Interesting!
You are not a sheep...
Thanks for your interesting postings...
My deepest respect...
Politics and Music
The Trumpets of Jericho
Beethoven and Napoleon
Wagner and the Nazis
"Ohio" and the Vietnam War
"Imagine" and consumerism
The Dixie Chicks
Countless examples illustrate the intersection of Music and Politics. Jerry Garcia referenced his group as "just a dance band." Always pondered how we react to our choices of music. Divorce it entirely from the controversies of the day and merely enjoy the artistry or allow it to change the way in which we view the world. Transformative, escapism, nostalgia, intellectual profundity, cultural discovery. Large questions. Your thoughts?
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Great posts thanks unreceivedogma
Gorecki symphony is a miracle.... Like some few musical pieces in history.... |
Hating Russians for their government move is preposterous... It is like hating americans because of Bush or any other president... Cancelling Russian culture is beyond stupidity... Politic and music are not separable, no more than in England for example Tallis or Byrd were understandable and the relation between their works in a comparison without the passage of Catholicism to Henry VIII protestantism... All music is born from a sociological cultural context, which include politic in any era... Why is this important? Because all histories, economic,politic,artistic,musical,scientific etc reflect only one history together : the history of human consciousness itself... Then the goal of each of us as student is to decipher the past layers of the unconscious in our own consciousness... One of the best underestimated books i know among others for doing that is :
Jean Gebser " the ever present origin"... A work beyond ordinary genius... Or Egon Fridell : "the cultural history of the modern age"... Or in the US : F.S.C. Northrop " the meeting of east and west"... All underestimated flabbergasting opuses complementary of each other... 😁😊
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