Fake Art? Roger Scruton

[ardcarp]

This was today's Point of View on R4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v66nl

Music features too....MacMillan v. Birtwisle!

[Bryn]

One only has to be exposed to some Scruton's own musical efforts to know what fake art is, surely?

[MrGongGong]

I thought I would listen and make some comments
BUT FFS what a pile of nonsense this idiot spouts
and factually WRONG about so many things he pretends to know about





Is it a cheap shot (or even "Kitsch" ?) to misspell his name?
When I met Huun Huur Tu I found that one of the wonderful percussion instruments they use is a dried bulls scrotum full of bones

[Serial_Apologist]

I hope Will Self will soon be back on this slot, in order to restore the "balance". Always so refreshing after I've had Sunday service accompanying my morning bath.

[MrGongGong]

I hope Will Self will soon be back on this slot, in order to restore the "balance". Always so refreshing after I've had Sunday service accompanying my morning bath.

Scruton is an intelligent man (at times) but his "create a definition that suits the argument" is rather ridiculous IMV
I thought he was supposed to be an "academic"?
Or maybe he is now at NU?

[ardcarp]

I hope Will Self will soon be back on this slot