Band name!
In general, the degree of music snobbery is in inverse proportion to the popularity of the genre/subgenre.
Still, special recognition for snobbery should go to devotees of opera.
Don’t the Austin people have their very own TV show on PBS?
(the most non-snobbish are the ex-disco queens who are now suburban housewives, who can be spotted singing along to “I Will Survive” and such, in their cars on the way home from the mall on Saturday nights, radios set to The Golden Oldies Disco Party. Non-snobbish because they keep very quiet about their much scorned lurid pasts. Oh, they’ll tell you they’re into Josh Groban or the Three Tenors or Beyonce, to save face. But just play a few bars of “Funky Town” and observe…)
Hey, my brother-in-law goes there! Maybe you’ve seen him. He’s the guy with the violin!
(I know so little about music that I can’t even make a real contribution to this thread. I’m just proud of my brother-in-law, and I wanted to mention that he goes to Eastman. He never seems like a snob to me. Carry on.)
Yes! He was the handsome guy with the violin, right next to the really ugly guy with the violin.
Funky Urban Dudes can be really snotty too when they want to be. I bought a Prince record some years ago and the clerk (the funky urban dude) made some comment about how Prince has a lot of obscure stuff that I probably wouldn’t like if I heard it. After I continued the conversation and showed that I had actually heard most of those other records, he gave me this real distasteful look and said “Wow… Prince really has all kinds of people listening to him.”
It was a little depressing, how disgusted he was that we liked the same music.
I think people who like jazz are a little weird. For one thing, you never see anybody with jazz on their computer or ipod, they always want to see a live jazz show.
I’ve got loads of jazz on my computer. My iPod, too, till I left it somewhere.
People who like jazz are a little weird. I think we’re trying to get over no longer being cool.
Snobs? Yeah, classical. And after that, Vinyl Rock. And after that, Elton John.
OK so I’m at this bookstore and they’re featuring a jazz quintet. Electric violinist, sitarist, pianist, bassist and drummer. I’m in the concert area while they’re setting/warming up.
I’m talking to the violinist because I’m impressed by musicians and happen to mention that I was taking piano lessons. The guy says"Oh yeah? What type of music do you want to play?" I say “Popular” because it would be kinda cool if I could play my favorite songs. He says IIRC something like “Well, good luck with that”. Not sarcastic but kinda off-putting and the conversation was over. That was my first encounter with music snobbery.
I have recorded jazz, but my best jazz experineces have been live. I could say the same thing about The Grateful Dead
IME that’s true about every genre under discussion
I’ll go with the whole Grateful Dead bootleg crowd. Does it really matter if some 10x dubbed audience tape from 1972 is converted to FLAC or 320kbps mp3? Twenty years ago you were trading cassettes through the mail, and now you’re George freaking Martin?
I’m inclined to go with the snobs for groups who are so obscure even their own parents don’t know they’re in a band.
Look, I’m glad you enjoy the band’s music, even if you do have to drive across the country to catch their One Night Only gig at a small pub in an obscure Outback mining town. But don’t expect anyone else to have ever heard of them, and do be prepared to consider the fact that if they were any good, they’d be on Triple J or one of the countless community radio stations that are only too happy to play obscure local bands.
So the fact no-one has ever heard of them suggests not so much that they’re “Hardcore Indie” or “Not prepared to sell out”, but that they’re, well, Not Very Good.
Of course, you can’t actually say that to the Obscure Indie Music fans, but you can have fun with them by making up band names and song titles and acting faintly surprised they’re not familiar with them. 
The important thing is the personality of the people, not the type of music. But since they haven’t been mentioned yet I think we have to give a mention to blues purists. These urbane and suburbane individuals demand slavish obedience to tradition that has totally stifled innovation in the genre. Why don’t they make blues guitarists like they used to? Because you’re the audience! Robert Johnson and B.B. King in their primes didn’t play to crowds of executives sipping $10 beers!
<sigh> That’s me.
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You know, the Prince thing is so fun to watch. Prince is pop. I wish ‘edgy’ Prince fans would just accept that. Everybody loves Prince. I mean, I appreciate that certain guitar afficianados can tell when he is just kickin’ ass and when he is kickin’ ass, but I got a newsflash for them; we all like to watch Prince play the guitar. Gonna have to share him with the proles.
G. Odoreida , I have been thinking more about the clapping between movements thing. I don’t think I mind when there is a sincere desire by the audience to show appreciation…like when you are at the movies and it is very funny and everyone cracks up; that’s ok.
But when you are at a movie and the dialogue is very dry and witty, and some people have to keep guffawing to show how aware they are…that is annoying.
I get the feeling lots of people at those performances clap to prove they know where the music ends. But I could be way off on that…it isn’t really my culture.
Tuvan throat singing – man, those guys are assholes.
I’ve got tons of jazz on my iPod. This morning it shuffled up tracks by Miles Davis and Lester Bowie (alongside Dylan, Cocteau Twins, Atomic Rooster, the Doors, and the Rutles). As for live shows, I’d love to see 'em, but most of my favorites–including Miles and Lester–are dead.
I have to go with punk or goth, since no matter how deeply into the appreciation and knowledge of the music you can delve into, if you don’t actually look the part then you are dismissed.
–GargoyleWB, that “Charles in Charge” looking guy you saw at the UK Subs show.
Yeah, I’m old, fat and have long hair - so there’s no possible way that I:
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By the way, you mis-spelled “look the prat”.