Since no one has defended jazz yet, I will. There is signalling in jazz and perhaps moreso than the average music genre, but structurally it tends to stay inside the lines, it just has high level of potential complexity that does take legitimate skill to navigate. But listening to those complex songs with the technical improvisation can be extremely viscerally pleasurable and spiritual. You may have to get stoned. I got stoned with a young friend I made and played him Coltraine's A Love Supreme and afterward he was excitedly exclaiming "I get jazz! I get jazz!" and became a permanent fan. There's a passage about getting stoned and listening to jazz in the beginning of "Invisible Man" as well that was one of the best parts of that book.
Anyway I think progressive rock is the genre more like post modernism, which plays with structure in more experimental ways.
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Since no one has defended jazz yet, I will. There is signalling in jazz and perhaps moreso than the average music genre, but structurally it tends to stay inside the lines, it just has high level of potential complexity that does take legitimate skill to navigate. But listening to those complex songs with the technical improvisation can be extremely viscerally pleasurable and spiritual. You may have to get stoned. I got stoned with a young friend I made and played him Coltraine's A Love Supreme and afterward he was excitedly exclaiming "I get jazz! I get jazz!" and became a permanent fan. There's a passage about getting stoned and listening to jazz in the beginning of "Invisible Man" as well that was one of the best parts of that book.
Anyway I think progressive rock is the genre more like post modernism, which plays with structure in more experimental ways.
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