I went to Philosophy of Arts tutorial today. We were talking about Baugh's and Davies' views on Rock VS Classical music. Baugh phrased "the material or 'visceral' properties of rock", which I found it very difficult to understand. What does "visceral properties of rock" means? What "visceral" means? Here's what Dictionary.com says:
vis·cer·al
Audio Help /ˈvɪs
–adjective
- of or pertaining to the viscera.
- affecting the viscera.
- of the nature of or resembling viscera.
- characterized by or proceeding from instinct rather than intellect: a visceral reaction.
- characterized by or dealing with coarse or base emotions; earthy; crude: a visceral literary style.
These definitions are not good enough for me to understand when I have to tide this word to rock music. I still don't understand.
In the tutorial, the tutor asked us to think of some non-visceral rock music examples. Since I don't even know what it means by "visceral", of course I cannot give any example of "non-visceral". Anyway, Radiohead came out from someone's lips.
So I went onto YouTube to do my listening research. After listening to Creep, No Surprises, Karma Police, Fake Plastic Trees, Street Spirit, Just, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, and You, I think I have a little bit of idea what "visceral/non-visceral" means. Hmm... I like non-visceral music.
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