Archive for the ‘Music’ category

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From Patriot Music to White Music

November 19, 2009

 
This month’s issue of American Renaissance has an article by one Ellison Lodge on country music going anti-racist.  A song by a singer named Brad Paisley is mentioned for his song “Welcome to the Future.”  The video is incredibly painful. A bunch of kids, a majority of whom are nonwhite, say what they’re going to [...]

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The Untrained Ear

August 7, 2009

I previously wrote that I don’t like modern music. When I first heard Arnold Schoenberg, I thought his works were to music what postmodern art is to painting or Foucaultism is to philosophy: the product of a society that feels the need to spit in the face of good taste. At least one [...]

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Music Since 1945

August 4, 2009

R.J. Stove wrote A Student’s Guide to Music History last year. It somehow manages to give you a quick 100 some page overview of the history of what is the crowning achievement of Western art. Like with everything else though, music has gone downhill very fast since 1945
Throughout these lands [the Western democracies]-via [...]