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Originally Posted by pbradley
Well, no, I think that is a misrepresentation of my opinion. I meant in my first reply on the subject to explain that I believe that it is a matter of ethical sentiment that connects music to politics. Political music that lacks an ethics also lack a pathos. As it were, my taste in music is centered around pathos, which might be why I am such a prick against objective criterias of quality. In what might be complete contrast to the slogan that "the personal is political," I believe that the political in relation to the individual is the making of the personal into the impersonal in order to influence other persons. I think the value of music on politics is its ability to articulate sentiment in a way sloganeering simply cannot match. Artistic endeavor that engages in the political (with the ethical sentiment as an assumed premise) is entirely possible but I think it fails both as an artistic endeavor and as a political endeavor.
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To be 100% honest, I don't quite understand the point that you are trying to make.
But I think that people are misunderstanding what "the personal is political" means.
The personal is political claims that systems of power, morality etc. are internalized and that subjects become self-regulating.To share one's experiences/ to talk back is inherently a political act.
Thus, to make music which addresses one's own experience is inherently a political act.