...of interest? |My general area of interest is music. | | | | | | | |What is it about your general topic of interest that interests |This topic interests me because music has always been a hobby of mine. In| |you? |fact music is more my passion. | | | | |What questions do you have about the topic that you would like to|How many types of music is there? | |investigate? List them. |Are there any genres of music that today’s music resembles? | | |Why is music used in therapy? | | |Where is music most often played? | |Would any of the questions you listed make a good subject for a |Why is music used in therapy? ...
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...When Was Music Born? Who was the first father of music? It seems difficult to answer this question. Probably, because of the human demand for making life colorful and diminishing stress, music was discovered and improved from generation to generation. Moreover, music became a part of our lives, and it has a lot of significant impacts on all of us, including myself. Although I neither have a long playlist in my phone nor do I listen to music all the time, I realize that I take advantage of music a lot. Music helps me to improve my concentration and to develop relationships; however, there is a negative impact for me. Personally, listening to music helps me study efficiently by increasing my focus. According to the left-right brain theory, in the article from pychology.about.com, left brain and right brain handle different tasks. While the left side's function is to engage in academic activities such as critical thinking, numbers, reasoning, and math problems; the right side is considered to be in a resting state involved in emotion, arts, imagination, music, and the creative abilities. When we are paying attention to deal with a specific task, only one part of the brain is working, and the other is resting, which easily leads to distraction. For example, whenever I do my math homework, I usually lose my concentration on it just after five or ten minutes by day dreaming. However, if I listen to music while studying I can concentrate better. In this way, music does fill up 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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...If you're looking for the best sounds of your life enter the planet of Hip-Hop. In my opinion Hip-Hop is the best music you can listen to on this here planet. I love Hip-Hop because the lyrics are good, it's fun to dance too, and it has a good message.One of the main reasons I love Hip-Hop music is that the lyrics are good. Whenever i hear Hip-Hop i always here the lyrics come together and create a message. I am not the only one who feels this way for example James McBride stated in his essay that It is a music that defines definition, yet defines our collective societies in immeasurable ways. Another reason why the lyrics are great is that it inspires me to do something with my life. I find that when I play the music I want to get active and move around, which is great for my health. This reason really confirms why hip hop music is the best thing around....
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...Reasons Why I Don’t Sleep Why don’t I sleep? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself for a while now. I’m sure there are many reasons why, but here are 3 enormous reasons of why I think I don’t sleep at night. I have a lot of bad habits in my life but I think the worst ones I have are before I fall asleep at night. I used to be able to sleep well at night that changed after I started listening to music right before I fell asleep. I think that since I listened to violent music before I went to bed every night it really disrupted my sleep schedule. I remember one night where I was listening to music on my iPod before I went to bed. I had to get really early in the morning, around 4am to go to the gym with my trainer to work out. I remember listening to heavy metal before I tucked in for the night. Little did I know how much it was going to affect my sleep patterns and myself. I finally went to bed around 11 30pm, the whole night I was tossing and turning in my sleep. When I finally woke up around 4am to work out I felt horrible because I didn’t get enough sleep. Listening to music before I go to bed is a really terrible habit that I have and it’s really hard to break. After a while you get used to it and its almost like second nature to listen to music before you fall asleep at night. It can really disrupt how you wake up in the morning as well. I remember one time where I had to wake up early in the morning to go take a test. Since I had been listening to music the whole...
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...director of music division at Boston Conservatory makes a welcome address to freshman parents at Boston Conservatory. The purpose of this speech is to help parents understand the importance of music and why music matters. Most people understand music as a hobby, they see music as a past time that is a “filler” of som sorts. A large majority of parents don’t really understand why their children spend their time and money in a musical department. The truth is that many of these children see music as a necessity of daily life. The impact that you can have on people while making music is an indescribable feeling. Parents don’t feel that passion that their children have when they are performing a piece that makes their...
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...yourself because literacy and music are related, and you decide what music means to you and what kind of music you will listen to. Regardless, whether it is listening or creating music, it inspires people to express and reflect on their emotions. The person I interviewed is a college freshman and creates electronic beats on Soundcloud during his free time. He describes himself as an introvert and a loner (Interviewee 2018). During our interview, we discussed how literacy defined as the ability to learn and understand was related to his creation of music and how it relates to his daily life. Every genre of music ignites a different emotion from the listener. Music is liberating, it is a place where you can find solace in times of need. This is certainly true for...
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...A Concert Review Angela Champ, AA Jazz/Pop History Music 2217, Chicago State University Felton Offard, Intstructor Chicago, Illinois 04/08/2014 It was a cold winter evening in the Bible Belt of Atlanta, Georgia. It was the perfect evening for cuddling as thousands scurried into the Atlanta Civic Center on 395 Piedmont Avenue N.e. on February 15th, 2014 to escape the unusual cold in this part of the country. The ultimate concert lineup…Eric Benet, Mc Lightfoot, El DeBarge and Kem made for the perfect Valentine’s weekend celebration for me and my fiancée Steve. He flew me in to celebrate our very first of many holidays together. We sat in the in the balcony however the view was great as we were able to see all of the performers. However for time sake, I will give a review of Adekemi Owens, known professionally and affectionately to music fans as "Kem”. He is a self-taught musician, R&B/soul singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. Kem talks briefly about his stint with drug abuse and homelessness. After finishing high school, Kem left home when he was 19 and wound up struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. He was homeless for a period of time and bounced around from place to place. He ended up at a downtown Detroit shelter but things got worse and he was eventually sleeping outside on the streets. However, after being tired of going nowhere in life, he decided to make a chamge. He wrote, produced, and financed his self-released debut album...
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...Why do people walk down a busy city street ignoring others and not talking? Why are they ignorant to the homeless asking for change just to survive? And why do cross walk signs become life savers? I can tell you what’s wrong with these people, music. Music works wonders for anyone and everyone. There is no way around music. It is everywhere and playing at all times. From people blasting music with twelve inch subwoofers in their car driving past on the street to the proud parents of a newborn playing Beethoven and Mozart as it lies in its crib, you cannot avoid music. Every day I wake up and listen to music and walk out the door with a smile on my face and a rhythm to sooth my mind. As I am typing this paper I am also listening to music. It has engulfed and made a huge impacted on my life at different periods. At times I would be down and out I will listen to music to cheer me up. There are different types and genres of music. One important Genre is Country music. Country music was one of the most influential styles of music in the twentieth century. It had stars such as Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. These stars represented what the South felt. They understood shotgun weddings, not knowing where the next meal would come from, and fearing the wrath of God while simultaneously loving the sweet and instant satisfaction that sin brings. They took those pains and painted beautiful, harsh, and most importantly real portraits of life. The majority of today’s country music, the country...
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...Assignment (25 points) Objective: To better understand how music reflects personal and social identities of an individual or group. Requirements: Write a 700–1000 word essay (roughly three pages) discussing a particular song or composition that you feel best expresses your personal and social identity. Include a tape or CD (label it with your name) of the example along with your essay. DUE DATE: To be announced _______________________________________________________________________ Music is a manifestation of the personal and social identities of an individual or group. The function of the music, the structure of it, the context in which it is performed, etc., all reflect the cultural environment that surrounds a musical performance and indicate significant values of the people who create it. Recognizing and understanding how music reflects the identity of a community is an important means of “getting to know” other people and how music expresses “who they are.” I want to “get to know you” and discover what music says about “who you are.” As music majors, I assume that you consider music an important element of your life. Undoubtedly, most of you listen to many kinds of music, i.e., classical, rock, rap, gamelan(?). Your task is to choose ONE example of music that you feel best expresses the many facets of YOU, i.e., your identity. This will prove more difficult than you think if you put some thought into it. Don't tell me what music means to you, explain how the example you have chosen...
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...referred as globalization that is believed by many people as the revolution of the future. However, globalization has positive and negative views upon it. These various aspects affect my life in several different ways. First of all, globalization makes the mass media today be an essential part of everyday life. Almost all of us are affected by the media in different forms, whether it is television, radio, films, music, magazines or even the internet. Basically, media has a connection all over the world that is a mass communication technique that entertains, informs and influences people without even realizing it. Personally, I can easily download a video of the performance of a small group on the other side of the planet. Obviously, without globalization, I would never have heard of them, and they would have never had the opportunity to sell me a CD. Also, the acquirement of knowledge from various sources of information on the internet, which helps me positively in the way of study, is evidence showing how globalization brings many benefits to me through the mass media. Secondly, globalization has enriched the employments in my country, which is a developing country. By globalization, millions of jobs are moved, and other jobs are created. In addition, the increasing investment of foreign companies in my country leads to many new solutions for the diversification of...
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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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...Music of my Life! Sheri Webb HU300-15 Music of my Life! My life has been interesting, many good memories associated with music and how it impacted my life. The interesting thing about mine is I can associate music with each good memory in my life. From early childhood to current time I have memories of music that defines the memories of my life. I will explain each era of my life, the music I listened to and how that music impacted it. My childhood memories of music is of sitting on Sunday listening to vinyl records with my dad after church. It was a very special memory of mine because I was really close to my dad. The type of music we listened to was classic Country and Western. We would listen to artists such as Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams Sr., George Jones, Tammy Wynette and Willie Nelson. In the textbook it states,” Country and western music has carried on the narrative tradition of folk music, adding its own unique tales to the repertoire.” (Janaro & Altshuler 2012, page 173) I can remember listening to Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn singing the song, Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man. These songs I listened to with my dad made me happy and I was glad that I could share this time with my dad. My adolescence was an interesting time because I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. I grew up listening to soft rock, disco, rock n roll, hair metal and country music. I listened to many artists such as, Air Supply, KC and the Sunshine Band...
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...establishment of life on earth, human beings have pursued various ways to express themselves. One of these include the mixing of various sounds to create one that pleases them, and most importantly expresses the language of their heart. It is an expression of one's feelings through instrumental and vocal sounds. Music gives a mean to express themselves in a language that is felt by everyone. It represents one's culture, feelings, and even passion for something. Music in my life although started with the feelings aspect to it, was started by the rap artist Lil Wayne’s. His music enabled me to go beyond the horizon and really open my eyes to music and the story that lies beyond the words. Music and life run parallel, music affects my life in many ways. My given mood explains my choice of music. When I was younger I used to listen to a lot of rap and hip-hop music. Don’t get me wrong, I still do today, but I have learned to enjoy other styles of different natures of music. I can remember when I was about thirteen years old and in middle school, I was at a school dance and the DJ played the song “Get Low” by Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz. Once I heard that song I remember suddenly feeling an urge to dance. It was at that moment I started to notice music and the impact it would later have on my life growing up. After that dance I started to listen to music more and more, then I started to really get into watching MTV every day before walking to my bus stop. Music started to become...
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...that make me who I am, from my family's rituals, to how old I am, the food I enjoy, the music I listen to, and the sport I play. We have always been close to my mom's side of the family, from me spending every day with my grandmother since I was born, to having my grandparents over for dinner every Sunday. We also spend every holiday with each other, even if something comes up, we still find a way to see them. My mom's side of the family and I have a tradition of going to their camp in Toledo Bend every Labor Day weekend to fish. These traditions might seem like no big deal to others, however, it...
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