Corruption In Art | Social Issues | Enliven

If anything that hits us by hearing the word corruption is politics and it's quite reasonable to have such thoughts. I mean we live in a country where a D-grade government employee needs more qualifications than the people who run the country.

Let's keep politics aside for it's not the topic I'm going to write about.

PART 1:

Back in the days, at the end of the 18 century and the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were drastic changes in the industry, as newly invented machines like Spinning Jenny, water frame, cotton gin, power loom, spinning mule came into existence in Europe and the United States, this change was called Industrial Revolution. These newly invented machines were more capable than men in terms of production and machines never feel sleepy nor overtired but men do. So these machines were increasing the production rate and Industrialists were earning an arm and a leg.

At the very same time, after the Battle of Plassey in 1757, India was the British Colony.

Britishers were establishing themselves strongly in India and started plundering it. Britishers signed treaties and military and trading alliances with many states by simply giving them an ultimatum or forcefully annexing the state control. That's how Britishers firmly determined to exploit India and its wealth. India was neither political nor economically strong enough to face the ruthless Britisher which gave the British's golden opportunity to establish their industries in India which was one of the chief factors behind the destruction of art and handicrafts in India as Britishers started selling their machine-made products at low cost. Indians had two options either lower the rate of their product to survive in the market or give up their profession and shift themselves to some other job. Lowering the price of the product was not an option because it would have hardly made any profit for the artists. So, they chose the latter one. Indian handicraftsmen and artists who used to sell the handmade products in the market failed miserably and suffered to make enough money for the bread and the butter.

PART 2:

It is said that music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret doors to the other dimensions where there are no worries or no sorrow and makes us fly into the unending sky full of stillness within. Music has the power to make a wretched heart melt. It can make rivers flow and winds blow. Music is present everywhere in the world from a tiny vibrating atom to the human body, it is in the air, it is in the ebb of the sea. Even the movement of the planets of our solar system makes a strange kind of music.

1950-1980 Bollywood music is considered to be the golden era of music. These days there were no such good recording instruments as artists have now, there were no machines to filter the voice. Whatever they used to sing and recorded then was their natural soothing voice without any artificial filter. Musical artists these days fool their audience by selling their machine filtered voices and making huge money. They make more effort in making their music video full of luxury and show off instead of providing some quality music.

I don't know if it's appropriate to say that the artists are befooling their audience.There's another perspective that the today's audience likes such kinds of artist and their music and they are comfortable with it.

With the change of time generation changes and with the change of generation their taste changes. In today's world, we have the internet which has extended our reach. The audience is not just limited to the Indian songs they are trying music from different countries and different languages like English, Korean, Spanish etc. If you like golden era music then you can say that today's audience is backward or they don't have good taste in music but in the end, it's their individual choice what they listen to.

 

CONCLUSION FROM PART 1 AND PART 2

So, the center point of the above article is that by the time we evolved the art got corrupted by technology. According to me, to some extent, science is responsible for the degradation of real art but it's not the science I blame, it's the people who preferred science over art.

No one acknowledged the work of the great Urdu poet Ghalib until he was dead. He died in misery. Now years later people are recognizing and praising his work.

Art is getting corrupted and the real artists are dying. Undeserving are getting fame and attention while the deserving ones are underdogs.

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