In article writes:
Just got finished watching a documentary called scratch. pretty
amazing. turntables are outselling guitars in the UK. I think what
these guys is pretty amazing BUT is it as exciting as watching a guy
who can really play play the guitar or a piano or a saxophone? it's
music that couldn't exist without pre -existing music. i'm kind of
confused. what do you guys think?

This could be determined with appropriate use of functional MRI, comparing the
brain activity of a pianist to a DJ, for example. It could also solve the
question of whether rappers are musicians (singers), but no one has so far
volunteered to fund these rather expensive studies.

-Jay
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