I usually choose music clips featuring the performer and the song. I prefer live performances. I don't like videos with graphic or powerful images because they often distract from the music and I am powerfully affected by the music itself. But this is an exception in two ways. First, this is contemporary music, a 2009 Dash Berlin remix video of the still extant 1980s alternative band, Depeche Mode; and this time it is the powerful video that takes center stage, not the music.
Long after there is peace on the battlefield the war will go on in the lives of its victims, on both sides. This hit single is called Peace but it is about anything but:
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what's your point in including more and more music videos in your
science blog ? Videos with apparantly a political "message".
Do you claim that this message deserves truth and should be
heard just because the music is "good" ? "Good" according to some
sort of taste developed on your cultural background.
That's like trying to export your culture --> imperialism, the thing
which you pretend to be against. Stick to arguments, not music
or distracting populistic headlines with puns or such.
Anon, I feel you are being a tad harsh on Revere's understanding of music culture vis a vis global politics...
Thirty years ago, a generation of Arabic deejays and music lovers gravitated toward a bunch of young white boys from Basildon, Essex, UK -- DM. Why? Interestingly, the answer may be due to the band's unconscious (organic) adoption of British Postcolonial ideals... Some of DM's early 80s music experiments with the "sound" of traditional Arabia, overlaying stark Western sociopolitical lyrics as... Creative transcultural global art!?!
The band's lead singer, Dave Gahan, is a former heroin addict. A significant percentage of his drug consumption would have "supermarket originated" from the poppy plant fields and heroin production culture of Afghanistan.
Given that the personal is always political, I strongly believe Depeche Mode (a significant and influential East-West "/" boundary transcender) would agree more with the opinions of Californian Democrat, Rep. Barbara Lee than US President Obama...
The Final Call -- "From peacemaker to war president" By Askia Muhammad and Brian Muhammad ( Dec 11, 2009 )
Excerpt: âWe can't continue to send more troops and expect different results,â Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus said in a statement. âOur military is already stretched too thin. Afghanistan needs a political solutionânot a military one. Adding more troops won't change this important fact. We've been fighting for eight years, and our strategy isn't working. In fact, things are only getting worseâwe are seeing rising violence, surging drug production, and an increasingly corrupt central government..."
Everybody knows that the only reason US troops are in Afghanistan, is to keep the opium fields in full production. Until we remove all our troops from the middle-east, and do something to solve our problems at home, our reputation in every country is ruined. If I could afford to go anywhere after the damage the neoconservative war/profit-mongers have done to our economy, I would definitely say I was from Canada. I invite you to my pages devoted to raising awareness on these important issues: http://pltcldscsn.blogspot.com/