In a short essay entitled "Musica Practica,"" semiologist Roland Barthes wrote that "there are two musics (at least so I have always thought): the music one listens to, the music one plays."" ... believed that practical music was on the wane. "This type of music has disappeared...To find practical music in the West, one has now to look to another public, another repertoire, another instrument (the young generation, vocal music, the guitar)."" ... Apparently, any music that is not encountered in the concert halls of the West passes under the radar of the semiologist; inasmuch, non-Western...

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The term "punk" was derived in 16th century Europe as a way to address a prostitute or harlot. Centuries later, the word became commonly used prisons, used when a male prisoner was perceived to be the property of another male prisoner; forced to acquiesce to dehumanizing demands put upon him, includ...

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