...Music in my Life Tina Austin Kaplan University 10/16/12 I have a love for music, all types of music. Music has many different effects on me, from happiness to sadness and it can bring me peace or make me feel wildly crazy. Music is really never boring to me. I live my life through music. The song that immediately pops into my mind when I think of my childhood is Belinda Carlisle’s ‘She’s got the Beat’. This song had a fun, upbeat tempo to it and my childhood best friend and I used to dance and sing this song when at recess in elementary school. It brings me back to a time where life was simple, fun and innocent. Even today, 35 years later, my friend and I will talk about those days and laugh at how silly we were thinking that we would be rock stars and that this song was going to be the one that made us famous (even though it was someone else’s song and we couldn’t sing a single note on key). As a teenager, my taste in music changed, as did my environment. In 1984 my family moved to Arizona and I had to start all over. All of my friends, the close community I lived in and along with that, my friends changed too. My music preference changed to rock and roll, or more specifically, heavy metal. Groups like Metallica, Guns N Roses and Motley Crue were some of the bands I listened too. One song that I recall was my favorite then was ‘School’s Out for Summer’ by Alice Cooper. As a teenager, I despised school, so that song made me happy when it would come on the radio in the...
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...sat in front of my computer and thought about what this meant, it occurred to me that this wasn’t something I had really put much effort into finding out in the past. What is culture? Carla definition was simple. It’s defined as the shared pattern of behavior and interactions and these shared patterns identify the members of a culture group. Popular culture also known as "pop culture" is something that is a totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, and images. Simply put it’s the way we live our lives. Many of us have changed through out the year which is expected, so this is why I chose to go this route with this easy. At my age, as a charming thirty year old male, my trends have changed, so I take you back to the age of twenty-one where my life was everything about image, about the clothes I wore, the music I listened to and even the shows I watched. This was everything in life. First you have the designer clothes I wore such as Sean John pants, Rock-A-Wear shirts, and the air force one shoes, for my fashion incline the Nikes I wore. The type of clothes I wore meant everything. It defined me and who I was and how I wanted to be known as the individual who wore the latest fashion. Not because I wanted people to know I had some money in my pocket, but to let the people around me know that I was well off and had a good career. Now being thirty I see things a little different. The style I wear is based on what’s comfortable to me. I no longer care if my shirt or pants...
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...Copyright Law Music creativity At the young age of 12, my mom bought me a brand new stereo system for Christmas. Unbeknownst to her, the gift came hidden with a special perk that allowed me to record my favorite songs from the radio onto cassette tapes that I could give away to my friends or use to make my own mix tapes. I made a hobby of recording my favorite songs and remixing them with songs of a different genre. Five years later I became a professional DJ, using more sophisticated tools of course, but with the same creativity I had garnered from the cassette recordings. Had my mother known that she would be supplying her son with the equipment to become a copyright criminal, she probably would have thought twice about her gift and I would’ve never had the opportunity to discover my musical potential. Copyright laws in the music industry need to be changed, to allow everyone, including artists, to combine their talents with the efficiency of the Internet. In the remix culture of today, everyone has an inner-DJ. Music sharing has grown drastically from sharing cassette tapes, to burning CD’s, to p2p networking. People all over the world now share and create new music, while breaking copyright laws and industry codes in the process. Aware of their crimes or not, Internet music sharing has quickly become a competitor with the large music industry and this needs to be addressed. As Lessig proved in his book “Free Culture”, technology has often changed faster than laws...
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...Music that changed my Life By Elizabeth Thrush Kaplan University 2012 The Art of Being Human As I was growing up as a child I really did not listen to music. The music that I do remember hearing was what my mom and step dad listen to and that was country. By hearing this music it made me feel that I was not alone and that other was going throw what I was going throw. A sad period in my life, I was put in a foster home and my step was a very bad man. When I left my mom was the worst day of my life until I heard a song by Dolly Parton, Coats of many Colors. The lyric of this song really has touched my life for a long time. Thinking of how my life is a reminder of this song. As a teenager, I listen to rock-n-roll. The hair band like gun-n-rose, Prison and Rat was the one that I listened to the most. I had to dress like them and have that funk like to myself, like the cloths and the big hair. I had no care in the world about my parents I was running wild and having funny. But by doing that I got in trouble a lot. It was a funny time and I love it. I was rebelling against my mom so bad. When a finish school I got pregnant with my son and trying to listen to the music I real like as a kid gave me a headache, so I start to listen to country. This music real calmed me and relaxes me in a way that I could really relate to it more. My day to day life was just like to songs that I lived. Living my life throws music and personally relationship is how I get throw...
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...My passion for music and the arts started at a very young age. I was a member of a gospel music organization called the West Virginia Mass Choir. I was fortunate enough to have parents and grandparents that believed in my talents and they enrolled me in a professional children’s chorus in the city of Charleston, West Virginia called the Appalachian Children’s Chorus. I was able to have that as an outlet to not only learn more about music, but learn more about myself on a personal level. Of course, I was also in choir and band throughout my schooling from elementary to high school. As I grew older I realized that there were so many ways that music effected my life. No matter how I felt there was always a piece of music that I could go to in...
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...------------------------------------------------- My Musical Auto-Biography Music 103 Giovanni Classen BMCC Dr. Bethany Reeves They say a picture is worth a thousand words. To me, composers paint a thousand pictures through melody, rhythm, and artistic lyrical ability. As I’ve grown, music has been a major part of my life; whether through culture and getting together with family, grabbing an instrument (I played the “Güiro”, a Latin instrument, in which I grabbed a metal object which resembled a comb and brushed it against an object with notches in it creating a ratchet like sound.), and just playing into the night. When I was younger, I was also a member of the choir where I attended church and catholic school, being an alto until puberty kicked in. So whether I was conscious of it or not, music has always found its way into my life. I like to say that music is in my blood. My father plays the guitar and sings in nightclubs occasionally throughout the city. I have a cousin in Puerto Rico who plays the Cuatro, a Latin 10 string instrument resembling a guitar; he also sings, performs, and sells his music. Two brothers of mine along with myself are also heavily involved with music. Coming from a poverty stricken neighborhood riddled with drugs, violence, and death, we used Hip-Hop as a tool for expression, giving voice to the issues while at the same time painting a picture for others to see what it’s like within our world. A musical event that I would like to write about would be my first mixtape release...
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...that help form our lives by looking back on how others lived and thought about life. The humanities are essential for understanding the past that is responsible for the creation of the present. The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition using methods that are largely analytic, critical, or speculative. This differs from academic disciplines which use an empirical approach in which evidence is gathered using the senses. The study of the human condition, the humanities cover areas such as art, music, architecture, philosophy, and literature. All other modes of human inquiry are about studying non-human subjects. If it does not encompass the human condition, it is not generally classified as humanities. Art Art has long been a means of expressing social or political ideas. Anselm Kiefer took art and brought it to an entirely new level by using his art to bring attention to national identity and collective memory. In the process his art began evolving to include occult symbolism, theology, and mysticism. All of his work shares a common theme of the trauma experienced by entire societies and the continual rebirth and renewal in life. Kiefer’s works are usually designed in a depressive and destructive style in large scale formats. He often uses photography in conjunction with earth and raw materials. Kiefer is known to include names of people o ... One of the most unforgettable cultural events I have attended was the musical, Les Miserables, which...
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...hobby is a useful thing. It allows you to do something that you enjoy doing and relaxes the body and mind. Some people have just one hobby but there are many others who enjoy several. Nonetheless, many agree that doing something that you like during your free time can be very therapeutic. Even more so if you can give others joy through your hobby. My father is one example of this. My father retired from work about eight years ago. Before his retirement, he was the head of one department in a big company. Even though he had a secretary, my father was burdened with paperwork. His evenings were usually spent in his study room and he only came out for dinner and to wish his children goodnight. Weekends meant he had to go out to entertain his clients. He seldom had free time for himself or for his own family. So when he retired, he underwent a complete change of life, which flabbergasted him. He had all this free time to spare but nothing to do. He has never had a hobby only because he never had the time, so to occupy the free time he had then, he tried his hand on almost everything. He started with going fishing with his friend. But gave up because he fell asleep and almost fell into the pond. Then he tried gardening. That did not work either because he was bending and crouching so much that he sprained his hack. After that, he took up ballroom dancing with my mother. He enjoyed it so much until he tripped and fell clumsily in front of hundreds of people during a dancing party....
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...that I have developed for music has to be high on that list. It was in fourth grade that I was really introduced the wonder that is music. That January, at the age of ten, I suddenly matured in a way that I could not have imagined. From that day on, a part of me began to develop. Now, that passion is one of the cornerstones of who I am as a person. This change can be largely credited to a big hero of mine: my sister, Anniestacia. Her active involvement in band blazed the trail for what would become one of the biggest parts of my life. As a multitude of students do, Stacia joined the sixth grade band at Bay Minette Intermediate School. When I heard about her joining, not much went through my head except the thought that there would not be much quiet around the house anymore. As I went to her concerts that year, I went through the motions of being an audience member, clapping after every song, and even standing up...
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...things to my life. I couldn’t imagine not having either one of them. I felt like a very different person than before I met them. I had changed - my life had completely and utterly changed. It was okay though. I was happy; I was really happy. I needed to get ready for work. I dragged myself up and got in the shower, got dressed and ready. When I hit the end of the hallway, I could hear music playing downstairs, so I assumed the guys were down there. I made my way to them. As soon as I entered the kitchen Charlie yelled, “Stop right there don’t move!” I stopped...
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...Missing the B Flat Is there something in your life that you love more than absolutely anything? Something you wish you could do constantly? Something that you would do anything for? For me, that something is playing music, and it has changed my life. There is absolutely nothing that I would rather do than to pick up a pair of sticks or mallets and start playing. In short, music is my life. 1.Because of all this, I have decided on a career in music directing. The salary may not be the best, but there are many other benefits of going into this career, such as the fact that there are next to zero health hazards, you have time to spend with your family, and you are able to fully enjoy your job. You will have some responsibilities, of course, but...
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...percussion for over eight years, there were people would later go to audition for all-state, and people who marched for national drum corps! I learned many rules my 8th grade year being in the front ensemble. The first thing that I learned was: you’re never alone. Dalton Craven taught me this rule when I was supposed to bring in seven percussion items outside by myself. While you’re...
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...became a mother. I expected changes like more responsibility, no social life, and less sleep. However, I never anticipated how much bringing a new life in the world would reshape my identity. I love being a mom, so for me this new identity was a blessing. Unfortunately, identity changes cannot always come from blessings. Like Pete Hamill in “Zip USA: New York City, NY; After the Fall,” James McBride in “Hip-Hop Planet,” Brent Staples in “Black Men and Public Space,” and myself, life experiences have made us rethink who we are. A person’s identity often can be shaped by major life experiences. First, in the article “After the Fall,” Hamill’s identity was changed because of the attack on the twin towers in New York City. After witnessing the fall of Tower two, he celebrated to even be alive. According to Hamill, “We all learned, that terrible morning, that we could die while reaching for a piece of toast at breakfast” (7). After the attack, Hamill’s perspective on life changed. He no longer took his life for granted the way he had before. Secondly, in the article “Hip-Hop Planet,” McBride’s identity was changed once he chose to accept Hip-Hop music. After research, he realized Hip-Hop is all over the world and constantly changing. According to McBride, “That is why after twenty-six years, I have come to embrace this music I tried so hard to ignore”(16). He changed his opinion about Hip-Hop music so he could keep a relationship with his daughter. Lastly, in the...
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...I Believe Essay I believe in the power of music. Ever since I was young, music always seemed to calm me down or simply make me feel better. Music is like a medicine to me, and my parents would laugh at how much I enjoyed music. Whenever a song would come on, my parents would sit and watch me, while giggling to each other, as i stop bouncing off walls and calm down to the sound of music. I listen to music every day because of how much I appreciate and love it. The reason why I love music so much is because music always tends to suck me in to what is being sung. Often when I listen to a song, no matter what the song is, I get sucked into the song. What I mean by this is that when I am listening to a song, I imagine the song was intended for me. I relate to the song whether it is from my past, present, or future. This is what causes me to relax whenever I’m listening to music. This is why I view music as a powerful thing. I remember when I was younger and didn’t really relate or pay as much time listening to music like the way I do now. Whenever I heard a song, I never gave it much thought that it actually had meaning behind the lyrics that the artist was trying to get across. I would just nod my head to the beat of the music instead of relating to it like I do now. It took me till freshman year of high school to start seeing and hearing the power in music. During that year, I bought a nice pair of headphones to go along with my IPod. Only then did I actually start to pay...
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...Life in The Media Lane Now a days the majority of the world is using media in one way or another. My media use is something like a never ending marathon. Based off my recordings, the results show a significantly huge amount is phone usage, and a decent amount of TV/iPad use. In a lot of situations my media use is more instrumental rather than habitual. For instance I could be in the middle of cooking and feeding my nephew but yet I still have the nerve to reach for my phone without it going off. In the process of arriving at the airport and waiting to board, I noticed there are things everyone else does along with myself that has to do with media use. The repetitive action of checking my phone is more frequently becoming something like a hobby. That says a lot about my media use, it's something I do without even thinking about it sometimes. and get deep into whatever I'm doing. On my chart, I observed while doing my homework I would look over to my phone or constantly grasp it for no reason. The average person checks their phone one-hundred and ten times a day. I can say the longest period of time without touching or using my phone is three and a half hours, and that was because I was on a plane. But on a normal routine day I'd say no longer than forty-five minutes, this has become the norm for me within the last three years. During the days I spent recording my media use, I also asked e few people I encountered what's the first thing they do after waking up. And the majority...
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