely &#8212; there are Prock bands (eg, <strong>XTC<\/strong>) that contain Kentonite members (eg, <strong>Dave Gregory<\/strong>), and so forth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read back through the term&#8217;s Working Definition period of development, in the following links, and I think you&#8217;ll agree that no group of music lovers was better equipped to define this term. For more reading on this subject see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/09\/12\/working_definition_cont_proctomusicology#more315\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2007\/09\/27\/spot_the_prock\">here<\/a>,  and where it all began, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2007\/01\/31\/working_definition_proctomusicology\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Webern: The Godfather of Prock? After a year and a half of research, analysis, and discussion, Rock Town Hall has arrived at what might be its most important Glossary entry to date, Proctomusicology and its related terms, Proctomusicologist and Prock. We have identified a unifying principle in modern music that cuts across genres. A simple, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/proctomusicology\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[46,47,66,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}