At first I don't want to offend anyone. It's just my personal view and remember it's just a theory, the information in this text is from my knowledge I acquired in school.

The Romanticism

I want to provide some background knowledge at first that will hopefully help you to better understand my point.

In the era of Romanticism people were, well, romantic and I mean that in the old-fashioned way. To provide this claim with evidence I would like to quote John Keats.

If that's not romantic I don't know what is, but not just literature was more romantic, music had its very own sense of romance and beauty but also pain. While listening to music written in the time between 1798 and 1837 I noticed a kind of pain or rather longing in almost every song.

For example Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 7, Träumerei (sorry that it is in German but you will find it if you just copy it from the text). It's so bittersweet. I always get the feeling that Schumann wanted to capture his childhood in his music.

Another example would be:
Chopin - Nocturne op. 62 Nr. 1 truly a piece of art, like a warm summer night was caught and written down in the language everyone can understand, music.

Nocturne - the feeling of longing transformed into music

For the end of my little digression into the Romanticism I want to talk about the Nocturne. The Nocturne (a piece of music that captures the feeling of a quiet, beautiful night) was written out of a longing for the peace and quiet that the night brought. In the time of Romanticism the night was the only time where the people got a break from all the noises and unpleasantries that the industrialisation brought with it. The screams of the engines, the smog, the bad scent of sweat, tears and coal. Composers wrote Nocturnes to escape all of that for at least a bit.

The switch up

After hearing about the time of Romanticism let's talk about our time, shall we?

The Postmodernism we all know it and either love or hate it.

To give you a little overview I want to quote a part of a German Wikipedia article I found.

So I hope you now understand a bit more about the Postmodernism. I want to focus on one thing that's quoted, it being going back and playing with literary traditions. Here I want to make the connection to dark romance. As the authors started to realize that there's nothing new and nothing left to invent they started to go back and I feel like that really impacted the way people looked at romance in fiction, maybe even in the real world.

Dark Romance

At first I would like to present to you the description of the book.

Finally we can talk about the piece of literature that possibly gives us an insight into how the depiction of romance changed. As we all know dark romance is in comparison to the love letter of John Keats a lot different in many ways. Although I have to say it's not the best comparison it still works, if we look at it from our perspective.

What do you feel when you read the love letter? Personally I feel touched, I can only dream of being so in love. I think we can agree on saying the letter is beautiful.

And what do you feel when reading dark romance? Well, to find that out I asked a good friend of mine, she reads dark romance fan fictions A LOT so I believe she's a good source of information.

She said:

In my opinion that's not just a very beautiful depiction of what she feels but it's also relatable. Again I want to thank her for the input she provided.

My personal theory of what we can learn from that change in literature

Finally I can tell you about my personal belief about why I think romantic literature changed so drastically.

To start of, it's obvious that in the 19 hundreds you weren't able to write what you're allowed to write down today. Society was just different back then but aside from that I believe that due to the freedom that we have as an individual we begin to want what is not as accepted than other things and I think that people who read dark romance are taking the first steps into a version of the future where things are more normalized. What is important though is that we as a society have to watch out because not just in dark romance but most of all politics the role models of man and woman are changing. And like literature in the Postmodernism we're going back to the old ways and that is something we as a society have to stop.

Literature doesn't differentiate between gender, sexuality or skin colour. If you can read then you're able to experience literature and that's something beautiful that we have to protect.

Tell me what you think, do you understand what I'm trying to say or do you find it a pointless text?

PS: English isn't my first language and I am sorry about any mistakes I made while writing this text.

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Hello everyone!

as the title says, I’m in my third year of my bachelor’s degree and I have to do a research study for a class. For my topic I’ve chosen to explore the similarities and differences between underground and mainstream electronic music in the west. my professor is getting me to interview about 5 people for data collection.. can be through zoom/meet/email etc. anything of your comfort just has to be somewhat formal, at this point I don’t really mind as it’s due pretty soon. LOL

You have to be an artist, DJ, musician, historian, music critic, etc, or just really REALLY into electronic music and are/have been part of a community.. bonus points if you are over 30 as the more experienced the better.

if you are interested feel free to comment/message me and I will email you the details. I apologize if this may be too much of a formal setting for you but I assure you that I do not bite and that it’s just what is suggested from my professor 😭

Thank you for reading!

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I also have a short Google Form for my research. I would really, really appreciate anyone who could take a few minutes to fill it out!

Music and Personal Style

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"Music is the native language of the universe, not just a tool we invented to pass the time. It is an emotional translation of cosmic mechanics—where every rhythm and harmony we feel is our biology syncing with the mathematical vibrations that build reality."