"Music is Medicine." The ever growing
popularity of music therapy within the past few
years must be whole enough to justify. Music is
kind of an outlet to let emotions out. Be it
pure frustration or a sudden rush of excitement.
It is true music triggers the passion from the
depth of our feelings. In other words, it can be
said that music is an expression of moods. Music
is a medicine and music is moody! Maybe this is
why we have all sort of music from Tchaikovsky,
Beethoven to cradle of filth, Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Travis and what not. Each belonging to
a certain category, evoking a particular mood.
Now we can say that music is versatile. It is
just like rubber band transformed into any shape
and stretched to limits. The versatility is
indeed an advantage. However, people sometimes
tend to misuse their credibility and many such
advantages are misdirected. In this case as
well, the real purpose of music is faded over
commercialism. People 'make' music, not create
it and they 'sell' music, not play it. Music is
an industry these days - a factory with big,
dumb machines working monotonous rounds with no
life in it and that is what is labeled as music.
Moreover these kind of music industry get
million dollar campaigns. Talking about these
campaigns, it is even more embarrassing. All
that their advertisements can use is sex appeal,
pornography, violence, homicide and the gold,
diamond "bling-bling" with sleek machines. How
can this probably be something called real
music? The best that this kind of an act can be
called is a provocative, cheap entertainment and
no way real music can be compared to this piece
of garbage. Music is all about expression,
purity and passion and not vulgarity, phoniness
and business. Music is a part of spirituality
that cannot be over- materialized.
However there are many such great people who
are actually the advent grade of what we define
as real music. People like Narayan Gopal, Ry
Cooder, Sid Barret, Nushrat Fati Ali Khan, Jimi
Hendrix, Norah Jones and many more are the real
musicians, be it eastern or western. Therefore,
let music remain unpolluted and let music and
the musicians be truly respected. |