keyboarder Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Are you suggesting that music is a product of the cultural and social changes going on when it is created rather than a catalyst for those changes? Sort of I suppose, but more that music is just one part of change and not a catalyst in itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Music is an accompaniment of social change - sometimes it leads, often it follows (the Beatles wrote Revolution and the Stones Street Fighting Man after the Paris uprisings etc), but the power of a small group of people to put the aspirations of thousands into lyrics, harmony, a base beat, and a lead guitar shouldn't be underestimated. The aspirations may have come from someone else, but crystalizing it into a sound - well the Beech Boys, the Beatles, The Sex Pistols - who else? - they knew how to do it. I do think they changed the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hboy Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Well I heard mister Young sing about her Well, I heard ole Neil put her down Well, I hope Neil Young will remember A Southern man don't need him around anyhow In 1973 even Lynyrd Skynyrd knew he couldn't change anything through song ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyboarder Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 well the Beech Boys, the Beatles, The Sex Pistols - who else? - they knew how to do it. I do think they changed the world. I think these examples prove how unimportant music is in the overall scheme of things. The younger generation latch on sheeplike to a scene that mildly annoys the older generations, a scene almost always driven by the corporate pound. It might start small but quickly becomes the norm countrywide, generating large income and maintaining the existing state of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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