In my opinion, democracy and freedom of music means that every musician has right to offer her/his music and every audience has right to listen to her/his own favorite songs and nobody has right to ban any musician or audience from their rights mentioned in above.

 

Nobody has right to say that this genre of music is forbidden or the like.

 

It is obvious that a teacher will emphasize on the style and techniques of their own training, but this should not cause some teachers to say her/his students that their style or school is the best and such-an-such styles or schools are not good and the like. A teacher who says to her/his students such things, not only may be doing a major disservice because she/he causes the students to lose some other styles and techniques, but also is doing something against the democracy and freedom of music, because in this way the teacher tries to ban the other musicians and take the freedom of her/his students. It is obvious that those behaviors of the musicians increase the tension among musicians and their students, discussing which style or school is the best and so on.

 

Ethnomusicologists and musicologists started researching about different genres of music and tried to document and offer them to people. This has had a good affect on the social status of musicians, particularly the musicians of poor countries. At least their music became more available.

 

I strongly believe that Internet is one of the most useful tools for offering music. This is right that today, most of the people on the Earth, particularly the people of poor countries do not use Internet or their Internet connection is not so fast (Dial-up Networking), but very soon, everybody will use Internet with better connections and in a near future, all the people of the Earth will get in touch with each other and exchange their ideas about the subjects of their interests.

Internet is helping to the democracy and freedom of music at whole. In the past you would not be able to offer your music to music lovers, except your music were offered and advertised by big companies or Medias, but today you may offer your music on the web free of charge or at least much cheaper than before. For example, the MP3 has helped many musicians to offer their music on the web. At least MP3 offers their music internationally and makes them a little more famous. You may not become that famous, but at least you are more available than before!

 

Music lovers were not able to find some info about different genres of music easily, but today they may find their favorite songs easier and cheaper than before. In the past you had to listen to that genre of music that big companies or Medias were offering you, but today you have more freedom in choosing your own music by surfing in Internet.

 

I believe Internet is empowering musicians, audiences, democracy and freedom of music. Now it is the time for all musicians to offer their music on the web and at last people will decide what they should listen and what they should not!

 

Date of Publication: July 08, 2003