Jan 07 2009
working within the system
Working within the System Are bands like Anti-Flag and Rage Against the Machine helping to spread a message or are they just reinforcing and helping to make the System stronger? After all, did McLuhan not state that “the medium is the message”? And the mediums used in these cases can be considered, and are, vehicles of capitalism, thus making these bands, movies, etc vehicles of capitalism rendering their message null and void. It can be debated both ways. Bob Dylan sang what were considered “protest songs” in the early 60s though he himself did not consider them of which, on albums released by Columbia Records, which, as mentioned, was one of the biggest labels at the time and is now a subsidiary of Sony BMG, yet he is credited with sparking a movement.
