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Translator: Michele Gianella Reviewer: Silvia Allone
Music does matter,
probably much more than you think.
Music is one of the most powerful tools of emotional connection
that humanity has in their hands,
because it impacts on people's lives.
Think about it,
it has a significant impact on the psychophysical state, on the mood,
on our thoughs, on our perception of the world:
and therefore, indirectly, it impacts on what we do every day.
Let's say that it has to be handled with care, with responsibility.
Personally,
I see four very important dimensions of music,
that have a significant effect on people's lives.
The first dimension is the innermost level,
that within ourselves: memory.
Think for a moment: when you listen to a song,
a song that you heard maybe thirty years ago.
It’s able to bring you back to that moment
and make you feel those exact same feelings.
Only the sense of smell might have that kind of power.
Second point: the therapy, the cure.
Music is also apparently important in medical therapies.
It is scientifically proven
that it has a direct impact on dopamine, the pleasure hormone.
Just like sex or drugs.
Let me give you a piece of advice: replace drug with music.
Sex is up to you, no problem.
(Risate)
Seriously,
music can sooth people's pain, including physical pain.
It can help people dealing with stress, depression.
Its worth is really incredible, from a therapeutic point of view.
But it's also relevant as a learning tool,
because music teaches us how to listen, and we learn by listening.
Music has been shown to have a direct impact
on people's Intellectual Quotient,
on concentration ability
and the ability to act productively.
This is called “the Mozart effect”.
(Music)
A second dimension of music is the spiritual one:
the connection with the sacred, with the mystery, with the divine.
You have just heard a typically Christian melody
mixed with a sound, a timbre and a harmony
that come from the Arab culture.
It is the union of two religions in a single passage.
All the world's most widespread religion
have actually given great importance to music.
I will only dwell on Islam,
because Islam even classifies just two types of music:
the lawful one, "Halal",
and the lawless, forbidden one, "Haram".
The first one brings inner peace
and puts us in contact with Allah.
All other music belongs to the second category.
(Music)
Music has another great feature:
it brings people together.
Specific social groups with the same interests,
the same goals and often the same values.
And this has happened in many cases:
Revolutions in history always had a musical support.
Since the French Revolution,
popular music has been against the noble elites of those times.
100 years later, the Italian "Risorgimento" (Renaissance).
If you remember, when they cried out "Viva VERDI!" before La Scala Theatre,
they meant a political cry: “Viva Vittorio Emanuele Re d'Italia”.
Music was used as a tool to fight the Austrian oppressor.
And up to 2010, in the Arab Spring,
where rap was important to ignite the revolution in Tunisia.
Music was also important to define the hippy generation.
Music, at that time, was fundamental
to draw a line between generations.
Again, it was decisive for the rights of black African-Americans
in USA and around the world.
If we think about black music -
soul, blues, jazz, hip hop, rap, trap,
those are music genres that have been fundamental
to connect black Americans with their traditions and cultures,
towards a struggle for their rights.
(Music)
This is the aspect I like the most.
It is the strongest feature:
music as a tool to solve world's problems,
to help make the world a better place.
This has happened in different situations.
In classical music, I'd like to mention two interesting cases:
on your left you can find José Antonio Abreu,
a Venezuelan orchestra conductor who invented "El sistema",
that is a method of doing social integration
through music education.
He saved from the street 900,000 Venezuelan children,
and today this system is applied worldwide and also in Italy.
On your right,
you can find two other prominent conductor:
one Israeli, Barenboin; and the other one Palestinian, Said.
Those two men in 1999 formed the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra,
a unique orchestra composed
by musicians from Palestine, Arab countries, and Israel.
Music becomes a political tool
across countries that certainly aren't naturally friendly.
But the interesting thing, beyond classical music,
is the role of rock and pop music,
that obviously had greater relevance and impact
in terms of social improvement,
to face the world's problems
in environmental and exquisitely social issues.
Many artists have been involved
and have also become real activists,
such as Sting or Bono.
But there is an important year
in this musical genre, which is 1985,
when in July takes place
the biggest event ever in the history of pop music:
1.9 billion people connected,
95 percent of world's tv stations, 16 hours of live broadcast:
"Live Aid".
Well, I asked myself, as for what was happening -
I see many young people here,
who probably didn't live those years the way I did -
and so I wondered, in this new millennium,
has music the same powerful social impact,
the same sense of responsibility?
Is it still able to move people’s consciences?
Well, it's probably a little dormant, at least I see it that way.
It's a bit dormant
despite the fact that today's music potential,
with new technologies,
is unbelievable, it has exploded.
Think about the Internet. Think about streaming.
Think about the fact that today each of us can listen,
anytime, anywhere,
any kind of music from his smartphone.
Well, just for instance,
this artist, Taylor Swift, who is not even 30 years old,
has twice as many followers
as the current US President.
Her last song, in January,
was listened to by 40 million people within 24 hours after its release.
So, you can understand
how impacting a celebrity's role can be
on the topics we have been talking about.
And I must say, especially among young people.
Let me recommend something:
if you have children and grandchildren,
and you want to understand what they think,
what their fears, concerns,
and ambitions really are,
listen to their music, make an effort to understand what they are listening,
and you'll learn a lot about them.
For this reason,
last year we launched
a music ecosystem, "Music Innovation Hub"
in Milan,
that deals with music as common good,
music as a tool for education, social integration,
promotion in the world of the Italian music culture,
and also for technological innovation.
Well, I'm not sure if I convinced you:
if this wasn't the case,
give me the last chance to bring you back to a sad day.
In the days following the attack on the Twin Towers,
Clear Channel, the main American radio network,
issued an edict
with 160 tracks that could not be broadcast by their network.
Among these there were many
that were connected to the fire, or to the Towers, to the fall,
as they didn't want to hurt the sensibility of the American people.
But there was one
that had no meaning at all that was on that list.
A song about peace, perhaps the finest secular anthem to peace.
And it was censored.
It was censored because, probably,
it was inconsistent with the wishes of an administration,
and of a part of public opinion,
that wanted to start a war immediately after that moment.
Well, I ask you a favour, to all of you:
please, sing the last 15 seconds of the refrain of this song,
which all of you surely know.
Don't do this for me:
do it for all the times
this song has not been broadcasted.
And most of all, do it for all the times
the message of this song has not been respected.
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(Music)
Good. Thank you.
(Applause)

Translator: Michele Gianella Reviewer: Silvia Allone

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inconsistent::adjective | Spocien Dictionary

inconsistent

adjective

/,ɪnkən'sɪstənt/

not in agreement

Type	Words
Synonyms	discrepant

inconsistent::adjective | Spocien Dictionary

inconsistent

adjective

/,ɪnkən'sɪstənt/

displaying a lack of consistency

Type	Words
Derivation	inconsistency

inconsistent statements cannot both be true at the same time.

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inconsistent::adjective | Spocien Dictionary

inconsistent

adjective

/,ɪnkən'sɪstənt/

not capable of being made consistent or harmonious

Type	Words

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How to pronounce inconsistent in Italian?

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