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"Unpatriotic" music?
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This feature is taken from E.A.9.11, Group 5.
See the entire discussion: "not patriotic enough".
I have a problem with something that just happened in my school. I play drums in band, and we're going to a national competition in April. We were playing a peice entitled "Dresden" and it was a memorial type thing for the city of Dresden, Germany where the Allied Troops bombed in 1945. The air caught on fire and it was a firestorm thing.
We'd been working on this peice for months and it sounded really good. We played it in the school concert and got a ton of great reviews on it. But, then, the day after the concert, my band director told us to pass them in, "we're not playing this when we go to the competition". My brother and a few of his friends asked why and she said that the school had told her "you did a wonderful job on it, but you're going to be representing the school. We feel this song isn't patriotic enough." And all because before we played the song, our band director had us read an article about it to the audience and it said something to the effect of "the Allies ended up missing any sites in the city that could have been of any advantage in the War effort. Both the train station and the barrocks were left untouched, and mostly women, children, and the elderly were killed."
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andrew |
09:29pm Mar 25, 2002 EST |
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You know that is really strange, about your band. I am in a singing group at my school. We sang "Ohio." It's about the four antiwar protesters who were killed by the National Guard on a campus protest. Its words are "find the cost of freedom buried in the ground, mother earth will swallow you, lay your body down".
This is not a patriotic song, but, by being sung post sept 11, it took on a new meaning. I don’t think I need to tell anyone where the cost of freedom is buried.
Wasn't that song about Kent State? I think I've heard that before. Either that or it's a different song. Is it by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, do you know?
I agree. It should take a new meaning. This piece we did could take a new meaning, too. But I think my school had a problem with our band director making a comment that could be taken that the US screwed up on something. No matter how long ago.
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Sergei |
02:27pm Mar 27, 2002 EST |
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Ugh. I'm not even IN a school band like that, and that concept, that there's something wrong with a song that "could be taken that the US screwed up on something", deeply disturbs me. Gladly it hasn't touched the radio stations. I still hear songs with horrors-of-Amerika themes being played on various channels. (Does anyone remember the hoax about Clear Channel putting out a list of songs they were forbidden to play after September 11?)
I've also noticed the band named Anti-flag grow immensely in popularity after September. They're a group that was until recently indie, anyone heard of them?
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