Thursday, 1 August 2024

music and politics go hand in hand

Music is very political...

RELIGION:

What's the difference between folk, classical and pop music?

Afghan Folk Music - Babolale - YouTube

Traditional Afghan Music on Rubab and Santur - "Pareshe Jal" (The Flight of the Lark) - YouTube

AFGHANISTAN 🇦🇫 TOP 40 SONGS - MUSIC CHART 2021 (POPNABLE AFGHAN) - افغاني سندرې - YouTube

What problem have the Taliban got with music?

Afghanistan: Taliban burn ‘immoral’ musical instruments - BBC News

When the music stops: how the Taliban’s fear of art is killing Afghan culture | Global development | The Guardian

And Christian fundamentalists?

Why Christians Shouldn’t Listen to Secular Music

Back in the 1920s, parent groups and a good many clerics were much exercised by the seductive, destructive power of jazz and the blues. The devil's music, they called it, as late as the mid-1950s.

The Devil's Music - The Washington Post

But what about this?

JP Cooper - Call My Name (Gospel / Live) - YouTube

RACE:

Is this "cultural appropriation" - or stealing someone else's music?

BIG MAMA THORNTON - Live YOU AIN'T NOTHING BUT A HOUND DOG - YouTube

Elvis Presley - Hound Dog (1956) HD 0815007 - YouTube

Is Country Music 'white'?

Beyoncé: Singer praised for 'impressive' country album Cowboy Carter - BBC News

Beyoncé’s country album drowns out the Black music history it claims to celebrate | Beyoncé | The Guardian

Beyonce just dropped the most exciting country album of the year. What a pity Nashville didn’t want it | The Independent

BREXIT:

Flashmob Flash Mob - Ode an die Freude ( Ode to Joy ) Beethoven Symphony No.9 classical music - YouTube

Brexiters boycott choral festival over EU’s Ode to Joy | Choral music | The Guardian

Jay Doubleyou: barenboim and education

Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance | BBC Proms 2014 - BBC - YouTube

FOLK:

In the UK and US it's about 'protest':

Joan Baez performs "We Shall Overcome" at the March on Washington - YouTube

Seth Lakeman - Kitty Jay - YouTube

On the Continent it's more conservative:

Oompah band beer hall. Munich, Germany. October 2015 - YouTube

It's something young people are into:

Отава Ё - Про Ивана Groove (русское готическое R'N'B) - Otava Yo - YouTube

Trio Mandili - Svanuri - YouTube

FINALLY:

Jay Doubleyou: how classical music brings people together

Music and politics - Wikipedia

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