"The military, prison, and financial policies of the U.S. government are interrelated, creating a social system that is repressive and offensive to human dignity for people who experience it, especially the marginalized, the poor, the 'Third World'. The poor in America are filling the prisons and the 'Third World' are the fodder on the other end of the bombs in America's wars. In categorizing the abuse of power that is undertaken by institutions operating 'above the law' or through State privilege, the deprival of life by government policies through war and the deprival of liberty to individuals through imprisonment are particularly fundamental problems that relate to the basic human rights every person should enjoy equally. Capitalism is being used as a justification for these actions historically by American policies, leadership, and their rhetoric... When you discuss what the alternatives to the 'corruption' that favors the 1% or represents only a fraction of the 1% who are permitted an active or consequential role in politics, it seems that #ows is suggesting an alternative of direct, active, particpative democracy that is also interested in a reform of policy according to moral standards." + Understanding #ows - Noam Chomsky Interview

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cultural forms are taken as socially determined product
Lady Gaga as Activist
A public voice & leader against Homophobia - Submitted by: Sara Riverston

Lady Gaga represents the celebrity lifestyle in America, with its glamour, riches, and fame, living by a different set of rules than the majority of the people but attempting to develop an artistic and cultural justification for extreme behavior. Lady Gaga clearly follows and builds upon the performance art patterns of previous pop artists and “divas” in the music industry such as Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Beyonce, Courtney Love, and others who seek the ultimate heights of fame in society through shocking and border-transgressing behavior that attracts extreme attention in the media environment.

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Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul in 1959
Like a Rolling Stone
How Bob Dylan portrays transient figures in lyrics - Submitted by: Walt Sonnabend

The lyrics of Bob Dylan's classic song "Like a Rolling Stone" are based in the philosophy of the Beat movement in the 1950's and 1960's in America, which were heavily influenced by the tenets of Eastern mysticism and European romanticism. The year 1965 represented a turning point and evolution in the American counter-culture movement, changing from being a minority, underground experience to becoming a mainstream, commercial event with the advent of rock’n’roll. The Beat Movement as represented by Kerouac, Ginsburg, Burroughs, and many other poets, musicians, mystics, artists, and free-thinkers was conceived in the 1950’s, existing in avant garde centers like Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco or Greenwich Village in New...

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'Rastafari are monotheists, worshipping a singular God whom they call Jah. Rastas see Jah as being in the form of the Holy Trinity, that is, Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Rastas say that Jah, in the form of the Holy Spirit (incarnate), lives within the human, and for this reason they often refer to themselves as "I and I" to emphasize the equality between all people, in the recognition that the Holy Spirit within us all makes us essentially one and the same. Rastas accept the Christian doctrine that God incarnated onto the Earth in the form of Jesus Christ, to give his teachings to humanity. However, they feel his teachings were corrupted by Babylon.'
+ Rastafarianism - Main Sects

‎'There are three main sects or orders of Rastafari today... The Nyahbinghi Order (a.k.a. Theocratic Priesthood and Livity Order of Nyabinghi) is named for Queen Nyahbinghi of Uganda, who fought against colonialists in the 19th century. This is the oldest of the orders and it focuses mainly on Haile Selassie, Ethiopia, and the eventual return to Africa. It is overseen by an Assembly of Elders. Bobo Shanti was founded by Prince Emanuel Charles Edwards in Jamaica in the 1950s. "Bobo" means black and "Shanti" refers to the Ashanti tribe in Ghana, from which this sect believes Jamaican slaves are descended. Members of Bobo Shanti are also known as Bobo Dreads... The Twelve Tribes of Israel sect was founded in 1968 by Dr. Vernon "Prophet Gad" Carrington. It is the most liberal of the Rastafarian orders and members are free to worship in a church of their choosing. Each member of this sect belongs to one of the 12 Tribes (or Houses), which is determined by birth month and is represented by a color.'
+ Rastafarianism - Main Sects

‎‎"Ten years spent in solitary confinement by a group of Rastafarian prisoners in Virginia, who have been kept in lockdown for refusing to cut the beards and dreadlocks they wear in service of their religious beliefs. Beyond the violation of these inmates’ right to freely practice their religion, what this case confirms is the inequitable, arbitrary, and often capricious way in which solitary confinement is used in America’s prisons."
+ Prison Watch - Rastafarians

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Assamese Traditional Music Collective
World Music Preservation
Indigenous Music Recording & Database Project - Submitted by: Jon Akash

This business plan is for an indigenous music support group which will focus on working with native musicians from around the world with the aim of recording, preserving, and transmitting traditional cultural music in digital formats. The aim of this group is to register and establish a NGO that will be able to operate internationally from an office in the United Kingdom and manage a website that will publish information on indigenous music traditions around the world, as well as offering downloads of traditional music recordings via MP3 on the web. The NGO will seek to develop projects in indigenous communities with traditional musicians to directly record, publish, and archive culturally significant songs in native or tribal languages.

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Style: nihilism, ironic cynicism, & the purposelessness
The “Viral” Nature Hymn
Subcultural Media Practices: Punk Culture - Submitted by: Tech Streets

Dick Hebdige wrote one of the first and most influential studies into the nature of identity and communication in punk culture with the publication of “Sub-Culture: The Meaning of Style” in 1978 during the time when the first punk bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Ramones, and others were forming in urban centers in the UK and America. In his study, Hebdige emphasize the way “conspicuous consumption,” or consumer behavior patterns with symbolic or ideological meaning, were reflected in punk subculture through style, fashion, and popular art.

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Wendy Carlos - Composed the Moog Music for Kubrick
'A Clockwork Orange' at 50
Nadsat & Rhetorical Analysis of Burgess' Use of Language - Submitted by: Stephanie Grant

The novel ‘A Clockwork Orange’ was published in 1962 in London by Anthony Burgess and the William Heinemann Press located in Covent Garden. According to Anthony Burgess’ official biographer Andrew Biswell, the dystopian future society depicted in the novel ‘A Clockwork Orange’ (1962) was charged symbolically with the political atmosphere of the Cold War and the legacy of European fascism and totalitarianism. Burgess was interested in Russian literature and traveled to the USSR in 1961 to tour the country in the Soviet era, during a time when few Westerners were permitted behind the Iron Curtain.

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Experiments in Musical Intelligence - EMI

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"Emmy was once the world’s most advanced artificially intelligent composer. She produced thousands of scores in the style of classical heavyweights, scores so impressive that classical music scholars failed to identify them as computer-created. Cope attracted praise from musicians and computer scientists, but his creation raised troubling questions: If a machine could write a Mozart sonata every bit as good as the originals, then what was so special about Mozart?"

 
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