The Prescribed Happiness

I played guitar. Then I begged my friend Luzz to add some more instruments. Hear the orchestra of joy! Maybe my friend wanted to demonstrate with his addition, which I as a philosopher always use to call “the prescribed happiness” (Adorno). Music has sometimes this embarrassing task of manipulation. So military music or music in the churches sometimes starts in a philosopher’s state of mind even reflexes of pacifism or atheism.
https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/happybirthday

maybe you like to compare a choir (Virginia State University Gospel Chorale) performing “Walkin’ in Jerusalem just like John” and my old time minimalism on banjo with the same song:

https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/walk-in-jerusalem-parker-frits

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