{"id":1400,"date":"2004-05-21T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/21\/music-as-social-change\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:26:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:26:07","slug":"music-as-social-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/21\/music-as-social-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Music as Social Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silversand.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_top\">Jesse<\/a> wrote a really good comment to my last post and I&#8217;m going to post it here cuz it&#8217;s very good<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>install guerilla public sound art pieces that undermine corporate branding of public spaces, drive folks away from malls the day after thanksgiving, or dovetail with a local activist campaign&#8217;s goals.\n<li>arrange to show interactive sound artworks in middle schools and highschools that engage with political themes and are both rewarding to and demanding of particpants.\n<li>maybe not supercollider so much as protools, but create documentary radio artworks, audio tours, and sound installations on political issues.\n<li>record rallies, teach-ins, other political events, and create online sound archives. use the sound material for sound collages and interactive audio artworks at future political events.\n<li>use experimental music concerts, sound installations, cds, etc., esp. when related to a political event, as fundraising opportunities, or as chances to encourage attendees to participate in upcoming actions. at the very least, set up laptops so folks can sign online petitions, send e-faxes, or whatever.\n<\/ol>\n<p>these are all concrete political actions. less explicitly political stuff, through encouraging critical thinking, introspection, and empathy, might also be an important part of a big social change strategy, but that&#8217;s much sketchier&#8230; that&#8217;s what my interview and survey research project is about.<\/p>\n<p>some of this stuff is difficult because of equipment or money issues. also, experimental music, b\/c of its high cultural capital, and demographic, academic, and elitist associations, has some disadvantages as far as being a tool for social change, but it also has unique advantages: it&#8217;s technological focus, it&#8217;s critique of dichotomies, it&#8217;s embrace of radical contexts for sound, it&#8217;s ability to be something new to people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse wrote a really good comment to my last post and I&#8217;m going to post it here cuz it&#8217;s very good install guerilla public sound art pieces that undermine corporate branding of public spaces, drive folks away from malls the day after thanksgiving, or dovetail with a local activist campaign&#8217;s goals. arrange to show interactive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/21\/music-as-social-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music as Social Change<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3652,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}