...Influence of Music Paper The different types of music genres have helped shape American culture and society and its social behavior of Americans. As time moves on and cultures change, so does the music and what it stands for. Music may sound and be different around the world, but its most common purpose it’s to bring individuals together. It seems that music, more than anything else, ties people together and tears them apart. Each culture around the world has caused music in general to evolve uniquely to each society. As society changes and grows, so will our music and what we believe in. Music has given American culture its values, the way that jazz, blues, and R&B created rock & roll, music created American culture that naturally has an influence on other cultures. It is an argument of whether music affects society or if society is reflected through music towards social behavior. It can also be said that any one type of music can influence society. For instance, a society can become more modernized such as individuals expanding their methods of playing musical instruments. Or as technology becomes more advanced with the digital era, individuals can listen to music on MP3 players, Ipads, cell phones or radio’s anywhere and anytime becoming more convenient. In today’s society, people have the right to choose what they want to listen to. This includes wide variety of styles or to even focus on one genre, depending on the musical qualities that appeal to them. Media, such as radio...
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...New economic policy (NEP) NEP era advertizement It was an idea based on ambition and imagination; an idea that worked so well, it managed to drag an entire country out of starvation and chaos and drive it onto the road to quick economic and industrial recovery. It created capitalism in a socialist state and cabaret-style debauchery under a military-communist regime. And like many other great yet paradoxical projects, perhaps, the Soviet Union’s New Economic Policy of the 1920s was too visionary to remain sustainable for long. Preconditions The year is 1921. Russia has just survived two revolutions, WWI and the Civil War. Not only the last royal family but the entire empire is gone, executed and left to deteriorate. Significant territories including Poland, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, parts of Ukraine, Belarus and more lands have either broken away or been taken away, while the population has diminished by at least twenty five million people. Production has fallen to the levels of the times of Peter the Great, hunger and devastation are the general picture all around. In fact, things are going so bad, even the revolutionary leadership, backed fearlessly by millions of people just a few years before, is itself becoming a target of mass anger. Fresh uprisings grip Siberia, the southern and western regions and even spread to the Red Army. The new communist regime headed by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky realizes something needs to be done quickly to prevent the country...
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...Heitzel Gonzalez HIST 1023.05 Crash Course: Roaring Twenties The roaring twenties was an era of movies, cars, music, illegal liquor, prosperity, credit, gangsters, and prejudice against immigrants. There was exciting changed, freedom, and a change in art like music, poets, and movies. Laissez-fair capitalism led to business growing drastically by governments not regulating it. Trade commission with people who shared same views. Government corruption warren, picked horrible friends they turned out being money hungry, and he was the first to have a cabinet member to be convicted of a felony. The first cars to be created Fords, Chrysler, and General Motors, however, other than for transportation, cars led people to have love affairs. Car and electronic business grew and stretched overseas, causing America to manufacture 85% of the world’s cars and 40% of other good. Toasters, vacuums, refrigerators, and washers allowed Americans’ to have more leisure time, to...
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...Fear and Loathing Postmodernism Postmodernism is a philosophical term that describes an era or movement in American culture marked by attitudes of skepticism which challenges many of the ideals of Modernism. As an opposition towards the modern era, Postmodernism can be identified in art through its related terms such as fragmentation, hyper-realism, deconstruction, pastiche and ambiguity. Specifically, postmodernism refutes such concepts as reality, the ability to reach perfection, absolute truth, the structures of capitalism, ideals represented within popular culture, political values and other core concepts related to the structures of American culture. The concept is often criticized as a truism for its ambiguity in its very definition. Ironically, ambiguity in relation to truth is as much a description of the term as it is a concept practiced within the cultural movement. For this reason, the term is perhaps most simplistically exemplified and defined through media texts which encode its ideologies. One such media text includes Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a film adapted from Hunter Thompson’s 1972 novel. In the following essay, I will define the concept of postmodernism through Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The media text uses humor to challenge modernistic ideas of one’s ability to achieve the Utopian “American dream,” which is often defined as the realization of ultimate happiness and success. Specifically, Fear and Loathing’s satirical refute of the existence...
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...changes in recent times. Some sociologists argue that these changes are so reflective that they represent an important shift, from the modern society of the past two centuries, to a new, postmodern society from the era of modernity to the era of postmodernity. Other sociologists disagree and argue that although recent changes have been very significant, these are actually part of modernity itself. In addition to this, opinions are also divided on what theory we need to understand these changes in society. Some have adopted the perspective known as postmodernism to describe society today while others have adopted existing modernist theories such as Marxism. Most sociologists agree that modern society emerged during the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century in Western Europe. Before understanding whether our current society is modern or postmodern, it is important to define a modern society. Modern societies are nation states; they are a key political unit in a bounded territory ruled by a centralized state and the people usually share the same language and culture. Another aspect of modern societies is capitalism, based in private ownership of means of production, maintaining the conditions under which it operates. Lash and Urry describe this as `organized capitalism. Wealth distribution in modern societies is uneven and Fordist principles are used to produce, involving a production line and cheap, unskilled labour prevent social uprising. Modern societies are, following the...
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...and unifying force, the impact of rock music was felt by the masses. Rock and Roll pitted the government, parents and the mass media against teenagers. At the same time rock and roll helped erode some of the social and political issues in America. The emergence and growth of rock n roll could be attributed to the events that took place in the 1950’s and 60’s in America (Azzam, 2007). Study of the role of rock n roll by historians evidently shows that its role was to unite the blacks and the whites by creating a common culture as well addressing the political issues during this period of warfare. This paper addresses Bob Dylan’s song of 1962 bringing out its role on addressing political and social injustices of the 1960’s. In a New York café was first heard was Bob Dylan’s song, “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ in 1962. At this time, there was a lot of anxiety in America following the events of the Cold War. A Cuba- Soviet Union alliance was getting cozy making the Pentagon and state department analysts nervous. At this summer period, there were reports that Russia had increased their military aide in Cuba. During the same time, Rob Dylan released a dozen of songs all which were politically influenced aiming at addressing the issues transpiring during this era. Historians and journalists have always treated Dylan as a quintessential protest singer. Historians and journalists have always treated Dylan’s songs as an emblematic of the postwar era. His songs were mostly politically oriented...
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...century. These are the advancement of the print, electronic, and digital eras, which now comprise our modern day media. These three eras have influenced American culture and its business, while introducing groundbreaking forms of mass communication (Campbell, 2015, p. 6). The Print Era Before the creation of the printing press, the production and reproduction of books and other reading materials, was by hand, making the item scarce and high priced. Considered a luxury due to its price, reading material was mostly owned by the privileged. In the early 1900’s newspapers, magazines, books, and word of mouth were the main source for obtaining the news or any informative piece of informative material. During the Civil War, people relied on newspapers for information. The emergence of the printing press allowed for many people to have access to printed materials at an affordable price. It also merged the three elements for mass-market innovation. First, the use of machine duplication substituted the tiresome technique in which clerk’s hand-copied scripts. Second, the quick and simple reproduction of the identical book could occur in vast quantities. Third, the cost of each unit was decreased due to the faster production of multiple copies, which made books more affordable to less wealthy people Production of large amounts became prominent in American culture as the Industrial Revolution, modern capitalism, and the consumer culture quickly followed. This also promoted literacy...
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...It escalated due to antagonist values between the Cumulated States, representing capitalism and democracy, and the Soviet Cumulation, representing communism and authoritarianism. Being the two ascendant world powers after WWII, contention between the Americans and Soviets became an ecumenical conflict. The Cold War differed from most wars in that it was as much of a propaganda war as a war with military engagements. The Korean and Vietnam Wars are consequential examples of military intervention by the Americans in the denomination of ceasing communist expansionism. However, these wars did not have the decade’s long impact on American domestic and peregrine policy that the cultural, political, and economic battles of the Cold War had. (Katy Fletcher,...
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...Pages|OP-ED COLUMNIST Capitalism for the Masses FEB. 20, 2014 Continue reading the main story David Brooks Continue reading the main storyShare This Page * EMAIL * FACEBOOK * TWITTER * SAVE * MORE Continue reading the main story When Arthur Brooks was 24, he was playing the French horn in a chamber music concert in Dijon, France. He noticed a beautiful woman smiling at him from the front row, so, after the recital, he made a beeline for her and introduced himself. Within seven seconds he came to two realizations. First, he was going to marry this woman. Second, she didn’t speak a word of English, and he didn’t speak a word of Spanish or Catalan, which were her languages. When he got home, he realized that if he was going to have a chance with Ester he was going to have to show some commitment. So he quit his job in America, moved to Barcelona and went to work with the Barcelona orchestra. Over the next few years, he learned Spanish and Catalan and Ester learned English. They have been happily married for 22 years. “Sometimes you just have to be all in,” says Brooks (who is no relation). “You have to go beyond cold utilitarian analysis.” Brooks later became a social scientist and is now president of the American Enterprise Institute, probably the most important think tank on the American right. He has emerged as one of the most ardent defenders of the free enterprise system. But the humanist that he is, he has primarily defended capitalism on moral terms...
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...Chapter 1 – Mass Communications: A Critical Approach Culture and the Evolution of Mass Communication * Culture * can be narrowly associated with art – forms of expression such as music or painting that provide enlightenment or insight * can also be viewed as a broader category that includes the entire spectrum of ways that people express themselves at particular historical times * including art, beliefs, customs, games, technologies, traditions, and institutions * it also encompasses modes of communication * the process of creating symbol systems that convey information and meaning * is made up of the products a society makes and the processes that create those products * can be defined as the symbols of expression that groups and societies use to make sense of daily life and to articulate their values * Mass media – the cultural industries and channels of communication – can then be seen as the distributors of culture. * the history of mass media can be traced through five main eras: * oral * written * print * electronic * digital * Mass communication – the process of delivering cultural messages to large and diverse audiences through media channels. Oral and Written Forms Begin the Dialogue * The oral and written ears spanned many centuries, from around 1000 BC to the mid-fifteenth century. * Knowledge was passed along through word of mouth ...
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...I personally believe that Rifkin provides a thoughtful vision of how the next century might play out, and its main message is one of hope for the future. He envisions a world beyond markets, where we could learn how to live together in, what he calls, a global “collaborative commons”. He explains how the emergence of the Internet of Tings is leading us in a new era: the age of free. He conceives that this future is only realisable, if we start questioning the very basis of capitalism. In this light, Rifkin describes how our capitalistic structure has always wanted a reduction in marginal costs (the cost of producing an additional unit). However he acknowledges the fact that nowadays, we are experiencing a technological revolution, spurred by the Internet of Things phenomenon, and that this revolution is bringing marginal costs near to zero, thus making goods and services priceless, free and abundant. This view, in his opinion, will obviously leads to the eclipse of capitalism. Let me give you a simple example from recent history: the music industry. Over the last few decades, this industry has become far less profitable, once we found out that tracks could be digitized and copied at near zero marginal cost....
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...in both Fitzgerald’s book and early 1900’s era was the rich and their endless supply of wealth spent on lavish materials and events (17.5). Evidently, the possession of luxuries was a sign of status and wealth. The Great Gatsby characters embodied this excessive lifestyle of moral ambiguity and obsession of wealth through the effusive parties. This immoderate use of money reflected in the novel was analogous to the equally excessive spending of the upper class in the 1920s. The wealthy submitted to the persuasion of consumer culture, frequenting department stores tailored to their social class. Consequently, this huge influx of spending during a fragile bubble of economic prosperity brought upon the depression after the Roaring Twenties. Naturally, the rich had profitable sources of income equal to their expenditure. However, many profited through ill-suited means, such as the character Jay Gatsby who worked with gangs to illicitly sell alcohol during a time of prohibition. Similar to that, the rich utilized capitalism to profit off the backs of workers. Though the demographic of the upper class was the smallest of the social classes, they were always the ones profiting due to capitalism. As workers’ wages lowered and their expenses increased, the owners of companies and businesses received a large share of profits from products blue collar workers made. This unjust system hadn’t gone unnoticed as socialist activists targeted capitalism as the crux of the lower class’ suffering...
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...The crises of the United States in the 1980’s were myriad. The decade began with the nation still mired in the Cold War despite defeat in Vietnam and cooperation in space, and continued with a recession, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the exposure of the Iran-Contra-cocaine affair. With access to new technologies and without faith in the government, self-expression found a new outlet: synthpop. Making music was easier to make and share than ever before, thanks to synthesizers, the MIDI file format, and MTV. In the current decade, we share similar anxieties. The threat of nuclear annihilation still looms, the war on terror has paved the way for a surveillance state as it murders civilians minimum wage has not increased with the cost of living, a celebrity is president, and technology...
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...United States of America underwent large scale change and by the start of the twentieth century was one of the richest nations in the world. By 1950 the U.S.A. was the richest country in the world and a superpower. The state was not the only thing to change during this period. From the late-nineteenth century up to the 1920s average Americans experienced a dramatic expansion in wealth and prosperity. However, with the Wall Street Crash in 1929 the U.S.A. experienced an economic depression that destroyed millions of livelihoods. This eventful period of American history led many to question the American Dreams place in modern America. This research paper will examine the interpretation of the American Dream in literature between the Progressive Era at the start of the twentieth century and the 1950s economic and social boom. In order to do this the paper will examine the novels The Jungle, The Great Gatsby and Death of a Salesman. These three novels all examine the American Dream in different decades. Written in 1906 by Upton Sinclair The Jungle is a novel that portrayed the life of immigrants and the working class in early-twentieth century America. The novel was published during the muckraking decade and its depiction of poverty, unpleasant living and working conditions and the corruption of those in power led it to be called “the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of wage slavery.” A socialist Sinclair believed that by the start of the twentieth...
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...Mercy University The New Era Justine Nurre HI 115 Edy Parsons March 13, 2015 In the 1920’s America economy grew greatly. The output from the nation’s manufacturing rose by greater than 60%, inflation was minor and the per capita income grew by a third. These happened because several things like technology. Technology was the most important development in which it helped develop the assembly line. This in turn led to automobiles becoming the most important industries in the nation. Automobiles made it possible for suburban housing and that led to a boom in the construction industry. Another technological gadget that contributed to the economic growth was the radio. The first radios could only send little broadcasts through pulses, but because of the discovery of the theory of modulation the radio was able to transmit music and speech. Many people started to build their own radios to save cost and it allowed owners to stay in contact with one another. Even though the economy was doing so well in 1929, more than two-thirds of Americans lived in conditions that were described as “minimum comfort level.” Half of those Americans were either at or below what was described as “subsistence and poverty.” During the 1920’s, Americans were able to experience successes and failures. Some workers started to see their standard of living begin to increase and others saw techniques that were known as “welfare capitalism.” Welfare capitalism workers still saw an increase...
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