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Thread #105305   Message #2165708
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
07-Oct-07 - 05:26 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Is folk song really political?
Subject: RE: Folklore: Is folk song really political?
What I wrote was:

songs made up to make money are just commodities; the singer rarely knows or cares what it's about. It's a commercial sound, not part of the soundtrack of their own life. This is not political.

Which might be expressed as: Treating music (or any art) as a commodity renders it non-political because such an attitude is dehumanising and degrading.

While the manufacturing of music for profit might be construed as 'political' in that it is an act of aesthetic vandalism, the content (or lack thereof) is not thereby enhanced to a political level. Rather the opposite.