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Music and Values

Posted: 11th August 2010 by bug in All, Opinions

For those rare musicians infected with a desire to create true original music an understanding of the relationship between a composer and his work is beneficial. At the core of this relationship is the idea that music reflects a musician’s values. What are values and how are they expressed in music?
A value is something that [...]

Kurt Cobain and the Art of Destruction

Posted: 8th July 2009 by bug in All, Opinions

 The term ‘Generation X’ was used by novelist Douglas Coupland in 1991 to describe a generation of twenty-somethings who were “fanatically independent individuals, pathologically ambivalent about the future and brimming with unsatisfied longings for permanence, for love, and for their own home.” As front man for the Seattle-based music group Nirvana and one of the [...]