The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: Using music as a weapon
[Second week of spring break. A brand new show next week! – AC]
Music is one of the greatest gifts the universe has bestowed upon humanity. It provides so much joy, comfort, inspiration, enjoyment, and motivation. It’s used in ritual and worship. And it allows us to communicate when words fail us. Every culture this planet has ever known has had music. An existence without it? Inconceivable.
But like everything in this life, even the best things can be perverted and corrupted for malevolent purposes. And that includes music.
It can be something as simple as your brother or sister annoying you by playing their awful music at high volume. Or music can be used as a weapon, a tool of war, a form of intimidation, and an instrument of torture, designed to inflict pain and distress.
To be fair, it can also be used as gentle, non-lethal manipulation or retaliation against some kind of incursion or attack. No bullets may be fire, but a point will be made.
This use of music is almost as old as music itself. And this history isn’t pretty. Welcome to the story of using music as a weapon.
Songs heard on this show:
- Drowning Pool, Bodies
- Hugh Marsh, Rules are Made to be Broken
- Clash, I Fought the Law
- Metallica, Enter Sandman
- Eminem, The Real Slim Shady
- Skinny Puppy, Dig It
- Massive Attack, Angel
Here’s your playlist from Eric Wilhite.
The Ongoing History of New Music can be heard on the following stations:
- 102.1 The Edge/Toronto – Sunday night at 7
- Q107/Toronto
- Live 88-5/Ottawa
- 107.5 Dave-FM/Kitchener
- FM96/London
- Power 97/Winnipeg
- Sonic 102.9/Edmonton
- The Zone/Victoria
- The Fox/Vancouver
- Surge 105/Halifax
- WAPS/WKTL The Summit/Arkon, Canton, Cleveland, Youngstown
We’re still looking for more affiliates in Calgary, Kamloops, Kelowna, Regina, Saskatoon, Brandon, Windsor, Montreal, Charlottetown, Moncton, Fredericton, and St John’s, and anywhere else with a transmitter. If you’re in any of those markets and you want the show, lemme know and I’ll see what I can do.
