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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (Official Audio)

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The reason for this picture is ratliff uses tupac as an example to support his argument

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“if you care too much about maintaining your authority, the outer voice translates your authority as weakness. When they are in balance, you can create a kind of playful distance from your own material,”

Ben Ratliff. “Every Song Ever.”

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“It involves self-confidence so great that it borders on cynicism, and publicly limiting your romantic aesthetic ambitions.”

Ben Ratliff. “Every Song Ever.”

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Find at least one musical example outside of Ratliff’s playlist and justify its inclusion – how does it exemplify this musical concept?

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Find at least one musical example outside of Ratliff’s playlist and justify its inclusion – how does it exemplify this musical concept?

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one musical example i chose outside of ratliffs playlist was detroit rock city - Kiss. The reason I chose this song is that everytime kiss performs or sings they deliver such a message that displays their self confidence and style that they're so good and they know it and everyone is in sync and in tune and every song that they sing turns into sort of a story or as ratliff describes it “to turn your song into commentary.” and captivating the audience into the sort of dominant style. I feel this example relates to the example I picked out of ratliff's playlist because of the certain attitude and feeling each person of the band brings like jimi hendrix, to me that is the most important part of wasteful authority.

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Examine at least one musical example in Ratliff’s playlist in detail – how does it exemplify this musical concept?

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Examine at least one musical example in Ratliff’s playlist in detail – how does it exemplify this musical concept?

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the musical example I chose to examine was Machine gun - Jimi Hendrix. The reason I chose this piece is the true passion and charisma and attitude you hear when Hendrix plays his guitar. He possesses the sort of attitude ratliff was talking about “sprezzatura” he defined it as the artist acknowledging he knows what the audience wants and might give it to them but might not. This is an aspect Hendrix possesses everytime he plays the guitar he is in tune with all his notes and everything flows and gives him the right self confidence.

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Define and evaluate the concept of wasteful authority (Ratliff, Ch. 11) as an important musical element across all kinds of music. Do you agree with Ratliff’s arguments regarding this musical element? Why or why not? 

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Define and evaluate the concept of wasteful authority (Ratliff, Ch. 11) as an important musical element across all kinds of music. Do you agree with Ratliff’s arguments regarding this musical element? Why or why not? 

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after reading Ratliffs chapter over wasteful authority, I find that this musical element is best described as displaying a certain confidence to an audience that portrays you really don't them. An artist that doesn't try to hard but puts forth the right amount of effort into their work. I agree with the arguments ratliff makes when he's talking about this musical element. The reason I agree is because he describes this element that it “involves self-confidence so great that it borders on cynicism” therefore leading an artist to have the audience listening for your commentary in the song and not just being a "musician", its about conveying your message and showing the a sort of swagger you have in tune with the music and yourself and not trying too hard to over complicate things and put forth a ton of effort. Ratliff describes it as ....“show you how little effort that takes, and how quickly I will forget what I just did.” and thats the sort of style wasteful authority displays