On Thursday 01 July 2010 10:01:04 Joep L. Blom wrote: > Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > I'll go even further than that. In many cases these days music is > > designed to act as a form of prozac and distraction from the real issues > > that we are constantly being subjected to in our daily lives. In the > > past music was a way for people to express ideas and get across often > > subversive messages from different lands and peoples to a mass audience. > > These days popular music and any music that aims to be popular struggles > > to educate people about the bigger picture if not actively avoids the > > most important topics. At best a cursory glance is assigned that is > > swiftly dealt with by flashy graphics and naked bodies flaunting their > > warez. The industrial media and entertainment complex is abused to > > deliver trite, sexually provocative and erotically stimulating drivel. > > The constant merciless barrage of crap that we are subjected to by the > > modern music industry is just another way of keeping us in check by the > > few heriditary elite who own the empires and print the cash that funds > > the industry. They should be paying us to listen to the majority of the > > crap we are served not the other way around. > > > > I personally can't wait for it the industry to collapse under the weight > > of it's own greed. > > There was a Roman emperor - Calligula - who spoke the historic words:" > Give the people bread and games (and let us ,the elite, do what we > want." So nothing has changed. > The pulp and garbage which is pushed as "music" makes the listeners into > 11-year old imbeciles whose only goal is to slave for their money, give > it to the establishment and get - apparently enslaving - rubbish back. > > I'm a performing jazz musician now and was an IT consultant before (I am > retired). What I earned then in half a day a never get in a set of gigs > in a week. The hours spent in rehearsing, arranging, etc. are of course > never paid. But, as many say: "it's your own choice" and that is right. > I can not exist one day without playing the piano and when people want > to pay to listen to me, that's OK . I play for myself and thankfully > don't need it for my daily bread and butter. > However, the company who will pay thousands of Euro's (I'm from the > Netherlands) for me as IT-consultant to change some small and often > insignificant business aspect in his organisation will not pay more than > € 300,- for a 3 hour gig with a quartet (including travel etc. and > including tax). > > All talk in this thread about copyright and laws etc. is only > interesting for those who publish their work (either as CD or as > downloadable tracks) but I never have these problems as we only play > originals or standards in our own arrangements and if anybody want to > play it, they're wellcome and I'll even give them the arrangements if > they want. > We play sometimes for the local radio. They transmit it and anybody can > record it and burn in to a CD. Is that an infringement on my rights? No, > as I have given that to the station. > > In my opinion in Jazz and classical music, this problem is negligible, > at least in my network (mostly performing classical and jazz musicians). > I have however no idea how this is in music I never listen to. But I > assume that I'm of a much older generation. Someone else having some thoughts on jazz and copyright: Are Bad Copyright Laws Killing Jazz And Harming Jazz Musicians? http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100615/0255059823.shtml > Joep all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
