{"id":3502,"date":"2012-07-05T10:42:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T14:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2012-07-05T10:45:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T14:45:07","slug":"songs-speaks-about-us-post-fourth-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2012\/07\/05\/songs-speaks-about-us-post-fourth-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs Speaks About US &#8211; Post Fourth Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/dos\/files\/2012\/07\/IMG_2794.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3503\" title=\"IMG_2794\" src=\"\/dos\/files\/2012\/07\/IMG_2794-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2794\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2012\/07\/IMG_2794-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2012\/07\/IMG_2794-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2012\/07\/IMG_2794.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My brief <a title=\"Declaration of Independence\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibits\/charters\/declaration_transcript.html\" target=\"_blank\">236th anniversary<\/a> reflection incorporates \u2013 what else \u2013 music.<\/p>\n<p>I caught a great set of questions from Dorian Lynskey in her book \u2013 on <a title=\"Kenn 2.0 - Summer Reads\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2012\/05\/23\/summer-good-reads-and-sweet-listening\/\" target=\"_blank\">our summer reading list<\/a> \u2013 <em>33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day<\/em> (caught this on page 5 of my e-book):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Does a protest song enliven the politics and the music both, or merely cheapen them? Can its musical merits be separated from its social significance, or does the latter always obscure and distort the former? Does it really have the power to change minds, let alone policies? Does it convey a vital issue to a whole new audience or travesty it by reducing it to a few lines, setting it to a tune, and performing it to people who may or may not give a damn?\u00a0 Is it, fundamentally, a gripping and necessary art form or just bad art and lousy entertainment?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I only ask if the people who put these songs together are the true and tough patriots? And, are these really their love songs?<\/p>\n<p>And \u2013 of course \u2013 the <a title=\"Spotify - The 236th Anniversary Playlist\" href=\"http:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/kennelmore\/playlist\/2nNXKyZJsPbT5BHMiWZe3X\" target=\"_blank\">236 Anniversary Playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brief 236th anniversary reflection incorporates \u2013 what else \u2013 music. I caught a great set of questions from Dorian Lynskey in her book \u2013 on our summer reading list \u2013 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day (caught this on page 5 of my e-book): Does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}