Wow meow - even your post is art!
Indeed - a culture is a very intricate thing, and art is enmeshed with it, as the old question about art commenting on or constructing society suggests. Art is within the social mind, one might say. I think the artist wants to lose that sense of himself as an artist, and rather, merge with 'flux of creation'. I think this is represented by spray paint art buskers, where the spectacle of the art being created, in itself, is art - like another different form of dance.
The last poets are like that gold I mentioned in my last post. I can listen to that, and to me, it's the difference between a good restaurant meal and a big mac.
I don't understand DJ music, and it seems to me 'the band isn't there'. Its akin to taking a lot of other people's paintings and arranging them very cleverly, and I appreciate the skill and even the aspiration of DJ's to become musicians. Kiss, on the other, have a finger on the fret board with every nuance of sound.
Indeed rockers didn't typically like disco, and in my case, I stopped buying KISS albums when Dynasty came out. Queen did the same thing with their album Hot Space - which is still distinctly Queen - but rockers were outraged! Hahaha. Under Pressure, was the hit single.
In the case of Hendrix, I would ask people who think it sounds ear splitting, if they can appreciate it a great art despite their personal tastes, because I think great art production is regardless of personal taste, and the person who can appreciate art for arts sake, as opposed to their own sake, is comparable to the discerning person as opposed to the gullible. For example, I think there is a certain naivety about Beliebers. A mass hysteria or swoon of celebrity, if you will, but indeed - so much happiness.
I was thinking of happiness as an example of the 'nondescript yet obvious' but I didn't know what to say about that.
I'm similar in that I enjoy are as an emotive/sensation experience, and I like stuff which I consider to be pretty terrible art, but I really think I can tell the difference. I think the technical skill is a practiced talent and there an underlying honesty to the art/ integrity of the artist, and I believe that when the artist is lost in the 'flux of creation' - that spontaneous self expression - magic happens.