Learning from Music

[The Guy]

I know it's only a small step towards understanding a very small international view on our current system, but I believe listening to and annotating music can help you to understand the beliefs of others in a different yet unique way. Take artists such as Lowkey, Tupac Shakur and even rock band Social Distortion. They all have an anarchist flair or a speak about equality. Please do post any songs you know of which are fairly in-depth and can allow other members to be left and musically influenced:


2pac - Changes

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Social Distortion - Don't Drag Me Down

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[fa2991]

Ew. 2Pac.

[Sir Comradical]

2pac, one of the most overrated rappers in history. Complete hypocrite too, in one song he's all about respecting women, while in drunk interviews he says stuff like "when hoes get horny, niggaz die...".

Case in point

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[Fawkes]

I know it's only a small step towards understanding a very small international view on our current system, but I believe listening to and annotating music can help you to understand the beliefs of others in a different yet unique way. Take artists such as Lowkey, Tupac Shakur and even rock band Social Distortion. They all have an anarchist flair or a speak about equality. Please do post any songs you know of which are fairly in-depth and can allow other members to be left and musically influenced:


2pac - Changes

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Social Distortion - Don't Drag Me Down

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I'm not going to address the pac thing cause that's already been done, but you're definitely right. Music and art serve as unprecedented oral histories of a culture and its peoples at any given time which is generally far more insightful and informative than more generally accepted academics means. People too often discount the revolutionary significance of music, such as the ability for rock and roll to greatly aid in the destruction of a racially segregated society that existed in the 1950s in the U.S., and obviously continues to to this day, but not with the same severity as it had at one point. Music doesn't have a color or a class, which is what's so great about it.

Anyway, this should probably be moved to music, but I ain't a mod.

[RadioRaheem84]

Two words: Manu Chao :thumbup1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCWVZyjz0Cw