The old school medieval uptight bitter control of melody, disharmoniously governing creative musical composition.
Tastes and trends congruously alighting lighthearted melodies and ditties and symphonies, the organic maintenance of scriptural censorship as authoritarian as it was unmoving.
Difficult to consider the imagination objectively locked down through emotional indifference, blues progressions and swingin' rhythms foolishly regarded with absolutist contempt.
No doubt many innovations discriminately fell by the calculating wayside, and many artists bravely struggled against the cold and stubborn regulations.
It seems unlikely that for millennia no one used classic blues progressions, or the faithful turnaround so often transformed from year to year, decade after decade.
Sweetly flowing enticing transitions eclectically aligned to encourage dance, banished from the soda fountain with routine blase remonstrance.
What would have happened over yonder if acoustic mesmerizing exhibition . . .
Had been designated "spiritually uplifting" . . .
Thereby transmutating wayward souls?
*You mean music used to be censured and potentially even forbidden?
**For a very long time indeed son, quite some time ago.
*Was dancing also prohibited, along with random flamboyant movements?
**It was like a critical austere embargo on anything thought to be facilitating pleasure.
*What did people do for fun?
**They tried to find censorship and denial fun in order to destroy dreams that filled them with ecstasy.
*Isn't that a bit odd?
**Yes, but that's often the way it works, even when open-minded people hold the reins.
*Is it possible to avoid them?
**Yes, people have been doing that for centuries.
*I imagine it's easier now than it was back then.
**Unfortunately, as freedoms increase, so do desires to control.
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