I mean, protest music pisses me off, just shut yer mouth and play, music is music, not politics.
I'm sorry but I havr to disagree with this. You only need to look at musical traditions including folk and classical to realise that music has always been a document of the human condition, and as such reflects the concerns and experiences of musicians and composers. Invariably this will include politics.
Yes it's obviously desirable to have a variety of subjects addressed through music rather than just poltiical discourse, but you can't go writing off or banning topics from musical treatment. To do so would to ignore some of the greatest pieces of music ever written - Shostakovitch Symphony 5, a great deal of Stravinsky, much of the 1960's English Folk Revival (not to mention much folk music that dates earlier than this), and finally plenty of contemporary (ie 1960's onwards) rock music. To me at least this would be a real shame.
I trust that those who know me (TO, Dakine et al) understand that I'm not tryign to ruffle feathers here, but this kind of wide sweeping generalisation has come to typify the forum in recent months, much to the detriment of discourse, and I suspect I'm not the only person to feel disgruntled about this.
I'm going to go back to being a grumpy old man in silence now.
*Rahnooo*
