{"id":8605,"date":"2018-01-17T06:14:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=8605"},"modified":"2018-01-17T06:14:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:14:20","slug":"sparks-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=8605","title":{"rendered":"Sparks of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A bit of fire<\/strong> represented by sunlit shrubbery all photographed yesterday might counterbalance Monday’s water\u00a0and Tuesday’s ashes, I thought. Well, the colors of fire.<\/p>\n

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For the written bit I’ll focus on the fury<\/strong>, however. More specifically, the fury we find in current music that is reacting to the age of Trump. \u00a0The link below is a thoughtful and comprehensive take on contemporary protest music, describing musicians we all know, and also several many of us might not be familiar with.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2018\/01\/trump-protest-music-one-year-dorian-lynskey\/550268\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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The article is an interview with the U.K. music critic Dorian Lynskey who wrote a book, 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs\u00a0<\/em>in 2011 and now talks about the boom in music explicitly protesting against the current state of affairs. He claims that Trump elicited more protest music than previous political figures because he is so detested and so much the focus of what is going on. Only wars have been able to generate more protest music than despicable public figures.<\/p>\n

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Lynskey points out that protest music had already seen an upswing around the evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement and the increasing polarization that people were willing to risk, in the entertainment business, under Trump. An example is\u00a0Eminem\u2019s freestyle\u2014if you\u2019re a fan of Trump and you\u2019re a fan of me, I\u2019m drawing a line, which side are you on? <\/i>People are willing to lose parts of the audience (unless they are country\u00a0music singers who stay silent. And of course there is Ted Nugent…) Many of the ideas expressed in current protest music are not just dealing with the ugliness of Trump and his minions, but about the ideas of America. The songs tackle how we are going backwards due to greed and hunger for power, how so many feel powerless and in mourning.<\/p>\n