Quincy Jones Wants Ambassador For The Arts - YES!

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http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/01/11/quincy_jones_wants_ambassador_for_the_ar


Music legend Quincy Jones is urging President-elect Barack Obama to create a ministry of culture, insisting it's embarrassing the government has no ambassador for the arts.

The producer claims the U.S. and Germany are the only countries with no culture minister, which he regards as ridiculous, considering America's contribution to popular music, movies, television and theater around the globe.

Jones, who has worked with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and Donna Summer, among others, says, "Every country on the planet is playing American music. And we don't have a ministry of culture."
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and art and physical ed. classes should be reinstalled in our public schools, all 12 grades, mandatory.

[monmouth]

1. He would be soooo perfect for the job. Go Quincy, one of the greatest

musicians of our time.

[Donnachaidh]

2. uhh -- when was phys ed taken out?

My kid's school has had mandatory phys ed since grade one.

What is TRULY needed is MUSIC. Not just history of music classes - REAL music classes - minimum of choral music and orchestra. EVERY kid should be learning music. It's been shown to actually help when they are learning math.

And we should be teaching HISTORY. Of all subjects. Take it out of that Frankenstonian dump heap called Social Studies and make it ONE subject again -- HISTORY.

Social Studies is an abomination birthed by idiots. Kill it NOW, and bring back the basics.

[MADem]

5. Hiring a minister of culture won't put music in schools. Congress voting an

appropriation to states for needy cities and towns to be spent on music and art classes would.

History, civics....all of that needs to come back. It's no wonder that kids today don't know shit about their own heritage.

[MADem]

3. NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO to a Minister of Culture!!! NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!

You think Quincy Jones is cool, but you might not like Minister LEE GREENWOOD.

Quincy is "art," but how will you like Minister Ted Nugent to be transmitting America's viewpoint of the artistic to the world?

We have an independent federal agency called the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.

Make that BETTER. Give it more funding. Give it more outreach capability.

Don't give Quincy a make-work, bullshit job. Quincy is a great guy, but this is a SHITTY precedent.

I vote NO!!!!!!

[Rebubula]

4. Agreed...NT