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July
@july
Songs are a vehicle, much like poetry is a vehicle, to communicate complex ideas in a simple way to a lot of people at once. Songs are easy to sing (participate) but still convey the emotion; the frustration, the anger, the hope that things will get better over time, and the eventual overcoming
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July
@july
Look at all of the national anthems - they are all songs about victory and overcoming against tyranny of some sort: La Marseillaise, Star Spangled Banner, Hatikvah - and so many more - all about overcoming, and hope
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July
@july
Songs can be good or bad messages - think of all the Nazi song s - great propaganda to spread the spirit of nazism that everyone can sing along to - or “Siren” calls in the Odyssey, you literally have to plug your ears so you don’t hear it or you will fall prey to its pretty trap
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
Book VIII of Aristotle’s Politics — It’s always shocks me that he ends Politics by discussing education, and that music is the center of true education. (He says that music — more than any art — is able to imitate states of human character. And unlike poetics, it can speak to the irrational part of soul)
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Tell me where this vehicle takes you: song.link/https://music.apple.com/us/album/wounds-of-love/1587337521?i=1587337689
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Matt
@mattlee
The power of songs for collective memorization is insane. Almost anyone can tell me the next sentence if I say “bye bye miss American pie” and none of them made an effort to remember that
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ManuAlzuru🥑
@manu
You keep posting things that resonate so much with me! Thank you for sharing your wisdom🙏🏽
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