The 70s, one of the most racially difficult eras for Britain. Despite the general discrimination against the black population, it was very common for the police force to behave brutally against them. The Carnival of Notting Hill which started in 1959 as a response to a series of racist attacks that took place during the 50s, became crucial for the integration of the Caribbean immigrants. The year of 1976 was very important for the racial relationships in the country. London was like a bomb ready to explode as serious attacks occurred. In the summer, during the Notting Hill Carnival in the fear of a possible upcoming riot more than 3.000 police officers where gathered in the festival area. Continue reading »
In this blog we have discussed several times the role of the artist in the community. Stereotypes and discrimination are very common problems that the artist have to face. For that reason I have created polls where people place their opinions. In this post we discuss the results of those polls together with other polls and surveys I found on the net.
(I would like also to point out that the quality if the pictures below is not very good, so I would suggest you to click to each specific picture in order to view it better)
Starting with the official Wichael R. Willow polls from polldaddy.com:
The results of the survey “Does the society consider the artists as outcasts?” show that the 35% of the voters believe that there is discrimination against artists but in general the society is full of stereotypes and people are labeled by their skin color, nationality, sexual orientation (including being artists) and together with the 29% who straight forward believes that there is an unfair discrimination, we have a 64% who would say yes. A small percentage says no, while the 29% supports that only the famous artists are appreciated while the non famous are considered as outcasts.
Regarding music piracy, 50% wants music to be free-legal for download, 14% should be allowed to download temporarily as a preview, together with a similar opinion of the 21% who support that the users should pay a monthly fee in order to download music as a preview and the 14% said illegal downloading should not be allowed at all.
The 57% want the musicians to be able to work more independently (believing this could be better for them), the 14% said the things will be worse for the musicians in the future and the 29% supports no groundbreaking changes will happen. Posted: 16 June 2009. Continue reading »
Meat Loaf(Marvin Lee Aday) is another musician (like all included in the Artist of the Month feature) that has fought long and hard for his art. Through lives, movies, TV shows and musicals he met the right people that helped him rise to prominence, but above all he met Jim Steinman, to whom he owes the best songs he has sung.
.It is remarkable that, having released only 10 studio albums in his 40-year-long career, Meat Loaf is not considered and he actually isn’t a non-productive artist. The Steinman material that he has uniquely interpreted is so overwhelming that even after listening to the songs literally hundreds of times you realize that you still haven?t grasped them in their entirety. Posted: 1 June 2009. Continue reading »
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The results of the survey “Does the society consider the artists as outcasts?” show that the 35% of the voters believe that there is discrimination against artists but in general the society is full of stereotypes and people are labeled by their skin color, nationality, sexual orientation (including being artists) and together with the 29% who straight forward believes that there is an unfair discrimination, we have a 64% who would say yes. A small percentage says no, while the 29% supports that only the famous artists are appreciated while the non famous are considered as outcasts.
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