There is a lot of talk in this blog about the decline of music quality today. We have outlined several factors such like globalization and the mass media production, the technology booming, the way music is promoted, the record labels etc…
We accept that the majority of popular music today is not as meaningful comparing to the music of the 80s, 70s etc and it seems that a lot of people will agree with this statement, however there will still be a percentage of those who may have a different opinion.
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6th of December 2009, one year has passed since the murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos which had started serious riots in Athens and in the rest of the Greek cities. According to the Press, it all started when two policemen clashed with a small teenage group of anti-authoritarian beliefs in a suburb of Athens called Exarhia which is home of people with alternative lifestyle beliefs. The policemen started to threaten the group swearing and after exchange of verbal abuse the teenagers expressed their reaction to the aggressiveness of the authority throwing stones to them. One of the policemen Epaminondas Korkoneas decided to fire with his gun and killed Alexandros. Witnesses say (people from the area who were watching the event from their balconies) no one of the policemen was harmed and the group only wanted to make them go away as they were very provocative. The two policemen were suspended and arrested. Continue reading »
The 24th of November was the 19th anniversary of the death of the front man of Queen, Freddie Mercury. Undoubtedly Queen is a group with a large diversity in their music. We can see it in the Innuendo album, in the Night at the Opera? There aren’t many of their albums that you can disregard.
Farrokh Bulsara (that was Mercury’s the original name) was born in Zanzibar. His ethnic cultural background is visible everywhere in the band, both in their compositions and the performance which was fresh change in the rock scene, a real revolution in music.
Mercury was a multi talented individual. At the age of 8 Freddie was sent in a boarding school in Mumbai (India) where he showed good performance not only in the arts but in gymnastics and boxing. He firstly formed the band “The Hectics” where he played the piano. He spent his childhood in India and then he went back to Zanzibar where, trying to escape from the local troubles, he moved to London. He studied arts in Feitham and Isleworth and also graphic design in the Ealing Art College. During this time his main music influences were the Who, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin,Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and more. Continue reading »
There is a lot of talk in this blog about the decline of music quality today. We have outlined several factors such like globalization and the mass media production, the technology booming, the way music is promoted, the record labels etc…
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