Dorian Breh
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Chopin and Tchaikovsky put out everything from panty droppers to war music
Why Has The World Pretended For So Long That Classical Music Isn’t Trash?
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Warren Peace
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Trash and soulless music.
DaKidFromNoWhere
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I hope some of ya'll know some of your favorite songs use the same chord progressions, ain't nothing new.
Plus let your favorite producers sample it and throw some boom bap drums or 808's on it and you will be like.
Plus let your favorite producers sample it and throw some boom bap drums or 808's on it and you will be like.
Because
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I hope some of ya'll know some of your favorite songs use the same chord progressions, ain't nothing new.
Plus let your favorite producers sample it and throw some boom bap drums or 808's on it and you will be like.
Shhhhhhh, don't tell them......
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This should work.....
Maybe not.
Maybe not.
It's structured, but definitely not soulless. You hear the emotional beats of it throughout - anger, frustration, calmness, happiness, joy all evoke throughout.
This is probably the best post in this thread. I enjoyed this video very much when it came out.
I love many types of music including Western classical particularly more experimental and modernist stylings. However, Western classical music’s reputation has more to do with European colonial ideals about harmony, tonality, melodic phrasing and aesthetics than it does the the actual music. Many cultures have art or classical music.
Contrary to what Westerners think, Africans also have art and classical forms of music. It’s just that it doesn’t not meet the criteria of what makes Western classical music and thus it gets demoted to “folk music” or “ethnomusic”.
It’s racism-white supremacy in musical form.
The complex lamellophone (mbira/sanza/kalimba/karimba) musical culture of Zimbabwe is a form of classical music but gets demoted to “folk” music because Europeans said so. The music has a rich high culture associated with that not everyone can understand or access. The lamellophonic cultural music of Zimbabwe that exists amongst the Shona, Venda, San, Nambya, Kalanga and Tswana- has a rich aesthetic, dramatic and artistic context which cannot be ignored. It is not written but it is codified and expressed in its own unique and high cultural way. This is just one example from the continent and I haven’t even touched on jazz, Afro-Cuban music and other diasporic art styles.
So much of what we think and believe about music, art, physical beauty, architecture, history and philosophy has been distorted by the European savagery that was colonialism. Western classical music is beautiful but it is not the only beautiful music nor is it the most beautiful. Just my 0.02 as a Zimbabwean American music lover
Contrary to what Westerners think, Africans also have art and classical forms of music. It’s just that it doesn’t not meet the criteria of what makes Western classical music and thus it gets demoted to “folk music” or “ethnomusic”.
It’s racism-white supremacy in musical form.
The complex lamellophone (mbira/sanza/kalimba/karimba) musical culture of Zimbabwe is a form of classical music but gets demoted to “folk” music because Europeans said so. The music has a rich high culture associated with that not everyone can understand or access. The lamellophonic cultural music of Zimbabwe that exists amongst the Shona, Venda, San, Nambya, Kalanga and Tswana- has a rich aesthetic, dramatic and artistic context which cannot be ignored. It is not written but it is codified and expressed in its own unique and high cultural way. This is just one example from the continent and I haven’t even touched on jazz, Afro-Cuban music and other diasporic art styles.
So much of what we think and believe about music, art, physical beauty, architecture, history and philosophy has been distorted by the European savagery that was colonialism. Western classical music is beautiful but it is not the only beautiful music nor is it the most beautiful. Just my 0.02 as a Zimbabwean American music lover
Ol’Otis
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Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
I’ll through on some Curtis Mayfield in a hot second
them nikkas had all them strings and pianos and ain't use not one drum. Alchemist and Daringer would be proud.