Thursday, 9 June 2011
Cultural Tales in Music and Fairy Tales
In cultural tales such as music and fairy stories; they are tales that are hidden messages or guidance to these who are aware. These songs and tales for children and people of all ages are cloaked with creativity and are beautiful.
Tales and songs such as Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll, The Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, and Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. They are tales for us as people to listen to, from those who have had these experiences. Who are wanting to tell us all, what to look out for in our every-day life. As well as how to behaviour and respond to difficulties and what issues you need to understand.
This type of story-telling has been happening since and before medieval times. Lewis Caroll wrote his Alice stories for his daughter to help understand how to grow into a well adjusted young women. Frankie Mercury wrote Bohemian Rhapsody to inform people of his life, as a gay man and how he coped as a gay young man, believe it or not, to these how wish to hear. But to some all these tales are just entertainment but to the clever all the information is there, and as clear as day.
The way these tales are written they are meant to hold your attention and make you enter into the world of the singer or the characters in a fictional story. Or are they just fictional tales? Written in such a way to introduce you to a world of decision-making and awareness to help you understand a way of life, or help you understand; if you take a certain path in life you must understand the circumstances you will be in.
Tales such as the Ugly Duckling are in the same frame of storytelling as the songs and tales I have spoken about here, its a tale of comforting these who are persecuted by their looks these situations well not last forever.
Story-telling is an important practise and it will be with us forever. It needs to be nurtured and the songwriter and storybook writer should be upheld in the same position as politicians, as they inform people with greater knowledge then politicians ever well.
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
What is High and Low Brow Culture ?
As we all know; art, fashion and music can be seen as low brow or high brow culture, but who defines the nature of what is high or low culture aesthetics? Why should you have to ?
As long as you enjoy your own cultured environment why should you be defined by a genre or tribe. Is it important to be identified as so ? It can be a mind-field defining oneself and fitting into such a niche.
For instance if your are a hip hop obsessive fetishist how are you defined in cultural society. Does that make you a cyber punk or Pharrell Williams ? Who is an a advent garde musician/artist. That also brings into question the definition of what can Lady Gaga can defined as or why she or Pharrell Williams have to be defined at all, but when an artist is original aren't they avant garde ?
Bring a sense of adventure and the unexpected to the cultural world? Making our existence more interesting or in Lady Gaga defined reality creating a extended recognition to all people who love being original and a undefined aesthetic.
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