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Re: The media / corporate monopolies don't decide [message #55492 is a reply to message #55486] |
Fri, 18 August 2006 05:48 |
Damir
Messages: 1005 Registered: May 2009
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Totally disagreee, and I`ll illustrate this again with former Yugoslavia situation, an extreme example. From `77-`79. there are some punk/new wave bands, especially in "western" parts of Yu. Those bands were totally ignored by the radio, TV, recording companies and press, even "sotonized" from time to time like negative example. There`re not many places where you can play, and many concerts were registered like some other shows, etc. One friend of mine (who has punk band 1977. , at the same time like others in London:-) ), actually was forced to bring the texts of the songs in the local Communists party committee - of course, he changed the lyrics a bit for that purpose :-). There`re comissions in recording companies who ordered what can be recorded. Even light politics critique were censored, and those LPs are taxed with special large taxes, and marked with "trash" stickers! And you usually can`t find those LPs almost anywhere. And foreign records were selected, too - Sex Pistols were never published in former Yu, but we all (my high-school company) have their records, haha. Eventually, a few very good band appeared, one was "Azra"...those guys played every f... day in every f... village and the city. Usually no posters, commercials, anything - just the word from the mouth. This band becomes so huge and popular (despite their sharp and politics lyrics), then one recording company recorded their first LP, 1980. I remember how I traveled 40km to the another city, where you`d can bought this LP at the time - by auto-stop...whole f... day, there weren`t enough petrol and just a few cars were on the roads. This band have had so big success in former Yu, than THEY started to order the rules of this r`n`r game, some freedom walls was broken, and many smaler new-wave groups recorded their songs, too. Even then, official TV and radios rarely played this music, but who cared for them, anyway...
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Re: The media / corporate monopolies don't decide [message #55496 is a reply to message #55495] |
Fri, 18 August 2006 11:21 |
Damir
Messages: 1005 Registered: May 2009
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Well, we obviously have different views what`s art and the way it "must" be expressed. If some good artist paint a picture, and it wasn`t shown on largest TV channel in America - than it doesn`t exists (both artist and the picture)? "Re-exploring the same arguments that there are ways to express your art that can reach those who really are interested just don't hold up in practice." Not true. Many people really interested in some art forms/artists will find a way to specific painter and his atelier/paintings - this is happened all the time. If you think that his art must be shown on "Discovery" channel, than you are wrong. And today you have many, many ways of sharing art forms, songs for example, unknown only 10 years ago. The band can have their own studio, recording label and Internet (downloading) page, plus fanzine, various forums, various places for concerts, alternative radios, connections with fans, everything. And what`s "tightly concentrated control of the mediums" that somehow prevents the access of the art to the poor people? Even in Stalin`s USSR there`re many artists banned or unliked by the goverment, but many reached domestic and international success. And somehow, art is a personal, original thing, usually "out of the stream"... You probably won`t hear some classical music/composers on TV...does it means that the "access" to the classical music is somehow banned? Today you can have all sorts of informations about such a music, you can download it, even buy CDs, all on-line...
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