The song ‘Born in the USA’ has been used in iconic – and ironic – ways.
An example is in 1984, when Ronald Reagan used the song in his reelection and announced that Bruce Springsteen and him shared the same American dream. The Boss vehemently disagreed.
The Science of Music How Technology Has Shaped the Evolution of an Artform by Andrew May, 2023
Music is shaped by the science of sound. How can music - an artform - have anything to do with science? Yet there are myriad ways in which the two are intertwined, from the basics of music theory and the design of instruments to hi-fi systems and how the brain processes music.
Black Opry, a blog-turned-movement focusing on Black roots musicians, is fundraising to help cover the costs of expanding their work! Please chip in if you're able, and share it around.
Beethoven is A great composer, but not THE great composer, according to a music professor who believes it’s time to reframe Beethoven’s greatness “within the context of historic ideals of whiteness and patriarchy.”
“If Americans could acknowledge that our music and music education are deeply rooted in these two ideologies, then we could realize that Beethoven, surely a good composer, was simply one of many.”
Hi Masto, I'm home. The day began with the wind and rain which had me wanting to listen only to The Cure during my commutes and while I was prepping for class. Can the eyeliner be far behind. I jest. My eyes are far too sensitive for eye makeup these days and all of my fancy eye makeup palettes are going to waste.
It was an okay day. Another Drama Lab with my Oral Literacy MA Students. Their big project for this semester is connected to The Lady's Not For Burning. My approach to Oral Literacy is Oral Literacy x Pop Culture x Performance Studies. I'm enjoying it! I always enjoy teaching performance as it takes me back to some of those roots (I did two years of a performance studies x literature PhD before I defected fully to lit to be a Gothic scholar)
“MEKONG DELTA BLUESMAN” Son Vo tells the story of his life both offstage and on. From an early childhood in Saigon to a hardscrabble life in Maine to discovering his gift for music, Vo relates some wild adventures in a voice full of warmth and hope. B PLUS
The famous #graduation song is a send-off fit for a king! It was originally written for the coronation of King Edward VII in 1901, but evolved to be used during ceremonies for accomplished graduates.
When the lyrics give you an appreciation for a genre outside your usual vibe. #affirmations#takeupspace#music#runnergirl#neurospicy@autisticadvocacy
Competing and comparison is a no for me though
My growth is not replicable or copy-friendly
I'm powerful beyond measure
The version of me others created in their mind
Is not my responsibility
I normalize saying no when others want too much from me
I uproot any soul ties of attachment that has held me hostage
I've been earwormed by this song a lot and I love the translation of the delightful lyrics, but I'm going to write the title as "Gender Queer" going forward as that is more faithful to the lyrics than the literal title "雌雄同體" (by 五月天/Mayday) and the English translation of that phrase is potentially offensive to intersex people.
Hey, neat! Thank you! It's an "imagination engine" - the original mod @Arotrios kbin.social wrote a detailed description here.
I never really fully got my head around it but it seems to be a combination of art, poetry, music, cinema, mythology, etc and a lot of the posts in it bounce off other posts in it.
Book 30, 2024: Dark Lustre, fifth instalment - Roy Wilkinson
The penultimate volume of this story sees Tommy Quantox dice with death at Berchtesgaden, while The Countess Marie-José de la Barre d’Erquelines Hextet play a gig with Die Leeren Dosen, a four-strong female band that perform instrumental versions of Can songs. #Books#Reading#Fiction#SeaPower#Music@bookstodon
Book 29, 2024: Sing Backwards and Weep - Mark Lanegan
This autobiography by the late Screaming Trees singer is viscerally open and honest about his early life, and his various addictions. The ins and outs of being a musician take a back seat to the stories of his addictions, first to alcohol, then to heroin and crack.
Drug stories can be tedious for the reader but what comes across is how utterly exhausting it is to be a junkie, the hustling for a fix, the scrabbling around for a connection.
With a deep openness about his failings and, this is a brutally honest portrait of the depths of his addiction.
He also writes about his relationships with the likes of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, both of whom are incredibly generous to him. There’s also a terrific chapter about his run-in with Liam Gallagher: “Fuck off, you stupid fucking idiot” is his opening line to the Oasis goon. And his dislike for his Trees bandmates is hilarious at times. #Music#RockMusic#Books#Reading#Autobiography@bookstadon
Currently keeping me aural company while I work (I woke up, couldn't go back to sleep and decided to dive back into the blasted article), Noveller's Fantastic Planet (2015)
Hot take: The song Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves is about a woman who has a delusion about someone who wants nothing to do with her. #music
#NowReading - adored every damn page of steve waksman's "this ain't the summer of love," broadly about the unceasing #metal / #punk / #underground collision, but beautifully granular, connecting micro-scenes to #musicology. it equally brought alive conversations i know about in detail (punk), ones i don't (metal), & made me thirsty to read more #zines, listen to more #music, etc.. combined with his masterful "live music in america," i now wanna read everything waksman has written. @bookstodon
While its good to see that books still hold their own (in revenue generating terms) with films & music (they outperform both), the big news is that video games generated more revenue globally than books & music combined.
As someone who has never played a video game, but reads a lot of books, I'm not sure how I feel about this... but it tells us something about where the globe's creative & receptive energies seem to be spent.
Plain Reading is up with another episode! Join us for a great conversation with #religion and #music scholar Dirk von der Horst. We're talking #time, committed communities, and more—plus, lots of links in the notes to oh-so-many versions of #poem and space #opera Aniara!
What some Lemmy communities that are dead or very low number of new posts that you would like to get more active?
My pick is /c/albumartporn