...History of Rock and Roll Who invented rock and roll? Well, the answer is nobody. Rock music is the innovation and evolution of many different types of music from a wide variety of groups of people. No one planned rock and roll, and it took over a great deal of American culture and revolutionized popular music. Rock and roll was influenced by African American music as well as white American styles. Since the introduction of minstrel shows in America in 1840, people have created and developed many other kinds of music. Mostly originated from African Americans, swing, blues, and jazz music was an early beginning to rock music. Many musical qualities were brought with African slaves into America. Some of the qualities include improvisation, “call and response” singing, and a dynamic rhythm. They created spiritual music and blues, which later evolved into what we know today as gospel music and “rhythm and blues.” White American music is based on of folk-style songs, mostly ballads in small bands of musical instruments. At the start of the 20th century, these folk style songs became referred to as hillbilly music. The transition to country-western music began with singers like Jimmie Rodgers and Gene Autry. After World War II, soldiers returning home wanted to feel at home again. This started the era of playing music on the radio, with programs such as Grand Ole Opry, which still runs today. This genre of music used guitars, Hawaiian guitar and drums on occasion to create a new...
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...Samantha Wilson Dr. Carter English 112 FO1 24th February 2013 Pop culture and Our Society Pop culture gives the notion of having a lot of negative implications associated with it. Opponents accuse the mass media of minimizing the intellect of society. Pop culture has grown increasingly more complex over the past thirty years. Some of the biggest influences of style in pop culture stems from watching television, genres of music, video games, the internet and individual trends and fashions. Television plays a major role in present day pop culture. The Nielsen Company estimates that there are 114.7 million United States households with a television. Commercials, music videos, and television shows that push the limits of the FCC, are in a continuous rotation on most networks. TV shows have changed a lot over the past thirty-five years. Also, people have changed their thoughts and perceptions about family concepts, social behaviors, personal interactions, and what’s acceptable in society. Families are no longer viewed perfect as they were once portrayed. Television shows with families like the Cosby’s, the Cleaver’s (Leave It to Beaver), and the Brady’s (Brady Bunch) have become obsolete to today’s suggestive humored sitcoms. Nowadays most television shows are based upon sex, drugs and violence. Sex and murder have become the norm on primetime television. Media news today did a study with 600 films and 5,000 students to find that movies play an important role in people lives (medical...
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...339 What Is the K in K-pop? South Korean Popular Music, the Culture Industry, and National Identity John Lie* In the early 2010’s, the expansion of South Korean popular culture around the world is led by popular music, usually known as Kpop. In this paper I seek to answer two questions. First, what are the sources of its success beyond the South Korean national border? Secondly, what does it say about contemporary South Korean society and culture? Key Words: K-pop, Korean Wave, Hallyu, South Korean Popular Culture, Popular Music I. Introduction T he phenomenal success of the Korean Wave has generated collective celebration in South Korea.1 In the early 2010s, the national self* John Lie is C.K. Cho Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University. His forthcoming books include The Global University and The Consolation of Social Theory. E-mail: johnlie@berkeley.edu. 1. The Korean Wave is the literal translation of the term which originated in China ( ; Hánliú). The first character refers to “Korea” and the second usually evokes “flow” or “current,” signifying “style.” The same Chinese characters KOREA OBSERVER, Vol. 43, No. 3, Autumn 2012, pp. 339-363. © 2012 by THE INSTITUTE OF KOREAN STUDIES. 340 John Lie congratulation is especially manifest for the popularity of South Korean popular music (K-pop), which has spread from neighboring Asian countries, such as Japan and...
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...Rock Music and Culture Report There were many people and events that shaped my taste in music as a teenager in the 1990’s. My parents raised me in a household of strictly Country & Western music. Grunge music had exploded in the United States. The political atmosphere in the 90’s was going through a transition from a Republican President to a Democratic President that promised many changes. Although my parents raised me on country &western, and grunge was the predominant music style on the 90’s, and the country was going through big changes politically I have matured into my own eclectic taste in music today. When I was growing up my parents only listened to country& western music. They both grew up on farms, and that was the predominant music available to them. My dad was also a huge fan of Elvis Presley, and my mom listened to Willie Nelson, and Kenny Rogers. Around the age of 10 I remember my dad winning the Michael Jackson album Bad in a raffle, and he didn’t want it, so he gave it to me. This is my first memory of really getting to explore a type of music other than country& western. I was hooked on the upbeat dance tempo, and strong message of confidence. The first time my brother showed me the music video for “Bad” on MTV I became addicted to learning the moves of the urban street gang dancers. As a pre-teen my first musical “love” was The New Kids on the Block. I had my entire bedroom plastered with the posters I had ripped out of magazines such as Tiger Beat...
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...we will present the result of our marketing research, and the analysis of marketing mix. The SWOT analysis is also an essential part of this plan. The insights of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats offer our company a good foundation before implementing the marketing plan. Below is some background information of Black Light Discipline band: Black Light Discipline is a Finnish band founded in 2005 on the idea to make captivating, synth-based grooves with a mix of metal and electro genres. This fresh mixture makes BLD one of the most interesting groups playing electro-metal and the sound could well be described as raw, fleshy but still atmospheric. Their music's style is often categosided as electro-metal or industrial-rock. In the bands five year lifespan this Kuopio-based group has developed their unique sound. Becoming more and more active, BLD is pushing the envelope...
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...305 The Punk movement as a reaction to stagnant music scene of the 70s Ivan Stevanovic 3461726 The Punk movement is often seen as a reaction to what was regarded as a blown up and stagnant, self-indulging music scene in the mid-70s. In wider perspective, it is considered not merely as a music genre, but more as a complex mixture of social, cultural, rebellious upheaval of the marginal, disillusioned young white generation, first in the US and UK and then in the rest of the western world. This essay will try to explore these statements and find out whether any of the two can be considered as the only cause for the emergence of punk. MUSIC INFLUENCES AND BACKGROUND One would say that any form of modern music in its initial phase is a protest, by default. That could be supported by numerous examples throughout the music history when rebellious young artists were crossing the boundaries of the conventional music genres and styles and often rejected from the music establishment. The stylistic music origins of punk could be found in second half of the twentieth century. First it was rock’n’roll of the fifties that shook the post war society with its wild rhythms and raw cords played on electric guitars amplified to produce more “noise”. The other influences were R&B, country and rockabilly and in the 60s many sub-genres that emerged on the rock music scene like: garage rock, frat rock, psychedelic rock, pub rock, glam rock, and proto-punk. Although its origins can be traced...
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...radio, internet, television, film and smart phones, has the ability to constantly communicate messages to extremely large audiences across the globe and therefore is a major influence on the way the environment affects our socialization process. Mass media is a significant force in moderrn culture; sociologists refer to this as mediated culture, were the media reflects and creates culture. Although family is suppose to be the most important agent of socialization the development of new technologies has bridged an increasing gap between the older and younger generations. Newer generations are drawn into the entertaining and appealing world of technology and are being constantly bombarded with messages from a multitude of media sources, these messages not only promote products, but moods, attitudes, and a sense of what is and is not important. With lesser and lesser interaction between the older and younger generations cultural traditions, values, morals and attitudes of institutions and families are being disintegrated and replaced by the mass Medias ideas and perceptions. This social conditioning is spread mainly through Music, television, the internet and print media. Music exerts significant influences on its listeners as it can express, convey and illicit powerful emotions that its...
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...Study on Consumer Behaviour Toward Dr. Martens Content 1. Introduction1 2. History of Dr. Martens2 3. Cultures and Subcultures6 3.1. Skinhead6 3.2. Punk7 3.3. Compare between UK and China9 4. Motivation and core values11 5. Conclusion15 6.Bibliography16 1. Introduction In fact, for most British people, Dr. Martens need no introduction since the brand has already become a British icon. Dr. Martens is known as a British footwear brand; however, they also make other ranges of products like clothes, bags and shoes protection. The air-cushion sole and yellow stitching is famous features of Dr. Martens shoes. (Employment Wikipedia, 2012) For so many years, Dr. Martens has linked with youth subculture, Brit-pop and rock music. Thus, Dr. Martens is no longer a fashion brand. It has become an essential element in the different lifestyle. This report will divide into two main parts. First is the discussion about the subculture involved with Dr. Martens in UK and China and compare the marketing activities in those two countries. Second part will tend to find out the motivation and core value of UK customers toward Dr. Martens, then tries to in depth to understand its influence on the marketing activities of Dr. Martens. In order to narrow the scope of this report, the analyze of the first part will focus on China market, and the second part will focus on UK market Origin of Dr. Martens (Streething, 2012) 2. History...
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...CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Rock Music in the Philippines is performance arts composed in various genre and styles. The rock music of the Philippines is a mixture of indigenous foreign countries. The United States occupied the Islands in 1898 until 1946, and introduced American blues folk music, Rock &Blues, and rock and roll became popular. In the late 1950s, native performers adapted Tagalog lyrics for North American rock and roll music, resulting in the seminal origins of Philippine rock. The most notable achievement in Philippine rock of the 1960s was the hit song "Killer Joe," which propelled the group "Rocky Fellers" which reached number sixteen on the American radio charts. Up until the 1970s, popular rock musicians began writing and producing in English. In the early 1970s, rock music began to be written using local languages, with bands like the Juan Dela Cruz Band being among the first popular bands to do so. Mixing tagalog, and English lyrics. Background of the Study Joseph William Feliciano Smith born on December 25, 1947 is a Filipino singer-songwriter, drummer, and guitarist. More commonly known alternately as Joey Smith or Pepe Smith, he is an icon of original Filipino rock music or "Pinoy Rock". His father, Edgar William Smith, was a United States Airforce, and his mother, Conchita Feliciano, was from Angeles, Pampanga, where the huge Clark Air Force base was located. Joey spent his first years in Angeles, often visiting...
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...The Chinese Music Industry’s Plight and Future At first thought, some people, including myself, would not include the music industry as part of the grand macroeconomic development blueprint. Yet music not only represents an essential part of our modern lifestyle, but also exists as a key stimulus to economic growth. Nevertheless, following the advent of the internet, rampant piracy and lack of copyright protection led the Chinese music industry into the darkest period it has ever seen. Song Ke, one of the China’s most prominent music industry gurus, has been pressured to open two Peking duck restaurants to have sustainable income. Thousands of musicians have been forced to reevaluate their lives and decide whether they would like to continue the hard labor providing free soul food for the hungry yet ungrateful people. While the Chinese music industry now faces stagnate development, unable to overcome problems such as copyright violations, lack of centralized control and coordination, through surveying and analyzing the anatomy of the problems and possible solutions, we will ultimately see why the Chinese music industry is likely to change for the better in the near future. This is important because China is undergoing the vital transition from an export-led growth model to a consumer based economy and the music industry can serve as an economic force to stimulate endogenous private consumption. Before the end of the Cultural Revolution, music in China was limited to Chinese...
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...Cultural Diplomacy through Music ‘‘Who writes the Nation’s songs shapes the Nation’s souls,’’ said Abraham Lincoln. This quote is relevant to today’s crisis: the influence of music on our youth. Music has been known to influence those who listen since the end of the Industrial Revolution, when people had more leisure time and the demand for entertainment and amusement began to increase. This is significant because media has a powerful influence on society and affects how we dress, act, and think. In The Republic by Plato, Socrates argues against Thrasymachus’ idea that "Obedience to the interest of the stronger" will lead to a successful tyranny. Socrates believes that "justice is the excellence of the soul,” and that benevolence is the key to a successful state. Yet humans embody not only Apollo, the god of the sun, of dreams, and of reason but also, Dionysus, the god of wine, ecstasy and intoxication, both sons of Zeus. In Plutarch’s Moralia, it is suggested that the state allows society to live for their pleasure so that the state gains the power to control them. We are fighting a constant battle between the rational principle of the soul and the irrational or appetite. The state is determined to keep feeding the Dionysus in each of us in order to continue to control us. The music industry is a tool that is used to influence the youth to indulge in their desires through songs about violence, sex, misogyny and drug use. In the Socratic dialogue in The Republic, Adeimantus...
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...Windsor MTV, originally Music Television, is an entertainment and music based television channel owned by Viacom. In each region MTV is in it aims to target the youth, specifically teenagers, via specifically created shows to appeal to the specific region they are in. MTV currently broadcasts in more than 170 countries and in 32 languages. There are 136 distinct MTV channels and 230 different web sites. This allows MTV to target each region specifically and develop different programming for each region, as what the youth enjoys varies greatly by region. MTV first launched in 1981 as a basic cable channel dedicated to music in the United States of America. The original target market was young adults, specifically those aged 15-34 as this would allow them to target at least one quarter of Americans. The channel was hosted by VJs, or video jockeys. MTV began to expand outside of the US market by entering the European market in 1987. They then began to expand even further around the world, specifically the Asia Pacific region, focusing on India and Pakistan. MTV India was launched in 1996. Launch of MTV India MTV India had a first mover’s advantage in India as it arrived before any of its competition. However, they first made the mistake of simply coming to India as MTV, with no changes to their model or programming. They quickly figured out they would have to develop new programming for this new region as Indian teenagers did not have the same taste in music as American teenagers...
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...Information Technology Education In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for “Speech Communication” By: Baquiran, Gerome Nicole Isiderio, Jennica Ann Manato, April Rose Mariano, Allen Victor Morante, Irish Cecille Lusuriaga, Rosalia Olivar, Melbhen Uadan, Shiela Pandongan, Jeasabel Sumile, Pacifico Sta. Maria, Ingersoll BBTE-IT 2-1 Introduction A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. (Chinese Proverb) We have decided to write this thesis about the Beatles. We want to demonstrate how the Beatles can help with teaching listening. They were and still are the most influential pop music group in the world. We realized that students are not very interested in listening topics that are in pupils’ students’ books. Listening in English can be difficult for a lot of young learners and also adults. For this reason we have chosen the Beatles to help students with listening. Their songs are easy to understand and provide a wide range of topics suitable for high school learners. Firstly, the aim of our thesis is to introduce the basic principles of teaching listening. Secondly, there would be a practical part using the Beatles lyrics as well as activities connected with listening and the Beatles. It will present a survey that we did with the students and three lesson plans based on it. Since the whole practical part...
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...Marketing violence to youth MARKETING VIOLENCE TO YOUTH Table of Contents I. Introduction--------------------------------------- 3 II. Violent Movies----------------------------------- 4 III. Brutal Television--------------------------------- 5-6 IV. Vicious Video Games--------------------------- 7-8 V. Sadistic Music------------------------------------ 8-9 VI. Intense Internet----------------------------------- 9-10 VII. Conclusion---------------------------------------- 10 VIII. References---------------------------------------- 11 ii INTRODUCTION In the 21st century, youth seem to be overwhelmed by mass media. Everywhere that youth turn, there are magazines, movies, music, television, video games, and internet websites used to constantly promote and market violence. There is a distinct difference between the way that today’s youth are confronted with media, than what their parents or even their grandparents faced. Most children no longer go outside to play after finishing their homework, or take a walk to the local library to check out a book. To today’s youth, this type of entertainment is almost extinct. Instead, youth attention and time is grasped by some form of digital communication technology, such as an iPods, television, the internet, and video games. Marketing, advertising, and branding companies have spent thousands of hours and millions of dollars to target and capture and keep the interest and wallets of youth. ...
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...Occupations Music and Meaning on the Factory Floor Marek Korczynski Work and Occupations 2007 34: 253 DOI: 10.1177/0730888407303944 The online version of this article can be found at: http://wox.sagepub.com/content/34/3/253 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Work and Occupations can be found at: Email Alerts: http://wox.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://wox.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://wox.sagepub.com/content/34/3/253.refs.html >> Version of Record - Jul 23, 2007 What is This? Downloaded from wox.sagepub.com at University of Nottingham on March 2, 2014 Music and Meaning on the Factory Floor Work and Occupations Volume 34 Number 3 August 2007 253-289 © 2007 Sage Publications 10.1177/0730888407303944 http://wox.sagepub.com hosted at http://online.sagepub.com Marek Korczynski Loughborough University Business School This article examines an unexplored topic within industrial sociology—the terrain of music for meaning making on the factory floor. The article is based on ethnographic research undertaken in a blinds factory. Although contemporary popular music appears to speak only rarely to the arena of work, this article shows that workers reappropriated music to articulate their experience of working in the factory. Many workers independently created meaning systems through music, which displayed...
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