[Editors note: The Party's objection to Multiculturalism is firmly rooted in the reality that what is called multicultural, is in truth a bland mono-culture, nay anti-culture. We affirm our desire to develop and enhance our culture, drawing on the historical roots which formed it. The British nation has blended Roman, Celtic, Germanic, French, Greek and all manner of ancient cultures including ones which date back to the mists of time. To Focus on music: While we have no problem with Folk Music, we see great developments coming through Neo-Folk; While we have respect for Classical Music, there is a great and under-explored growth in Neo-Classical Music. Authentic Culture pays respect to its roots, but it does not stagnate, it thrives and grows. Multiculturalism of the coca cola sex-obsessed degenerate and artistically moribund variety is what we are against, but a genuine collection of coexisting and mutually-enhancing cultures, is something we applaud. But enough of this note, over to Peter!]
Globalist multiculturalism destroys authentic culture.
Correct.
But do we want to see an ‘authentic culture’ that is tantamount to little more than dancing round rural maypoles in traditional folk costumes - or one that merely replaces commercial pop culture with folk music? What about a massive program of re-educating our own and other European peoples - starting from childhood - in the great musical, poetic, architectural, poetic, dramatic and philosophical cultural traditions of Europe - not least Britain? Do we really want to see the total eradication of that great European culture - one that spans an era stretching from Heraclitus to Hegel, from Aeschylus and Aristotle to Goethe, Shakespeare to Schiller, Bach and Beethoven to Benjamin Britten??? Do we really need to depend on the Chinese to produce new generations of great classical and romantic pianists? Do we really just want to dress up as Druids, replace crucifixes with statues of Odin - and pretend this superficial New Age mimicry of pagan rites is authentic ‘Tradition’ - a word which, as the chief philosopher of 'Traditionalism' - Rene Guenon - pointed out, means an authentic initiatory and experiential passing on (tradere) of both craft skills and profound experiences of spiritual and philosophical truths.
I think there is also another serious question to be asked in this context. The question is, were we to be able to wave a magic wand and instantly remove every single trace of ‘multiculturalism’ from England, what exactly would we be left with in terms of ‘culture’ except for the monoculture of endlessly streamed TV ads and crap American TV series? [Editors note: We want to eradicate Hollywood US Imperialist anti-culture, so there would be NO US sitcoms etc!] The ‘authentic culture’ of English Beer and Scotch Whisky? Pub chains serving up crap, microwaved imitations of traditional English food? Football, rugby and cricket? (...not that there is anything wrong with any of them at all). Brass bands and Welsh singers (albeit the best of whom, like Bryn Terfel become great and world-renowned singers)? What would happen to our great but underfunded and ridiculously overpriced theatres, opera houses, concert halls and symphony orchestras? Under National Socialism, as in the Soviet Union, truly great musicians were trained and cultivated in the classical tradition - initiated would be a better word. Great music was brought to the people and not just an elite - with even the Berlin Philharmonic playing in factories. More importantly, in both NS Germany and the Soviet Union great works of classical ‘traditional’ music were still being composed. And even the Soviet Union recognised how deeply interwoven Russian culture and music was with European culture - including both French, Austrian German and English culture and music (as shown by the great friendship of Shostakich with Benjamin Britten). Finally, why was Wagner’s ‘The Mastersingers of Nuremburg’ performed after each and every Nuremberg rally? Because the whole theme of this particular music drama (Wagner hated bourgeois 'opera') is how cherished traditions of apprenticeship and spiritual initiation in great artistic traditions such as poetry and song are not frozen in time but can be patiently and wisely handed passed on (tradere) to a new generations who will learn from, respect and conserve them even if they introduce creative innovations.
In my personal view, the great UNITY of European traditions and culture is revealed nowhere better and more deeply than in great music - to talk of ‘classical’ music here is to consign it to the past, when it is precisely that music which more than any other endures. And it is in the realm of great music that the unique and absolutely distinct flavour and feeling of, say, Russian, Czech, English or French music has never been lost came but first into its own - not despite but because of the fact that it was inseparable from Germanic music - and would not have even existed without the native pre-national Germanic homeland of European culture - the land of culture as Goethe called it, and the nation of culture he would have wished for. And to me, music education should become basis of all education - starting in pre-school. In Poland during the Soviet era they produced wonderfully mesmerising animations of classical music which put Disney's Fantasia to shame, and which I am sure even very young children would be drawn into watching - and in this way receive their first exposure to classical music.
Here are some of many:
great Polish animations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB661A4vpEs&index=10&list=PLC94B9EE33E0BDC18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dITlv3qcN80&index=5&list=PLC94B9EE33E0BDC18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJnmQNpC_04&index=4&list=PLC94B9EE33E0BDC18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Ld65ZKaQ0&index=2&list=PLC94B9EE33E0BDC18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3hD-O0j9C8&list=PLC94B9EE33E0BDC18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U77nX1RzOw0&index=23&list=PLC94B9EE33E0BDC18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k93MbPRS8po&list=PLC94B9EE33E0BDC18&index=3
music with sand drawing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go7wlUOC5dg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me9eAb9SYOU
from the classical music animation film Fantasia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMnlxYkZKaU&index=5&list=PL3WK__yMF5c6fF5aQNDxY_wEKERIeEnGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjmI0D-uoLo&list=PL3WK__yMF5c6fF5aQNDxY_wEKERIeEnGY&index=6
abstract animations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--ykTqoQnqI&list=PL3B39D4DC6881CF28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idJHl9rB7Cc&list=PLCE93CB28C5827D74
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRgXUFnfKIY&index=2&list=RDljGMhDSSGFU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2y90hH4H7Q
1 comment:
Dark Ambient, Neo-Folk, a lot of experimental music. There is a lot of good music outside the control of the music industry. There is a healthy culture in music, but it is hidden by a media which refuses to recognise it. Same for Art. The media want you to believe that only decadent dross exists and that everything is produced to make money. They lie.
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