re: canon, Pachelbel or otherwise

Jay here,
My solution --, probably having as balmy chance as any other one could think
of -- is to somehow increase the number of real teachers of music. It was a
good teacher who made me feel that exploring contemporary music was probably
better than sliced bread, and, in North Carolina, I humbly believe I
accomplished a bit of that through a radio program and an
artist-in-residence program in the junior high schools. Untill the school
bussing bruhahaha blew up our money pipeline, I toured all the junior highs
in the county with a series of programs (along with poets, painters and
dancers) and really got these kids fascinated. Then we bought a buncha
cassette machines, loaned one to each kid and let them record any sound they
liked, knowing that we'd bring a mixer and a few tape machines in and, as
per their inscructions, create collages. That's gotta be the wildest folk
music this side of Stockhause.!
Same goes for more esoteric-sound things like tunings. Start with the kids,
let 'em at those cheap school guitars and such, let 'em add frets or take
'em away and all that. We tell our kids that freedom/liberty is what this
country's about and then we feed them to the dog-ma.
Well enough of that rant, but fact is, though I don't pretend to think that
the majority of people will escape mediocrity, I do think the height of
mediocrity could be raised gradually. But, we're in a quick-fix culture and
that bodes ill. But I keep tryin' cuz it's too interesting.