November 2019 300bpm Planning
Oct. 7th, 2019 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
300bpmThe next round of 300bpm will be held some weekend this upcoming November. Give your input on exactly when here.
In addition, one change to the structure I'm considering is giving each round of the collection a loose theme for the music suggested. So, for instance, my favorite idea for the November edition is "The Opposite of Holiday Music" -- to be interpreted as you wish. I'd also be open to "Holiday Music" if people want that.
It could also perhaps be a genre-- hip-hop, punk, classical. I think it'd be fun, but I'd love to hear y'all's input.
If you have thoughts on that, or any other changes to the structure, feel free to comment on this post.
Edited to add clarification:
One thing is that this will be an optional theme! You wouldn't have to justify to anyone if your prompts met it--it's more to have another way to encourage creativity and doing new things, if people want to do that. An alternative would be a bingo card that people could ask for.
And as a note, the thing that appeals to me about "The Opposite of Holiday Music" is precisely that it is absurd and indeterminate and kinda meaningless.
You could go so many weird directions with it. Is it "Fuck Christmas" music that's still basically Christmas music, like Fairytale of New York? Is it Islamic vocal music, because "Holiday" is a not-so-subtle appeal to Christian values that leaves a lot of people out and you want to make a point by drawing attention to the excluded? Is it the Avinu Malkeinu, making a point that the "holidays" meant here are not actually the High Holy Days? Is it even, within Christianity, an Easter hymn because it isn't even actually the most important Christian holiday? Is it screaming metal music, because the tone so different? Is it music about quotidian daily life, because a normal day is the opposite of a holiday? Is it aggressively secular music, because holiday evokes "holy day"? And so on.
I'm getting the feedback that people don't like the absurdity/specificity, though, so I hear you! Thank you so much for taking the time to give me your thoughts as I muse over this question.
In addition, one change to the structure I'm considering is giving each round of the collection a loose theme for the music suggested. So, for instance, my favorite idea for the November edition is "The Opposite of Holiday Music" -- to be interpreted as you wish. I'd also be open to "Holiday Music" if people want that.
It could also perhaps be a genre-- hip-hop, punk, classical. I think it'd be fun, but I'd love to hear y'all's input.
If you have thoughts on that, or any other changes to the structure, feel free to comment on this post.
Edited to add clarification:
One thing is that this will be an optional theme! You wouldn't have to justify to anyone if your prompts met it--it's more to have another way to encourage creativity and doing new things, if people want to do that. An alternative would be a bingo card that people could ask for.
And as a note, the thing that appeals to me about "The Opposite of Holiday Music" is precisely that it is absurd and indeterminate and kinda meaningless.
You could go so many weird directions with it. Is it "Fuck Christmas" music that's still basically Christmas music, like Fairytale of New York? Is it Islamic vocal music, because "Holiday" is a not-so-subtle appeal to Christian values that leaves a lot of people out and you want to make a point by drawing attention to the excluded? Is it the Avinu Malkeinu, making a point that the "holidays" meant here are not actually the High Holy Days? Is it even, within Christianity, an Easter hymn because it isn't even actually the most important Christian holiday? Is it screaming metal music, because the tone so different? Is it music about quotidian daily life, because a normal day is the opposite of a holiday? Is it aggressively secular music, because holiday evokes "holy day"? And so on.
I'm getting the feedback that people don't like the absurdity/specificity, though, so I hear you! Thank you so much for taking the time to give me your thoughts as I muse over this question.
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Date: 2019-10-07 08:03 pm (UTC)Which is to say, one of the two most important Christian holy days, plus those trappings of a pre-Christian Germanic festival that Christianity liked enough to attach to the aforementioned important Christian holy day. Plus a minor Jewish holiday that has better name recognition than the actual High Holy Days: largely because Hanukkah is a gift-giving holiday in close proximity to the gift-giving holiday that is the aforementioned important Christian holy day, and almost always an afterthought next to Christmas.
I would honestly be a lot more happy with a "Christmas music" theme than a "holiday music" theme, because that's almost exactly as exclusionary and a lot more honest.
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I have no idea what "the opposite of holiday music" is supposed to be. I mean, "Christmas Can-Can" by Straight No Chaser, maybe, because its lyrics, but that's…literally on their Christmas album. And I cannot think of a single other thing that might fit.
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I'm not sure going by genre is practical? I only ever know what genre a given song is because of which station I hear it on, and even then there's a bunch of crossover. And for every song that fits in two genres, there are people passionately arguing that it's only one or the other.
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Date: 2019-10-07 10:59 pm (UTC)Which I think might be made more clear by saying more why I thought the idea of the "opposite of holiday music" might be an interesting theme. iI would not at all be a binding theme, like you wouldn't have to justify to me that you have successfully met the theme with your request. I guess in that sense it is optional, or just like a place to start.
Which is why I was kinda attracted to something almost absurdist, like the Opposite of Holiday Music, because you could go so many weird directions with it. Is it "Fuck Christmas" music that's still basically Christmas music, like Fairytale of New York? Is it Islamic vocal music, because "Holiday" is a not-so-subtle appeal to Christian values that leaves a lot of people out and you want to make a point by drawing attention to the excluded? Is it the Avinu Malkeinu, making a point that the "holidays" meant here are not actually the High Holy Days? Is it even, within Christianity, an Easter hymn because it isn't even actually the most important Christian holiday? Is it screaming metal music, because the tone so different? Is it music about quotidian daily life, because a normal day is the opposite of a holiday? Is it aggressively secular music, because holiday evokes "holy day"? And so on.
It's that level of weirdness that I wanted to be able to allow for going for something slightly more generic than the opposite of Christmas music, because it seems like there are more interesting directions you could go, just because of the pseudo-genericness. But I hear you how it can sound like evading the Christian-centric glorification of the equation of December with "the holidays," so I'd be happy to do something like the opposite o Christmas music, if people liked the general idea.
Which, it doesn't seem to be working! Which is fine. I like the absurdism and the potential for weird directions, but if other people aren't inspired by it, it doesn't make sense.
A thing that has more flexibility than that which wouldn't have the limitations of a genre might be something like "Music for Long Nights" or, to make sure things are still timely for Southern Hemisphere compatriates, just "November Music" and they could have stuff about the beginning of summer.
I'm compelled by the problem with genre. And it's kinda boring.
One way to deal with this with flexibility would be to make optional bingo cards that they could fulfill with their prompts, just if they wanted to stretch themselves. With some spaces genre, some theme, some feature of the music (instrumental only! etc.)
ETA: If you frequent it, you may recognize some of this from FFA, just as a heads up that I c/ped part of the comment.
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Date: 2019-10-09 04:33 am (UTC)