How does a city become known as a "music city"? Publicist Elizabeth Cawein explains how thriving music scenes make cities healthier and happier and shares ideas for bolstering your local music scene — and showing off your city's talent to the world.
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Powerful music
Lil pump: *Existes*
Very early
All is one
Thanks Ted..
I know how… ban rap music.
You’re welcome.
Oppress your inner city kids if you want authentic Rap music. Bring back slavery if you want original Blues music. (which explains why Blues is never as good as before.)
U stoopid
+Mr G-Dash sorry. Married to a black woman. Try again moron.
+Matt Paruszkiewicz high? I know how to spell atupid… so who’s atupid??? Roflmao
Rap music is apart of a culture. It sucks to see Rap gets frowned upon when most do not know it’s an art form.
Oh…bunch of npc
Agusta Sister who
Sadly I don’t own a city.
If you get with her you can say you’re dating a city. Close enough.
+Robo Cop oh..atno is female?
LOL @ the name ROBOCOP haahhHHHhhbAhBahahshajvmckdkKendnsm
+Robo Cop youre team must be Babylon.
The team with no LY …LY = Christ.
See how I can do that hmm mmmmmmm.
Interesting and unique music scenes come from the frustration of living in boring cities with no opportunities though. It forces people who want something different to come together, share new ideas and create new scenes for themselves, which in turn establishes the strength of that scene, whether it be grunge, grime, punk, jazz or whatever. This just sounds like a way to create the next product that a city can say it owns, use it to make money and drive up rents, shut down independent venues and bring in a load of hipster clones to suck the life out of whatever was there. You can’t prescribe creativity or culture, it has to happen organically.
@Eva J Kennedy – wow, being cynical. She’s trying to help.
+Michelle Spiritual yeah, but what she’s saying is create music cities from the top down. That’s only going to create chain venues that won’t want to try something too leftfield because they’re motivation would come down to money. The same goes for recording studios and building apartments for professional musicians or whatever. It’s all too clinical and cuts out the people at the bottom, who 99% of the time drive the change.
Eta: Also, the stand out cities she mentions at the start contradict her point, as she mentions they weren’t doing anything to make those things happen, they just did. I know I sound ranty, but this seemed pretty pointless. All power to her though
well, england is my city…
Great. Each one of us who watch this will be able to convince of our city’s to watch this
TED, you should SERIOUSLY put up a warning when you’re posting a TEDx keynote vs an actual TED presentation. Most of your subscribers can already tell a difference in quality between actual TED presentations and independent TEDx.
Most of this presentation is “GUESS WHAT, MUSIC IS IMPORTANT”.
Music scene is bottom up, not top down. The more you manage it, the less authentic it becomes. Ban music all together in your city, if you want vibrant underground music.
LOL I thought the background said TED Men.
Unfortunately there are too many local councils in the UK who would rather have ghost towns because the police are too lazy to do their jobs often advising licensing boards to deny businesses permission to expand thus leading to said ghost towns instead of vibrant social communities.
Virtue Signal alot.
This woman is delusional. The subject of her talk is nonsensical. The examples she mentions are out of place and wrong. Music is just one of many pieces of life. If you focus on only one, you’ll miss out all the rest. I just quoted myself because I didn’t listen to only music. I lived.
Sounds like the Europeans are way ahead of us again. Well, Joseph Campbell pointed out that in Europe, the streets are named after great poets, writers, musicians philosophers etc. While in America, the streets are named after businessmen. You can do the math Let’s follow the advice in this video, and maybe America can regain its soul!
I really detest people who, instead of just enjoying music, feel the need to analyse, disect, intellectualise and totally miss the whole point ( as did this lady) about it. People who talk about music like this always remind me of the saying, if you talk about Woodstock, you were never there! If she feels so passionately about music, why isn’t she out there making it instead of babbling about it?
Good art comes from struggle. This is why The new generation of privileged trust-fund hipsters will never create significant art. That and the fact that they are compliant with the new Orwellian surveillance state. Where is the freedom to create in that? They only copy the previous and now dead genius what was once the middle class or lower classes. As the middle is being collapsed into the lower, there is not much money to buy instruments or time to work on ones craft. But only to be a slave to the “gig economy” etc. Meanwhile the privileged can rip their jeans precisely across their knees in some sad attempt to echo the revolutions of punk rock in the late 1970s. Real question is what to do about this lost soulless nihilist culture. That values nothing but their selfie.