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Originally Posted by notyourfiend
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.
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Foucault, should have assumed. However, I think you are defining politics differently than I am. It reads as though, as you take it, political is simply the influence of one's experience upon another, whereas I have been considering the decision-making discourse of groups of people. Where I disagree is the idea that any influence upon another person is political, but rather, I think that it's only a particular kind of influence. I think there are other means of influence that speak beyond political and transcend internalized systems of morality, and music is one. I do not consider empathy, sympathy, antipathy or anything else of sentimental influence to be political as to be political formulates these sentiments into rational arguments to be engaged with political discourse. Music should be concerned with beauty, existence, suffering, etc. in themselves as well as within contemporary life but in a way that precedes discursive articulation and analytical argumentation. Those things should be left to the listener to decide upon.