I am responding to Amy Rosvally's blog. I must say that this isn't the first time I have pondered about the questions she asked. Growing up I did believe in prince charming and I believed that my life would someday follow the theme of a movie. I would be in trouble and then this wonderful handsome stranger would help me and we would fall in love and be together forever. I believed that all of this would happen to me if I lost a few pounds first, OK if I lost ALOT of pounds first. I was a chubby kid who like all girls wanted to have a normal childhood and be a princess. However, seeing in the movies how thin every princess was, it made me feel that love would never come to me and it made me hate myself.
As I grew up I kinda graduated from Disney movies (I will always love the lion king), and started watching music videos and movies for teens and the superficiality of the world was also depicted in that. I wished I could be one of those sports models ,I envied the girls in the music videos and thought of myself as disgusting to look at. I just want to say that Amy you are not exaggerating the truth. You are right, the label that being "beautiful and pretty" holds is so superficial it's disgusting. Where are all the curvy princesses? Why are the ethics of this world so shot? Is there a possibility for change? Can we make a change from superficiality to just taking everyone as beautiful? I commend you Amy, I really do.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Intro to Levitin
Let me start out by saying that I truly admire Levitin even though I only read the introduction. In his into he makes many points that I agree with. He says that scientists and artists follow the same procedure and have the same ends in mind. The are pursuing truth, and expressing their knowledge of a subject ans well as learning at the same time. When I look at it, everything does have music, your local diner, movies, special events, a party isn't a part without music..right?
Music is a powerful thing. It has the power to make you anxious, to make you cry and to make you just feel happy. It is an easy way to manipulate emotions. That is why music is constantly used in movies. Do you think the movie "Psycho" would have been as scary if we didn't hear those shrieking violins during the stabbing in the shower. I was actually taught that they wanted to show the movie in Europe, however officials thought it was too scary. The director did nothing but take out the music from the shower scene and showed it to the officials again and then they approved the movie to be shown in Europe. We listen to music to relax so it can be said that music controls the way the body reacts; It tones down stress.
It seemed interesting to me when he said that some cultures don't distinguish people by talent. Talent most likely isn't in the vocabulary of some cultures because they view everyone equally as singers as dances whether or not they can carry a tune. There are cultures that aren't caught up in the superficial division of talent. I don't think you will see an "American Idol" for the village people He was talking about. I agree with him in many aspects of his argument. Music has become reserved only for certain people. There is a dividing line between singers and those who "don't" or "cannot" sing. We are a hushed culture and we spend our hushed lives listening to the Beyonce's and J'Lo's.
This course is going to deal with the philosophy of music and how can we label what music is. My question is can it be said that any and everyone can make music?? Forget what influence American Idol, America's got talent and other talented based show out there. Can we forget the way society defines music and good singers and be like other cultures and view everyone as talented? Or is the dividing line already so thick that we will continue to have a hushed culture with the "lucky and talented" to perform for us? Can there be change?
Music is a powerful thing. It has the power to make you anxious, to make you cry and to make you just feel happy. It is an easy way to manipulate emotions. That is why music is constantly used in movies. Do you think the movie "Psycho" would have been as scary if we didn't hear those shrieking violins during the stabbing in the shower. I was actually taught that they wanted to show the movie in Europe, however officials thought it was too scary. The director did nothing but take out the music from the shower scene and showed it to the officials again and then they approved the movie to be shown in Europe. We listen to music to relax so it can be said that music controls the way the body reacts; It tones down stress.
It seemed interesting to me when he said that some cultures don't distinguish people by talent. Talent most likely isn't in the vocabulary of some cultures because they view everyone equally as singers as dances whether or not they can carry a tune. There are cultures that aren't caught up in the superficial division of talent. I don't think you will see an "American Idol" for the village people He was talking about. I agree with him in many aspects of his argument. Music has become reserved only for certain people. There is a dividing line between singers and those who "don't" or "cannot" sing. We are a hushed culture and we spend our hushed lives listening to the Beyonce's and J'Lo's.
This course is going to deal with the philosophy of music and how can we label what music is. My question is can it be said that any and everyone can make music?? Forget what influence American Idol, America's got talent and other talented based show out there. Can we forget the way society defines music and good singers and be like other cultures and view everyone as talented? Or is the dividing line already so thick that we will continue to have a hushed culture with the "lucky and talented" to perform for us? Can there be change?
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