MARK! MY WORDS IBD

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Classical music, jazz, film scores, and the masterpieces of musical theater are in danger of fading into an undeserved oblivion. This crisis extends not only to music, but also to an ignorance of good books, art, theater, and films. This crisis is exacerbated by our vanishing history, a decline in language, and a pervasive celebrity culture. If this problem is not solved, our nationâÇÖs cultural and artistic heritage will be irretrievably lost. 'Mark! My Words' by Mark Evans is the first book to address the challenge of this crisis. The author, a composer, writer, and broadcaster presents compelling evidence that change and progress are not synonymous and that 'new and improved' often means a bigger box and fewer corn flakes .He explains why we have become a nation of hares instead of tortoises.áIn todayâÇÖs high tech world, students are emerging from school:âÇóUnfamiliar with any music other than what theyâÇÖve encountered through social mediaâÇó Unable to write, spell, or speak using the English language correctly. âÇóAs experts on the lives of celebrities, but ignorant of the most basic facts of American history.âÇó Spending countless hours texting, tweeting, and downloading on the latest digital devices, but without reading any book that hasnâÇÖt been assigned to them in years. âÇóWith a healthy respect for the present, but a complete disdain for the past.áIn' Mark! My Words' readers will encounter:âÇóTrue achievers in the arts who are ignored while we celebrate the accomplishments by geniuses of self-promotion. âÇóTeenagers who are mesmerized by pop culture and say they would rather be the assistant to a celebrity than president of a university or a successful business enterprise. âÇóComposers of classical music who have turned music into mathematics and have lost their audience as a result, while great composers are dismissed and ridiculed by critics. âÇóPromoters of rock, pop, and rap music that have corrupted our musical culture while crying all the way to the bank. âÇóModern artists who promote the credo 'Art is what you can get away with.' âÇóGraduates of prestigious colleges who are who are unfamiliar with the great events of American history, and who canâÇÖt tell the difference between the words of Thomas Jefferson and those of Karl Marx. âÇóLibrarians who are busy taking our best books off the shelves of their libraries. âÇóTeachers who smile and nod while children make mistakes in reading. âÇóLawyers and government bureaucrats who canâÇÖt write a simple English sentence âÇóEnglish professors who have never read a play by Shakespeare. But 'Mark! My Words' isnâÇÖt just about our cultural problems, it also offers solutions to those problems.áYouâÇÖll meet real heroes in 'Mark! My Words' like the inner city teacher who changed the lives of her students by starting her own school. YouâÇÖll celebrate the achievements of composers, writers, and artists who have stood for integrity in an age of cultural confusion. The solution cannot be fo