For What It's Worth

The lyrics and music for the short film are originally from 1967 by the acclaimed classic rock group Buffalo Springfield.

This music clip can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehzRS8mZOFM

It was comprised and posted on YouTube on January 02, 2008 by: http://www.youtube.com/thegratefulred

This piece consists of the YouTube artist, as well as the profound musical group Buffalo Springfield. The YouTube artist is referred to as "thegratefulred." She compiled the pictures, alterations, and dramatic effects to flow with the music, and really attribute to the heartfelt meaning and symbolism of Buffalo Springfield's unforgettable music creations. This YouTube artist has created and posted several other pieces. In addition, Buffalo Springfield is a remarkable group of musical artists.

Buffalo Springfield may have only been together for about too many years, but they were such a fundamentally outstanding muscial group, that they consequently set the stage for the country-rock and folk-rock music which really came about and expanded in the 1970's. In addition for leaving the roots for the presently popular American cultured style and movement. Not to mention the fact that Buffalo Springfield originally produced two of rock’s greatest guitarists in Neil Young and Stephen Stills.

This musical piece has always stood out to me as a remarkable song with hopefully aspirations and the purpose of motivating peace, to have love and compassion, and to end war and save lives. In particular, I love this particular video for the song because of how perfect it is with the peaceful images and anti-war pictures. This video clip flows together very poetically and wonderfully outspoken with symbolism, and motivation for a better way of life during a time overrun with war and suffering. It brings the lyrics, images, and music itself together in a very moving and inspirational way, as well as being purely enjoyable and aesthetically pleasing.

This is absolutely a delightfully enjoyable and thought-provoking piece of art. This is due to the immense musical talent and creative ability that was demonstrated in the poetic lyrics and musical sequences, as well as the collaboration of images and intermediate aspects to bring the entire piece together into an easily enjoyed music video.

When actually considering this work's aesthetic properties and value, the Instrumental and Emotionalist Theories would be most useful out of Anderson's "Quartet of Traditions." Specifically, this visual and musical piece strongly evokes powerful feelings and emotions, hence the Emotionalist Theories; in addition to it demonstrating it's ability to be a social, political, and possibly spiritual tool to hopefully motivate and improve life concerning the Instrumental Theories. It can be view many possible ways, as the supposed "ancestor" of this work being opera and musical creations within the distant past, as well as the most recent history; not to mention the photograph being the primary visual "ancestor," with the composition of countless photographs and possible digital images which collaborate together to perfect this piece of art.

I hope this has been aesthetically pleasing for everyone, especially since classic rock means a great deal to me, significantly with the immense emotional creativity and poetic symbolism.

Sources:

http://www.reasontorock.com/tracks/for_what_its_worth.html

www.rockhall.com/inductee/buffalo-springfield

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehzRS8mZOFM

www.youtube.com/thegratefulred