ScuroFantasma: Bands/Music about Capitalism, Modernism and Race?

ScuroFantasma 10.17.16	My heart for Grande disappeared in the list
Polyethylene 10.17.16	Elvis taking early rock music styles made by black people, and sanitising them into a product more palatable to a white audience seems to encompass all three of those things. Just check out how much more raw the original 'Hound Dog' and 'It's Alright Mama' songs were
brobama420 10.17.16	Definitely Pink Floyd - Animals
YakNips 10.17.16	https://slipmatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/porcupine-demo kendrick lamar g.l.o.s.s. for capitalism i have no idea
ScuroFantasma 10.17.16	Thanks guys, I'll definitley follow up on those. Agreed hard Poly on the whites covering black songs, that does cover all criteria basically.
po0ty 10.17.16	Capitalism, Modernism and Race is an insanely wide area of discussion..
po0ty 10.17.16	I think The Beatles would be an obvious band to cover however
climactic 10.17.16	leftover crack
G0atC0re 10.17.16	So what's your angle on this? Capitalism, Modernism and Race is an extremely broad and complex set of ideas.
ScuroFantasma 10.17.16	Well I'm actually only selecting two of those three, and that's narrowed down from a lot of other possibilities, but basiclaly I'm discussing how Western music in the twentieth century reflects the ideas of Capitalism, Modernism and/or Race. I'm not entirely decided on which two of those three I'm going to do yet, probably the first two. And it's a 2000 word essay so plenty of room to get deep, but it is a little narrower than I made it first seem since I just wanted a few suggestions of music I might not be familiar with that deals with/is affected by these topics. Automatically punk, early rock and roll, and Blues came to mind, pop music as an industry for capitalism too.
TheSpaceMan 10.17.16	wouldnt it be easier to address the music industry itself and how its built to conform to a capitalist model?
TheSpaceMan 10.17.16	"leftover crack" if this is a band name its amazing because there is never such a thing
ScuroFantasma 10.17.16	It would be, and I plan on touching on that particualrly for the capitalism part, but it is more about art reflecting society
TheSpaceMan 10.17.16	oh shit my b I just saw the title thru the home page didnt see the other two topics
TheSpaceMan 10.17.16	but yeah talk about streaming services and how they're viewed as a service rather than product, how radio doesn't allocate royalties to artists and doesnt need permission, and how downloads and physical media is treated like a product with the label being a client distributor for the artist, all to fit in our westernized economy by giving monetary value to music (:
ScuroFantasma 10.17.16	All really good points, thanks man. I hadn't even considered streaming services tbh.
TheSpaceMan 10.17.16	its a huge topic in the music industry if you really think about it. its not really selling a product but rather a service, so how much royalty does an artist deserve when a lot of it comes from the work put in by the service to maintain the program on top of the fact that the consumers arent actually receiving the songs/albums for their own use. its hard to find an even consensus on that one for obvious reasons and I think it boils down to free market agreement between the artist/label and the streaming service... something very much capitalist in nature. just tryna help get some thoughts flowin on the topic
ScuroFantasma 10.17.16	Appreciate it man! I actually wrote an assignment on the topic of music piracy last year which also meant I needed to look into alternatives that pay the artist and everything I read indicated that streaming services have a pretty abysmal return for musicians. What was interesting for me was that iTunes of all things only took about 30%, record labels took 60% and then the artists got 10% of that. But you don't need a label to out your stuff on iTunes interstingly enough.
DoofusWainwright 10.17.16	The first thing that came to mind was that Papa Roach song 'Between Angels and Insects' D: That's what happens when a nu metal band watches Fight Club twice in a week I guess
ScuroFantasma 10.17.16	Haha
Egarran 10.17.16	First thing that came to my mind was Brutal Truth. "Smell the power, smell the health Smell the poverty of Americas wealth Money smells of evil, greed Capitalist wants and pumped up needs"
ScuroFantasma 10.17.16	Awesome, by the name alone that sounds promising
zakalwe 10.17.16	The Clash
Keyblade 10.17.16	paris
ArizonaIcedOutBoys 10.17.16	early swans
Sinternet 10.17.16	eww capitalism
GhostOfSarcasticBtrd 10.17.16	Not that this helps for your assignment but Frank Turner is the only guy I can think of off the top of my head who writes music in favor of capitalism.
ScuroFantasma 10.17.16	It could potentially, it's not an assignment on how bad capitalism is, just about music's reflection of it so that might be a good inclusion seeing as how those points of view are probably a bit scarcely represented. I'll look into it.
Sinternet 10.17.16	get some billy bragg in ya
Cygnatti 10.17.16	shape of punk to come
zaruyache 10.17.16	NOFX for sure.
Sinternet 10.17.16	most punk really
GhostOfSarcasticBtrd 10.17.16	His stuff with Mongol Horde basically comes down to "lol communism"
Sinternet 10.17.16	propagandhi are pretty good for that too
GhostOfSarcasticBtrd 10.17.16	Might be worth looking into career changes, too, as Reznor starting out vs. Reznor today is a total 180 on the merits of capitalism and attitude towards power structures.
GhostOfSarcasticBtrd 10.17.16	d e l e t e d
laughingman22 10.17.16	throbbing gristle-20 jazz funk greats because it's like a big ol parody of capitalism and the bands moto was 'industrial music for industrial people'
BallsDeep 10.17.16	Immortal technique immediately comes to mind (anti-capitalist) also this is the 21st century brah
Rolling Girl 10.17.16	Anti-Flag and Strike Anywhere have response to capitalism. They probably cover the other topics but I can't think of specifics off the top of my head.
DisdainfulChemist 10.17.16	KISS
Nazzadan 10.17.16	The KISS solo albums are a great study in capitalism
eliminatorjunior 10.17.16	Thanks for the shout YakNips
ScuroFantasma 10.17.16	Thanks a bunch everyone! "also this is the 21st century brah" Yes
Davil667 10.17.16	Rage Against The Machine probably cover all topics mentioned by you.
Masochist 10.17.16	I immediately thought of Bad Religion, who speak on topics of Religion, politics, and the economy all the time. One of their most popular songs is called "American Jesus," and the titular religious metaphor is the desire for money. They have quite a few more that deal with consumerism, including what is probably their biggest hit, "21st Century Digital Boy." There's also (and I really, really can't believe I'm about to suggest this on Sputnik) a Newsboys song called "Fad of the Land" that talks about people's desire to own the latest electronic gadgets, and is one of the least overtly religious songs from them so it's a bit more accessible than most of their material.
TheSupernatural 10.18.16	I wrote a paper 4 years ago about music as a political movement through the 20th century. Focused on Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Dead Kennedys, and Rage Against the Machine.
ScuroFantasma 10.18.16	Thanks guys :). @Supernatural that's interesting, definitely considering mentioning those last three artsists to some degree.
Egarran 10.18.16	"Rage Against The Machine" Damn, how could we forget. The Christmas Number One campaign was pretty amusing.
DarkSideOfLucca 10.18.16	1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love you for 1. Marry me
Egarran 10.18.16	Marriage is a capitalist orgy!
DominionMM1 10.18.16	rage, nwa, and public enemy all come to mind immediately