Posted on 05/27/2016 7:50:13 AM PDT by bigbob
If you had told 12-year-old me that one day I would be able to listen to pretty much any song I wanted to on demand and also pull up the lyrics as fast as I could type the artist’s name and part of the title into a text box, I would have a) really hoped you weren’t kidding and b) would have wanted to grow up even faster than I already did.
The availability of music today, especially in any place with first world Internet access is really kind of astounding. While the technology to make this possible has come about only recently, the freedom of music listening has been fairly wide open in the US. The closest we’ve come to governmental censorship is the parental advisory sticker, and those are just warnings. The only thing that really stands between kids’ ears and the music they want to listen to is parental awareness and/or consent.
However, the landscape of musical freedom and discovery has been quite different in other corners of the world, especially during the early years of rock ‘n roll. While American teens roller skated and sock-hopped to the new and feverish sounds of Little Richard and Elvis Presley, the kids in Soviet Russia were stuck in a kind of sonic isolation. Stalin’s government had a choke hold on the influx of culture and greatly restricted the music that went out over the airwaves. They viewed Western and other music as a threat, and considered the musicians to be enemies of the USSR.
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Read your own posts.
And?
Bach in the USSR?
I can’t believe I got to the end of this thread and no one said something like, in USSR, music listens to you!
Awesome. Where is that from?
Hahaha my stomach hurts from laughing! There is also apparently a 10 HOUR version someone has put up.
Thanks. Apparently, the Nazis bombed his kindergarten. But they couldn’t stop him singing.
You still doing the modern music pingy thingy?
Our interviewees in “Rockin’ the Wall” mentioned this, but they obtained music in a variety of ways.
You never heard of Rostropovitch playing the six Bach cello Suites,
of Siativslav Richter and Maria Yudina recording the entire Well Tempered Klavier.
This thread gets more clueless with every new post.
It was just a play on the Beatles song title. No tie to anything else at all.
An illustration of how subtlety is not possible with a large audience.
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