Strakhov Professor Brian Torff MU 102: The History and Development of Rock 5/6/15 The Formation and Development of Punk Rock When the word “Punk” is thrown around in conversation it usually is interpreted differently by different people. A general definition of punk rock typically associates it with extremely loud noises, unorthodox fashion style, and often offends the people who hear it. This is not necessarily all true. Yes punk rock is loud and it may offend people, but it does have a purpose and
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1970’s Fashion Americans celebrated the first Earth day in 1970. Earth day is now celebrated on April 22 in the United States. Hippies primarily were the ones who got Earth day passed by the government. Nightclubs of the 1970’s were called discos. Strobe lights and mirror balls reflected the dancers while disk jockeys were playing the 70’s latest hits. In the 1970’s fashion was affected by the Vietnam War, Battle of Civil Rights, and music. The Vietnam War started in the 1960’s and continued on
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intelligently combine a variety of variables that catapult McCaslin to the vanguard of the modern jazz. The opening tune, “Shake Loose” pulses with hypnotic rhythmic chops and feels simultaneously urban and futuristic. With strong influences of pop-rock, jazz, and electronic music, the quartet
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of instruments. For example in 1939 version of Robert Johnson, he a simple guitar that accomiment the melody, very blues music. However, in 1959, since it was the era of rock n roll, they added drums, which created the song to have more rhythm, also they used an electric guitar. Then in the 2006 pieces, the song sound like a rock song, with electric guitar, keyboard, drums and many more instruments. Comparing to this to the 1939
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Accomplishments and Awards Johnny Mathis has received numerous achievements. In 1978, his hit duet “The Last Time I Felt Like This” from the film Same Time, Next Year was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The Grammy Hall of Fame inducted him for three separate recordings—in 1998 for “Chances Are”, in 2002 for “Misty”, and in 2008 for “It’s Not for Me To Say.” In 2003, the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award. He was also awarded
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Everyone has a favorite singer or maybe a favorite genre of music that they may listen to or be interested in. The many genres of music are R&B, classical, jazz, and also pop music. My favorite singer is named Jazmine Marie Sullivan. Jazmine Sullivan is a African-American R&B singer/songwriter. She liked to do a mixture of many kinds of music such as R&B, reggae, and pop. She has a total of 3 wonderful and overpowering albums titled as Fearless, Love Me Back and also Reality Show, all of these albums
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With every generation comes a new genre or change of genre. And with those changes come harsh criticism. New artists have been called everything from insane to just plain wrong. This harsh criticism isn't something new either, in fact is it has existed since even the classical music era with composers as famous as Beethoven. But throughout history, Why is there a repeating trend of artist who do “out there” things? Artists today are doing things that, to the normal person, just seem to be strange
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Amidst all the momentous or major events throughout the 50’s to the late 80’s that created a special moment in history, stands one not well known among our generation. Heavy metal suicide. Heavy metal suicide contains multiple stories of young adult or late teen people who committed suicide supposedly after listening to triggering songs from loud metal artists. The families of these disturbed individuals supposed that the music their children chose to listen to, caused the problems, despite the facts
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It was in the middle of the night. I turned on the TV. The news anchor was worked up about an escaped man from the insane asylum. He was thought to be armed and dangerous. A photo of the man showed on the screen. The escapee looked familiar. I had just seen him walking down the street the other day. Sandra, the neighbor had told me yesterday that a weird looking man came and knocked on her door to ask to use the phone and for a drink of water. He had gotten out just 30 minutes ago. I went to go
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Sam Mizerek Mr. Quici Block 2 October 23, 2015 Kurt Cobain Suicide Conspiracy Theory On April 5th, 1994, Kurt Cobain took a gun to the roof of his mouth in the greenhouse of his Lake Washington home. His body was found three days later. The medical examiner of Cobain’s body, Dr. Nikolas Hartshone, stated, “‘The autopsy has shown that Kurt Cobain died of a gunshot wound to the head, and at this time the wound appears to be self-inflicted.” Or was it? The conspiracy theory revolving around his alleged
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