{"id":2060,"date":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2013\/01\/12\/set-guitars-to-kill-a-musical-examination-of-post-rock\/"},"modified":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"set-guitars-to-kill-a-musical-examination-of-post-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2013\/01\/12\/set-guitars-to-kill-a-musical-examination-of-post-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Set Guitars to Kill: a Musical Examination of Post-Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of my project was to examine Post-Rock music and to answer the question &#8216;is post-rock a philosophically sound musical genre?   <\/p>\n<p>To answer this question I looked at the Aesthetic Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer using his work The World as Will and Idea primarily. I applied his thought to the music by a number of the bands from the Genre such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, 65daysofstatic, Explosions in the Sky, And So I Watch You From Afar, Thee Silver Mt. Zion and Slint among others.  <\/p>\n<p>I also looked at the social and cultural philosophy of Theodor Adorno found in his works Dialectic of Enlightenment and The Culture Industry. I applied this philosophy to the general attitude of the genre, a genre that tends to be antilabel, anti- capitalist and anti-corporate. I used a number of interviews with bands and also with the founders of Record labels who sign a number of post-rock bands such as Constellation Records.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Cause this music can put a human being in a trance like state and deprive it for the sneaking feeling of existing. &#8216;Cause music is bigger than words and wider than pictures. If someone said that Mogwai are the stars I would not object. If the stars had a sound it would sound like this. &#8211; Mogwai  &#8211; Yes I am a Long Way From Home (Opening Monologue)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Anderson, 2013, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[609,22,123],"tags":[72,64,97],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-609","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-adorno","tag-capitalism","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}