BAN POP MUSIC NOW!

[koganbot]

Have been pointed to the Webpage for musoc.org, an activist site with avowed political intent that supports, among other things, the following ideas and policies:

--Art music is objectively superior to pop music.

--If you disagree you are a relativist.

--Anything that is not art music is pop music, so minimalism, 'total' serialism, musique concrète, etc. are pop music.

--Pop music should be BANNED from all public and work places that are not licensed entertainment venues.

--Pop music should be BANNED from children's television and other media.

(h/t Josh Kortbein)

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Also incidentally I'm not sure he understands the PRS music licensing policy re: 'entertainment venues' correctly. Workplaces DO have to be licensed to play pop music. And art music actually but y'know.

[koganbot]

You mean, like, you need to be licensed to have the radio on at work? Or is the license for having the radio pumped through the workplace's soundsystem? What about stores that play Muzak? Does that require a license? I'd never have expected that.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, hairdressers and shops and workplaces and things have to. Dunno how you'd catch a workplace if it was closed to the public or how big a workplace it'd have to be before you needed a license but yeah, everywhere that's conceivably benefitting financially from its use of music.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

This may well not be the same in the US, or indeed any other country -- licensing and copyright law changes wildly from state to state...

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Oh I know, I was just joking about the dude but it is a fair point.

Actually I think they do have it in the US tho. I do not know much about our copyright sistren and brethren across the sea except that we have to liase with them about Beyonce.