Ioannidis Nikolaos-Domination theory- Lyrics

CD album: Mass insanity (2002 Homo Ecumenicus)

Music, Lyrics, Arrangement, Performance: IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS

N. Ioannidis is a composer, lyricist, guitar soloist and multi-instrumentalist performer (BA Music & Media Studies, MA Digital Media Studies, currently doctoral candidate in Musicology at the University of Sussex)

Genre: Sui generis

Arrangement: fretless electric guitar, vocals, bass, ethnic percussion (defi, tumberleki, darabuka)

Lyrical subject: the domination of the intellectual community by the perceptions of leftist cultural theorists, which legalize the keeping of society hostage to the choices of the manipulated, ignorant masses.

Listen also to audio sample of another fretless guitar work by Ioannidis Nikolaos: When the thief accuses you of cheating (MP3)

Domination theory

In the neighborhood of Frankfurt
there's a party going on.
Erich Frohm and Althousser, Adorno and Markuse
make plans to save the masses
from the ruling class elites
- the American capitalists,
'masters to create false needs'.
Ioannidis listens;
Takes the guitar and starts to sing:
Enough with victimized masses!
It's them who dominate elites!
Why don't you try to save me instead
from your precious masses' rule,
who won't let me have a say,
unless I take my pants off.

A list of all IOANNIDIS' works (musical works, lyrics, essays, translations of classical texts) is available at his WORKS page.

ESSAYS on music and media

MP3 files of his musical works (samples and some full songs) are available for downloading at the Ioannidis Mp3 page

Works of interest to classicists and composers

The Music of Ancient Greeks an approach to the original singing of the Homeric epics and the lyrical poetry of the 8th-5th century B.C.

MUSIC and RELIGION (extant ancient Greek religious songs, Byzantine chant, Gregorian chant, Quranic chant)

Oedipus Rex English opera. Audio excerpt of this work is available online in mp3 format. Also available is the complete Greek text of Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus the king".

Works of interest to poets and lyricists Ancient Greek epic and lyrical poems translated into English by Ioannidis (The original Greek texts are also available on the same page)

LYRICS (to songs from the albums Mass insanity , BE A MASTER OF YOUR FATE! , AREN'T YOU FED UP? ) dealing with the dominant political, social, and ethical issues of our time: the erosion of the nation state, globalization, terrorism, the moral and cultural decadence of modern society.

Works of interest to music performers

Instrumental performance:12-string Guitar Works (12 string classical guitar), Mass insanity (electric guitar, fretless guitar), The Music of Ancient Greeks (ancient Greek instruments -ancient kithara, aulos, ethnic percussion).

Vocal performance: MUSIC and RELIGION (including some tracks with performance of ancient Greek instruments)

Visit also the page: ANCIENT GREEK INSTRUMENTS with information about ancient stringed instruments and replicas of some of them (reconstructed by Ioannidis and used in his ancient Greek recordings).