- Politics
- Technology
- Censorship on music making and consumption in iran and iraq
- Examine music in middle east.
- Examine the effect on music making and creation
- Take technology to account
- Compare to situation in UK
- What is the function of music in both societies? (what role does music play in the society, how does it effect the society and what does it do to society).
- How has political leadership affected musicians, and how has it effected general music listeners in the middle east.
- How did things change after the revolution in the middle east
- What do you think might happen under the new leadership.
Intro:
The politics in Iran and Iraq compared to the politics here in the UK are very different. I will analyse how life is in Iran and Iraq is and the life in the UK. Both countries politics are very different, how?
UK:
In the UK the life is quite laid back, we have the freedom to make any career we want happen, and we have the government to allow us to study whatever we want with schools, colleges and universities. But we have to to take our GCSE'S, that is the only exception, the GCSE'S in the UK is very important and every child has to study in school for many years till they get to the age where they are ready to take it and when they have to take it. Usually teenagers take their GCSE'S when they get to the last year of secondary school 'Year 11', when they are the age of 15-16. The process is a child joins primary school at around the age of 5 or older and they get introduced to different subjects but the main subjects is maths,English and science, so they study these three subjects joined with other subjects, and as years go by the work gets harder and the knowledge gets more advanced. When a child finishes primary school at the age of around 10/11 they then have to move on to secondary school, just before they turn into a teenager, and then in secondary school they have to really study maths, English and science to a high level so by the time they get to year 11 then can take their GCSE'S and get the best grades they can. The GCSE'S are forced to be taken because the knowledge the children get as they grow up can help them with future jobs. After a teenager finishes secondary school they get to move on to college to study a course of their choice so they can start studying for their career in that course. But the GCSE'S will help them get into colleges. After college they have a choice to move on to universities, but universities are very hard to get into, depending on your grades and course you have to have the right grades and experience to be able to get into a good university. The reason how children/teenagers have the freedom to do this process is because the government helps with finance so they can go ahead and study. But most of the time people have to pay but the government helps the student with finance if they have trouble paying.
The politics in the UK give children and teenagers the freedom to study and to live a happy life, so with the freedom they get, and the studies they get, over the years they will come to grips what career they would like to achieve. For example I decided to take music as my course for college, I knew I wanted to do music because over the years from a child to a teenager, I always had the freedom to sing and perform musical theatre shows, so with that experience I knew I wanted to explore music and thanks to the government I had the freedom to go ahead with this career. I have the freedom to play music whenever I want, I get to experience performing at many different venues, Watching different styles of genres perform at gigs in public venues. I also get to practice at home, and attend lessons for my musical instruments. In the UK we get many professional and fast working technology that helps us with research. As long as you can afford the internet and you sign up for a contract, your internet is unlimited and it works really fast. Here in the UK we have lots of public shops where we can purchase musical instruments so we can buy for ourselves to practice at home, or to purchase for a school/university of music. Where you find schools for music you will find many technology for music. Going deeper in music and going into music production like producing, recording artist's, DJ-ing, you can find lots of shops or online purchases to purchase the technology you need in able to go ahead with music performance or music production/technology. The amount of help and technology we have here in the UK is countless. And to this day the technology develops, even as I write this. Religion in the UK is not a problem and we do not force people to believe in any religion. The government here is open to it and let people have the freedom to live with their religion and open up churches or synagouges or mosks for people to attend at and invite people to come in to them. Let people open shops for their religion where people can purchase religious items and clothes etc. There is countless religions and the government does not judge any of them and lets them live their life in piece. The security here is not over the top, they let people live in a calm atmosphere but if they see danger they approach it but they do not make a big deal where everyone has to panic, they approach the suspicion or crime in a professional and suitable manor. So that is how people in the UK can dress how they want and date who they want, go wherever they want at any time they want. But like the whole world should have is morals and limits. Because without morals and limits the world will be out of control. It is getting hard to get people to live calm and respectful lives, but school and educated and mature parents or youths can change that by teaching people as they grow up how to save the world from going out of control. And they can teach how to talk to people in a suitable manor, approach a place in a suitable manor and finally respect people for who they are and not judge people and let them be. Another thing I think is important to talk about, is how people in the UK can travel to other countries and even live there with suitable rights, in general it is not easy for someone to just automatically live wherever they want in the world, but with some money and rights they can move out of the UK freely without major problems. I think I have expressed enough how the life here in the UK is very straight forward and everyone can have a calm life in the way they want it but with limits.
Music wise all of us here in the UK have the freedom to practice with our bands at home or in a booked rehearsal space, We have easy access to technology to help us with the specific act we are practising for, and to help us with research or technology as in a laptop and internet for backing tracks and to play songs we can get inspired from etc. Here in the UK everyone can listen and play whatever music style they want. But if anything in a song is offensive to anyone or a big amount of people the government might consider to give a punishment or a warning. In the UK the social media is really big because everyone is connected to facebook and people use their iphone apps like instagram to post pictures. There is countless social media websites and apps people in the UK have easy access to. Even though everyone has a right to practise their music or musical act wherever they want, there is places where you have to consider rules of being noisey, rude and disrespectful to the venue or house hold. So you have to respect the rules being given and not be to loud, and most venues will close around a suitable time before midnight so people can go sleep, but if you have the right to stay at the venue then you have to respect people will be sleeping so they would have to practise in a suitable noise level. This applies to home rehearsals as well because at home if you are living with you parents you would have to respect their privacy and practise to a certain time and as it gets closer to the time you have to stop rehearsing, you would have to get quiter. There is some neighbours who will call the police if there is too much noise coming from the house over 22:00 or 23:00 pm at night. Music making in the UK is made in many sorts of ways, but the music that is made in the UK is either influenced on love, depression, sex, hate, strength and power and many more, but there is no label to what people have to write, they just make music about anything and whatever they want in whatever style they want.
Iran:
In Iran the life is different because the government is based on religion, and there was a revolution in the middle east, and life for people living there seemed to get harder after the revolution, all because of religion, the religion they believed in influenced how they felt about life, and what they needed to do in life. By this I am talking about social media, how people dress, where people go, difference between men and women became a problem, like women had be housewives while the men go and work hard, giving women not very much freedom, and judging them on what they do. Life in Iran is very restricted. When I found out about the social media in Iran I was overly shocked. In Iran what they watch on T.V, or what film they watch is very limited, you would not find people in Iran watching different genres of film like horror,comedy, Romantic films etc like you would see in the UK where they would watch loads of different genres of films. In Iran you would not find people having the choice to go cinema and have a choice of different genres of films to watch, in Iran they have to make films about specific things and need to go to the government in Iran to make sure it is okay to make and publish. The internet in Iran is very hard to get access to, if you would want to download music or anything else from the internet in Iran it would take hours or days, not like in the UK where it would take seconds, and maybe minuets, but in the UK downloading music or anything else would usually take seconds to download, depending on the internet you own. The point is internet in Iran is not something everyone has the freedom to turn to when they have free time, they need to be able to afford it, and even if you can afford the internet, the connection would be really hard to access it would not be fast, it would be worthless to use basically. This is because people in Iran have to even borrow internet from outside their area or country, this is because of the government, the internet does not interest them and they do not think it is useful, so they don't give easy access for people to buy it easily and use it easily like in the UK. The big suprise to me was how people in Iran are limited to make music, they can't make rock, jazz, pop, hip-hop music, they have to usually make music that is about religion and that suits the religion. They are really limited to what they have to play, and where they get to play. In Iran it is not like in the UK where they have the social media to influence people to make music in a specific genre, like is said the internet there is very limited. In Iran they do sell limited kind of instruments, but if anyone would hear you playing something usual to them and that is not in the style Iran allows, they would arrest you and either keep you in jail or to extremes kill you. People in the middle east are very violent and the war between Iran and Iraq influenced the violence. A story of a guy who lived in Iran and created a indie rock band, told us how he started as a bass player, but did not have the freedom to play bass whenever he wanted, he had to hide himself and find a safe place to practise his base, when the band was created they would find a place to rehearse but people lived underneath the rehearsal area, so they would have to get someone they trusted to keep a look out for them, so when the people downstairs would come back they would have to stop playing and pack everything just in case they would get caught and get arrested. They wanted to move out of the middle east to another country so they could start a music career, but unlike in the UK they could not escape easy, they needed to find someone who sold passports and visa's and leaving rights, but it cost a lot of money and was very hard to sort out, but once they were able to escape, the escape was very hard work and very scary because for people who are raised and are living in Iran it is not a choice to leave, they would need to be very rich and have the rights. Once the band left Iran they heard from a friend in Iran that if they came back they would be in big trouble, So he advised them to stay where they were and start a life there. A friend had to go back to Iran and he was arrested and was in A lot of trouble. As you can tell in Iran the life is very hard, and to make music and money or get any freedom is very very hard. The government are not as understanding as the government in the UK is. The government in Iran is very strict and are very stubborn. The religion is an influence with how they dress, how they talk and what career they have. Jobs in Iran is hard too, Iran is an overall poor country but there is the good areas but it is very rare.
The politics in Iran and Iraq compared to the politics here in the UK are very different. I will analyse how life is in Iran and Iraq is and the life in the UK. Both countries politics are very different, how?
UK:
In the UK the life is quite laid back, we have the freedom to make any career we want happen, and we have the government to allow us to study whatever we want with schools, colleges and universities. But we have to to take our GCSE'S, that is the only exception, the GCSE'S in the UK is very important and every child has to study in school for many years till they get to the age where they are ready to take it and when they have to take it. Usually teenagers take their GCSE'S when they get to the last year of secondary school 'Year 11', when they are the age of 15-16. The process is a child joins primary school at around the age of 5 or older and they get introduced to different subjects but the main subjects is maths,English and science, so they study these three subjects joined with other subjects, and as years go by the work gets harder and the knowledge gets more advanced. When a child finishes primary school at the age of around 10/11 they then have to move on to secondary school, just before they turn into a teenager, and then in secondary school they have to really study maths, English and science to a high level so by the time they get to year 11 then can take their GCSE'S and get the best grades they can. The GCSE'S are forced to be taken because the knowledge the children get as they grow up can help them with future jobs. After a teenager finishes secondary school they get to move on to college to study a course of their choice so they can start studying for their career in that course. But the GCSE'S will help them get into colleges. After college they have a choice to move on to universities, but universities are very hard to get into, depending on your grades and course you have to have the right grades and experience to be able to get into a good university. The reason how children/teenagers have the freedom to do this process is because the government helps with finance so they can go ahead and study. But most of the time people have to pay but the government helps the student with finance if they have trouble paying.
The politics in the UK give children and teenagers the freedom to study and to live a happy life, so with the freedom they get, and the studies they get, over the years they will come to grips what career they would like to achieve. For example I decided to take music as my course for college, I knew I wanted to do music because over the years from a child to a teenager, I always had the freedom to sing and perform musical theatre shows, so with that experience I knew I wanted to explore music and thanks to the government I had the freedom to go ahead with this career. I have the freedom to play music whenever I want, I get to experience performing at many different venues, Watching different styles of genres perform at gigs in public venues. I also get to practice at home, and attend lessons for my musical instruments. In the UK we get many professional and fast working technology that helps us with research. As long as you can afford the internet and you sign up for a contract, your internet is unlimited and it works really fast. Here in the UK we have lots of public shops where we can purchase musical instruments so we can buy for ourselves to practice at home, or to purchase for a school/university of music. Where you find schools for music you will find many technology for music. Going deeper in music and going into music production like producing, recording artist's, DJ-ing, you can find lots of shops or online purchases to purchase the technology you need in able to go ahead with music performance or music production/technology. The amount of help and technology we have here in the UK is countless. And to this day the technology develops, even as I write this. Religion in the UK is not a problem and we do not force people to believe in any religion. The government here is open to it and let people have the freedom to live with their religion and open up churches or synagouges or mosks for people to attend at and invite people to come in to them. Let people open shops for their religion where people can purchase religious items and clothes etc. There is countless religions and the government does not judge any of them and lets them live their life in piece. The security here is not over the top, they let people live in a calm atmosphere but if they see danger they approach it but they do not make a big deal where everyone has to panic, they approach the suspicion or crime in a professional and suitable manor. So that is how people in the UK can dress how they want and date who they want, go wherever they want at any time they want. But like the whole world should have is morals and limits. Because without morals and limits the world will be out of control. It is getting hard to get people to live calm and respectful lives, but school and educated and mature parents or youths can change that by teaching people as they grow up how to save the world from going out of control. And they can teach how to talk to people in a suitable manor, approach a place in a suitable manor and finally respect people for who they are and not judge people and let them be. Another thing I think is important to talk about, is how people in the UK can travel to other countries and even live there with suitable rights, in general it is not easy for someone to just automatically live wherever they want in the world, but with some money and rights they can move out of the UK freely without major problems. I think I have expressed enough how the life here in the UK is very straight forward and everyone can have a calm life in the way they want it but with limits.
Music wise all of us here in the UK have the freedom to practice with our bands at home or in a booked rehearsal space, We have easy access to technology to help us with the specific act we are practising for, and to help us with research or technology as in a laptop and internet for backing tracks and to play songs we can get inspired from etc. Here in the UK everyone can listen and play whatever music style they want. But if anything in a song is offensive to anyone or a big amount of people the government might consider to give a punishment or a warning. In the UK the social media is really big because everyone is connected to facebook and people use their iphone apps like instagram to post pictures. There is countless social media websites and apps people in the UK have easy access to. Even though everyone has a right to practise their music or musical act wherever they want, there is places where you have to consider rules of being noisey, rude and disrespectful to the venue or house hold. So you have to respect the rules being given and not be to loud, and most venues will close around a suitable time before midnight so people can go sleep, but if you have the right to stay at the venue then you have to respect people will be sleeping so they would have to practise in a suitable noise level. This applies to home rehearsals as well because at home if you are living with you parents you would have to respect their privacy and practise to a certain time and as it gets closer to the time you have to stop rehearsing, you would have to get quiter. There is some neighbours who will call the police if there is too much noise coming from the house over 22:00 or 23:00 pm at night. Music making in the UK is made in many sorts of ways, but the music that is made in the UK is either influenced on love, depression, sex, hate, strength and power and many more, but there is no label to what people have to write, they just make music about anything and whatever they want in whatever style they want.
Iran:
In Iran the life is different because the government is based on religion, and there was a revolution in the middle east, and life for people living there seemed to get harder after the revolution, all because of religion, the religion they believed in influenced how they felt about life, and what they needed to do in life. By this I am talking about social media, how people dress, where people go, difference between men and women became a problem, like women had be housewives while the men go and work hard, giving women not very much freedom, and judging them on what they do. Life in Iran is very restricted. When I found out about the social media in Iran I was overly shocked. In Iran what they watch on T.V, or what film they watch is very limited, you would not find people in Iran watching different genres of film like horror,comedy, Romantic films etc like you would see in the UK where they would watch loads of different genres of films. In Iran you would not find people having the choice to go cinema and have a choice of different genres of films to watch, in Iran they have to make films about specific things and need to go to the government in Iran to make sure it is okay to make and publish. The internet in Iran is very hard to get access to, if you would want to download music or anything else from the internet in Iran it would take hours or days, not like in the UK where it would take seconds, and maybe minuets, but in the UK downloading music or anything else would usually take seconds to download, depending on the internet you own. The point is internet in Iran is not something everyone has the freedom to turn to when they have free time, they need to be able to afford it, and even if you can afford the internet, the connection would be really hard to access it would not be fast, it would be worthless to use basically. This is because people in Iran have to even borrow internet from outside their area or country, this is because of the government, the internet does not interest them and they do not think it is useful, so they don't give easy access for people to buy it easily and use it easily like in the UK. The big suprise to me was how people in Iran are limited to make music, they can't make rock, jazz, pop, hip-hop music, they have to usually make music that is about religion and that suits the religion. They are really limited to what they have to play, and where they get to play. In Iran it is not like in the UK where they have the social media to influence people to make music in a specific genre, like is said the internet there is very limited. In Iran they do sell limited kind of instruments, but if anyone would hear you playing something usual to them and that is not in the style Iran allows, they would arrest you and either keep you in jail or to extremes kill you. People in the middle east are very violent and the war between Iran and Iraq influenced the violence. A story of a guy who lived in Iran and created a indie rock band, told us how he started as a bass player, but did not have the freedom to play bass whenever he wanted, he had to hide himself and find a safe place to practise his base, when the band was created they would find a place to rehearse but people lived underneath the rehearsal area, so they would have to get someone they trusted to keep a look out for them, so when the people downstairs would come back they would have to stop playing and pack everything just in case they would get caught and get arrested. They wanted to move out of the middle east to another country so they could start a music career, but unlike in the UK they could not escape easy, they needed to find someone who sold passports and visa's and leaving rights, but it cost a lot of money and was very hard to sort out, but once they were able to escape, the escape was very hard work and very scary because for people who are raised and are living in Iran it is not a choice to leave, they would need to be very rich and have the rights. Once the band left Iran they heard from a friend in Iran that if they came back they would be in big trouble, So he advised them to stay where they were and start a life there. A friend had to go back to Iran and he was arrested and was in A lot of trouble. As you can tell in Iran the life is very hard, and to make music and money or get any freedom is very very hard. The government are not as understanding as the government in the UK is. The government in Iran is very strict and are very stubborn. The religion is an influence with how they dress, how they talk and what career they have. Jobs in Iran is hard too, Iran is an overall poor country but there is the good areas but it is very rare.
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