{"id":2671,"date":"2013-09-01T17:12:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T22:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2013-09-01T17:13:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T22:13:40","slug":"is-music-still-substantial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/01\/is-music-still-substantial\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Music Still Substantial ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Where are the songs of protest or social change?<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nSome of us are old enough to remember when Rock and Roll was just starting and what it meant to you as adolescents and how it changed your lives. But I&#8217;m speaking of particular songs or pieces of music.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any musical pieces now that have been substantial enough to change peoples minds about life or tell the story of an event that made everyone sit up and take notice about something? For example <strong>1968<\/strong> Steven Stills wrote <strong>For What It&#8217;s Worth<\/strong> about the Sunset Strip Riots, <strong>1970<\/strong> Neil young wrote the story of the Massacre by the National Guard at Kent State  <strong>Ohio<\/strong>.  Even thinking back to <strong>1917<\/strong> the ballad <strong>Over There.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nToday I don&#8217;t hear any songs <em><strong>and I use the term loosely<\/strong><\/em> that tell about the days that we live in now. It seems to me that the hits of today are just over produced noise without saying anything important or the rappers just saying how much they have or how you are not as good as they think they are.<\/p>\n<p>Does music still mean anything or is it just background noise for people to watch the world go to Hell to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where are the songs of protest or social change? Some of us are old enough to remember when Rock and Roll was just starting and what it meant to you as adolescents and how it changed your lives. But I&#8217;m speaking of particular songs or pieces of music. Are there any musical pieces now that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}