Είναι γνωστό ότι οι “άνθρωποι” συντηρητικών ιδεολογιών “σκληροπυρηνικών Jesus Freaks” εδώ και αιώνες προσπαθούν να εμποδίσουν οποιαδήποτε γνώμη διαφέρει απο τις δικές τους και τάσσεται ενάντια στις μεσαιωνικές τους προκαταλήψεις. Σε μεγάλο βαθμό, φαινόμενα όπως η ομοφυλοφιλία, η μετανάστευση, οι προγαμιαίες σχέσεις έχουν δαιμονοποιηθεί από τη χριστιανική εκκλησία, όπως επίσης και η ροκ μουσική στην οποία έχουν κηρύξει πόλεμο εδώ και χρόνια ως γέννημα του Σατανά. Συνέχεια στο υπόλοιπο »
If you ever thought of visiting Athens, I am sure you have been advised to avoid the area called “Exarcheia”. I have no doubt that your tourist office has informed you to stay away from this district and all the surrounding areas as they have been unfairly connected with high crime, prostitution, drug dealing and of course with the Greek riots of 2008. Continue reading »
Some people start their music career without proper knowledge of music. Thus we have famous singers who don’t know how to sing, guitar players who don’t know how to play the guitar or sometimes use an out of tune guitar.
There are a lot of examples and I promise to avoid naming names. I don’t want to offend the fans of the band Kings of Leon who have copied the “Silent All These Years” by Tori Amos in their song “The Bucket”… what an inspiration. I would not say anything about Snow Patrol who are the U2 of the future and they took up music lessons after they started their career because they wanted to improve their technical, composition and performance skills. I will not say anything about all the new brit pop, cockney accent bands who sound like Oasis, Pulp and the Beatles, who I don’t personally like because I believe that Tina Turner and Michael Jackson did better than them. Posted: 19 July 2009. Continue reading »
This article is related to the Shooting starspost (the first entry in our blog section) which was focused more on the technological booming, how this has affected the mass media production and the role of globalization in music (click here for related posts). Today I will try to outline how the record label system targets its audience based on the marketing rules and how music is used by the mass media instead being an independent medium of free expression.
The last century was crucial for the evolution of music. Several styles and sub-styles were created (pop, rock, metal, rap) however is this healthy for music today? Perhaps we have gone too far with all the labels we give to the different music styles. They are certainly useful in order to categorize the different sounds and name the different ways of expression but sticking to that is unacceptable, and as I will try to show, it is one of the ways the labels use to sell as much as possible. Posted: 2 July 2009. Continue reading »
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