How and Why Socially Conscious Music Artists and Superfans Will Vanquish Trump
Stephen (Steve) Lovemedium.com
How and Why Socially Conscious Music Artists and Superfans Will Vanquish Trump
Music has no purpose, it merely brings together people’s dreams, fragilities, licentiousness and weirdness. It can bring masses of people together through that. As much as those in the underground find each other, so do the Swifties and The ARMY. Scale, here, doesn’t stop the human capacity of bonding through music and the exchange of identity.
Maarten Walraven • ✘ The Illusion of an idea - a scaled-down music industry
Trump and Brexit were supported by many people who still enjoyed political power but who feared that they were losing their economic worth.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The combination of these two seemingly incompatible factors—the heroic quality of the music and the systematic ill treatment of the people who made it—imparted particular resonance to the egalitarian elements in jazz, turning it into a powerful engine for social change.
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
A perfect example of this is the song “What About Us?” by Brandy.