Shared by a learned professor musician and composer from Berkley Collegeof Music. When we were little, our mother used to sit us down at the radio to listen for direction from the music. a concerned colleague... WE must frankly acknowledge that in the past years our creativity and imagination were not equipped in learning how to develop power…. When a new dawn reveals a landscape dotted with obstacles, the time has come for sober reflection, an assessment of our methods and for anticipating pitfalls… None of us can pretend that he knows all the answers... In our society power sources are sometimes obscure and indistinct. Yet they can always be traced to those forces we describe as idealogical, economic and political. WE are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce reality of now.This may well be mankinds last chance between chaos and communuty…WE are now making choices which will determine whether we can achieve these goals in the forth coming decades. We cannot afford to make these choices poorly. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Martin Luther King 1967 Two questions. The social question... The question arises much like Kings classic title, Where Do We Go From Here, Chaos or Community?( 1967), with the kind of never ending always ramping/vamping up on government social- political divides, race and class divisions, general citizenry deterioration, what kind of society do we have the will to endure? Because before we can build on a new world, its got to settle down from its crumbling first. Then given whats left, what do the people really care to care about?: consideration one! The culture question.. A recent article (May, 2014) cites a 3.2 billion dollar sell of Beats headphones electronics to Apple corp., owned by rapper/ producer Dr. Dre. At 49, this deal could potentially make him the first hip hop billionaire. His current buisness worth stands at 550 million, slightly behind his colleague in hip hop mogul town, Puff Daddy at 700 million. The Apple corp. deal, is its biggest purchase yet. This of course given market movement magic these days, made this a happy deal move. The entire world seems to be trending strongly on all that matters is what makes the cover story. Beyonce graces the cover of Time Magazine( May, 2014), as one of the top 100 most influential individuals today, as her husband, Jay Z( worth at 550 mill( Forbes)), graced the cover of Vanity Fair, aptly tiled, in that cover story calling him, the new chairman of the board. One industry spokesperson stated, this Beats Apple deal,... speaks to a nice young demographic which is really interesting to marketers.... While they ( headphones) are over priced, Daily News reports, But the kids go crazy for them, brings me to feel we are now in a standard of normalcy, where market forces define how much cash you can amass, how much attention you get, and the driving ethic based on what the kids go crazy for. These principles together rule the day in mainstream music enterprises . Popular culture and youth crazes are nothing new, but it sho do feel different now. The question for musicians becomes, where, what, in which format way, and in what marketplace play, is your art relevant if any more in any way? Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? 1897, Paul Gauguin
Posted on: Sat, 10 May 2014 18:38:05 +0000
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