Battle of Ideas: Teach the World to Sing

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01 hr 16 min 56 sec

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01.: Introduction

02 min 00 sec

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02.: Music Needs a State

03 min 02 sec

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03.: Political Value of Music

03 min 48 sec

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04.: Teaching Technique

04 min 14 sec

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05.: Composing for New Singers

04 min 58 sec

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06.: "Another Brick in the Wall" Kids

03 min 49 sec

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07.: Drawbacks of Music Manifesto

03 min 20 sec

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08.: Lowbrow Level

05 min 21 sec

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09.: Too Inclusive

02 min 15 sec

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10.: Amateurs

04 min 51 sec

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11.: Audience Questions

11 min 41 sec

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12.: Panel Response

01 min 22 sec

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13.: Questions Round Two

08 min 34 sec

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14.: Nothing Wrong with Elitism

02 min 54 sec

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15.: Parental Role

02 min 24 sec

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16.: Questions Round Three

06 min 16 sec

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17.: Final Thoughts

05 min 50 sec

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Dnyso

Posts: 11

Posted: 12.15.09, 07:02 PM

If the state of music mirrors the soul of state then the broken and de-humanising copyright regime reflects perfectly the crisis that was just starting unfold when this speech was made.

This discussion to me is incredibly depressing, the idea that music is something you have to be good at or something that you can "win" at. Who in their right mind can justify calling Beethoven better than Banjo music for goodness sake?

Music is a good in itself and does not need to justify itself in any way, the idea that you have to be good enough to partake or that it has to be economically viable is unbelievably corrosive and part of the reason for the decline of the Classical tradition.

It is a bit like trying to compute the economic value of chocolate or the value of not killing the destitute infirm and insane. A society that goes down that path is doomed already, no matter how much money it magics up through financial engineering.

I think the audience comments picked up on the weakness of the panel though, which is to their credit, but you can see the "glow" in the moderator when the head of ABRSM gets up to speak. They are part of the problem, not the solution.

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