Well, certainly not Superman. Similar looking planes and birds alike need also stray. Who's going to save music is you--is me, is your friend and spouse, is your neighbor, is the world. Saving the music is not about any single heroic savior. There's not centerfold, no man or woman powerful enough to save anything, let alone music, by him or herself. Music is inherently collaborative. One instrument is usually not a show, but an orchestra will play for millions. There may be a very successful solo artist or musician, but one thing that seems to escape us is the fact that we are roughly equal to music's "power." It is us who buy merchandise or endorse songs, who allow a single 4 minute video to gather millions upon millions of views, worldwide, who raise these tall walls ourself, so it is only natural that we possess the ability to tear them down.
What I am trying my best to say is that all of us are going to save the music. Since there's no single hero, it follows that a solution may not be as linear as the usual suspect. The solution rests within us. That power lies within our decision to introduce a new instrument to our children or listen to a new song for the first time, to cover a classic or to create something entirely new. We will decide with our action, how we use and progress music in the future, how we will integrate more complete music education and equipment within every school, not just the ones that "can afford it." There's no price on ability, on talent, on skill or savvy, and there shouldn't be a price to pay for the level of education we are all able to provide the next generation and the current, the young and the old, the educated and the need-to-be-educated.
In creating this, I've made some of my first steps in how I plan to save the music, and I hope I inspire a few people to take the same initiative I did in the near and far future. This will not be an overnight fix--of this I am fully aware. All in good time, however, it's only begun for me.
Raise the volume,
Will
Welcome all, My name is William Laughon, and I am a student at Richmond High. Music has been one of the largest influences on my life as a member of the youth--and impact I know that it will continue to have, should it survive. Hard times and massive budget cuts around the nation and even here in the bay area have endangered the impact of music. This is my blog to raise the volume on this issue. This is my blog to save the music.
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