All Encompassing Music

Let’s distinguish music from the profoundness of Communication Study. Let’s detach Music from Adorno and Cultural Hegemony. Let’s see the profoundness in art of writing songs and composing music & tunes. Does not Music give an impression of rising above Religion, Region, Language, Symbols, Beethovan and Mozart? Yes it does. The only thing it demands is our own set of Political Ideology. Through which we can be interpretative of Lyrics and Tunes. Through which we can identify our inner self and the ironical contradiction of our Minds.

Music is not just Tunes and Tones but a realization which can be felt when Roadside filth is full of Street dogs and Small Kids. Music can be an action beyond a bucketful of tears. Music in its essence is a dialectical contributor to History and its contradictions. It’s a soothing comfort to ears then many modern day therapies.

After witnessing the pettiness of Schools and their institutions, Music is a process of Di-Schooling oneself. Music is a Political Will too and a question to the question which life throws at us. Music is a contrast between Epistemologies of Human Knowledge and its reflections. Music is Music.

Here are Five Songs which in a fits or at least try to fit in the above Piece

5- Crystals – Then he kissed me

During the Civil Rights Movement championed by Martin Luther King, American Public was catered with a landmark movie called “Look Who’s Coming for Dinner”. Starring Legendary Black Actor Sydney Poitier, the Film went on to become a Cross Cultural Phenomena. During the same time there was a group of Black girl called ‘The Crystals’, which famously sang the song ‘then he kissed me’ in an African American tone. The tone itself was an opposition to White Chauvinists. Song was a hit that too before the period of 1965. Later on the song was listed as best song number 197 in the all time list of best by Rolling Stones. Crystals went on to score hits like ‘Doo doo Ron Ron’ and ‘he is a Rebel’. The instant success did not lead to a consistent bonding of the members. But their courage of scoring hits in a time of turbulence not only exemplifies the power of art but the overwhelming human spirit as well. ‘Then he kissed me’ sits at number five in my list.

4- Kenny Rogers- Coward of the County

Country and Kenny are synonyms. A humble patriot serves his Country and Kenny Rogers contributes to Country Music. In a vast list of songs like Lady, Lucille, Gambler and he stopped loving; Coward of the County is my choice. Written poignantly and sang eloquently Kenny Rogers boils a boy full with fury in his teenage to defy his father’s advice. Country Songs are very context specific, so in terms of socio economic ironies the genre reflects itself through tinsel town stories and history will always tell that there is no one better than Kenny Rogers. A tribute and Salute to Kenny with the Score “Coward of the County”, the number four of my list.

3-Another Brick in the Wall- Pink Floyd

From Societies to civilizations, this is the song which cuts across all the boundaries. Education and its pedagogical approach have mostly been used as a tool of Dominance. The belief in alternatives is tarnished by this approach. Since there can’t be alternatives, the songs rightfully contempt with the lines “All in all your just a another brick in the wall”. I am not a very big fan of Pink Floyd. But this song has immersed Pink Floyd as one of the most venerated cultural Phenomena. Listen carefully and the song seems to justify our pain and anger after watching the misery around us. At the same time it promptly inspires a positive action of looking Education and its institution with a Healthy skepticism.

2- The End by Doors

Francis Ford Coppola used the song ‘the end’ as an introduction to his Apocalypse Now. Apocalypse now is a strange film of the last century. No other movie dwells with Human Mind as this movie does. Based on the events of Vietnam War, the films demands a uniquely sound entry to Movie and Doors do it quite emphatically. The world then was in firm grip of Ideology and such was that grip that the repercussions seemed little in front of battles. Ideology not only resides in foreign policies but in individuals as well and our parents during their times behaved in an ideological manner. Not like today’s youth which is confused all the time. This song some times creeps as a regret of not being born in that era of attitudes and Ideological battles. The song is Number two.

1- Its a Hard Rain Gonna fall - Bob Dylan

Can there be a better and bigger Counter Culturalist than Bob Dylan. You track the counter argument to establishment and I am sure you are going to listen to the ‘Master of War’ Kind songs. Along with this there is Tumberriene Man, Blowi’n in the wind but there is nothing like It’s a Hard Rain gonna fall. This song is a song of unique prose. Dylan not only attracts our mind to the lyrics but make us question that why do you have to cry, when you have the power to action. The guitar playing is always a flawless charisma in Dylan Playing. This song is too unique and likeable to be describe as my limited reinterpretation. The thing that I can’t write too much about this song makes it my number one song.