Australian Popular Music of the 20th Century a mere imitation of American Popular Music of the 20th Century?” Validate your viewpoint by referencing specific music styles, characteristic features of music styles (instrumentation, performance style, rhythm, melody, intervals/scales/blue notes, harmony, texture, and form), bands, vocalists and specific songs. The 20th century has provided music that was the soundtrack for a generation. During this period there was a rise of pop music and its demand
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means that I have been “dressing myself” for around 8 years. However, when taking a step back, it is possible that I never learned how to truly dress myself, and that all this time I have just thought I did. Cool argues that the majority of people go through life like this, with the illusion that they know how to dress themselves, when in reality, they don’t now the first thing about getting dressed. So, now that I am a soon to be sophomore in college I believe
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Winston...All her rebelliousness, her deceit, her folly, her dirty-mindedness - everything has been burned out of her,” (Orwell 326). By betraying Winston, Julia gave The Party exactly what they wanted: total control and the ability to prevent all rebellion. Julia betrayed Winston despite the fact
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Girl interrupted The 1960s was a decade of tumult and change. It was a shift in almost everything, from values, music and norms, from collar-workers to flower-children. Counterculture and hippies were essentially what summed up the rebellion in the 60s. It was a whole new generation of baby-boomers, who came of age as teenagers and adolescents and older generations were against the rejection of traditional values and the new unconventional ways of the baby-boomers, which were strange and scary
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More specifically, Australia's bush music drew its inspiration in Irish music. The Wild Colonial Boy sets a classic example of this influence. In addition to becoming popular in Australia, it also became popular in Ireland. Along the Irish tradition, Australian musicians have been influenced by Aboriginal traditonal music. Waltzing Matilda provides a good illustrationn of the Aboriginal influence on Australian bush music. Waltzing Matilda sings about a tramp sitting under the
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“Today's rock music extols everything from rape, and homosexuality to sadomasochism and bestiality.... Other lyrics glamorize drug and alcohol use, and glorify death and violent rebellion” (Betz, 2004, p. 1). Music is and always has been a major influence on teenagers around the world. Is music today taking it a step too far? According to Smilkstein (1999), violence occurs in 57% of rap and rock videos and sexual intimacy in 75%. Of videos with violence, 81% also contained sexual references
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to spies. Though this is a fictional novel, it is very similar to today’s society. In the novel, we are introduced to Winston Smith, one who is against the Big Brother Party who is keeping Oceania under surveillance perpetually. Winston takes us through his expedition on a life of secrecy. The author of the book is George Orwell. The whole novel is written in third person context and in one continuous present storyline. His writing style is superb as he puts the reader in the shoes of Winston. Every
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Brooklyn College | History of Jazz Music | | | Inemesit Inyang Crump | 4/27/2012 | | In the world we live in today there many different types of music that comes from all types of people, countries and origins. Rock, blues, neo-soul, classical, hip-hop, techno and even heavy metal are just brief descriptions of the many genres of music. One genre of music that is most popularly known worldwide is Jazz. Jazz is one of the most historical forms of music in America, contributing to several
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dominate culture” (McLaughlin and Muncie, 2001, p.296). This idea of a subculture developed from the study of youths in urban settings. In society many music subcultures include, Goths, Punks and Hip Hop, plus many more. The question which has to be considered is whether subcultures are useful when trying to understand the link between youth, music and identity. Most commonly subcultural theories have been observed by two pieces of research, ‘The Chicago School of Sociology’ and ‘The Centre
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War, drugs, rebellion are all characteristics of the 1960s to 1990s . Fashions changed dramatically and technology advanced and became easily adapted to daily lives. Workers and teenagers protested their numerous causes and threatened authority of the U.S government. Wars started and ended and caused whole sectors of the American population to become more conservative while stirring the ire of the liberals who opposed them. 1960s-1990s problems were reflected in the pop-culture and music created then
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