Music can be broken down into hundreds of genres from classical to country, rock to rap, punk to pop, baroque to blues and everything in between. Lyrics and beats have crossed over generations, cultures and continents. What happens when someone tries to put as many different sounds in one place at one time and invites all who can attend? One of the most popular and diverse music festivals in America happens, Lollapalooza. In 2008, four of my best friends and I were fortunate enough to make the
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Music in today’s culture has expanded into many different types of genres. There is jazz, pop, culture swing, gospel, bluegrass classical, contemporary, indie, rock-n-roll, opera, Latino, the list goes on. In the different genres music there are also different sub-genres. For instance in classical music there are different types of classical music, for example the waltz, and also ragtime music. In the Gospel genre there are southern gospel, sacred gospel, contemporary gospel, Christian, hymns, etc…
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Searching for a song that was culturally and personally relevant was a challenge initially. I could have chosen “The Wall” by Pink Floyd or “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday or any number of the songs I found on "100 Songs That Changed History” however, I didn’t want to write about a song or a period of time that I was not attached to. The one song that did jump out to me was “American Idiot” by Green Day. Don't want to be an American idiot Don't want a nation under the new media And can you
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It is playing while you’re driving, you hear it in stores and even in public bathrooms. Music is everywhere that you go. One thing that hasn’t changed is how much people love music. It doesn’t matter what country or generation that you are from, the definition of music is still the same. According to Merriam Webster music is “vocal or instrumental sound (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, body and expression of emotion” and “the science or art of ordering tones or sounds
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What do you think of first when you think of the 1960’s and the 1970’s? Do you first think of the Vietnam War? Or do you think of the start of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther king Jr? To many of the children who grew up during this time, the first thing that would come to their mind would be the music of that generation. For them it wasn’t just music, it was life. To experience a whole new meaning of excitement and take on what was going on during their youth. The music that came out
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Country music was starting from twenty century; it became main voice of lower and middle class people in America that was affected by the original culture . Jimmy Rodgers (1879-1933) was regarded as the father of the country music, who was a singer, composer and guitarist. When he was youth, after won a singing competition, he started traveling shows even his father was brought him home more than once . Then he eventually worked on a railroad like his father before he got tuberculosis, which made
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and roll among American teenagers in the 1950s. Originally serving as a newspaper article in the New York Times, Bracker’s piece fuels a growing moral panic inspired by the television appearances of Elvis Presley and the concerts held by Cleveland disk jockey Freed. In the article, Bracker draws upon sketchy historical evidence and pseudoscience to denigrate the status of rock music and patronise its young listeners. For example, the author draws a parallel between dancing to rock and roll music
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One of my favorite country singers, Tim McGraw, sings a song titled “Back When.” Many of the lyrics presented in the song show us how the meaning of words have changed over time. For instance, in the song he starts out by singing “back when a hoe was a hoe, coke was a coke, and crack’s what you were doing when you were cracking jokes. Back when a screw was a screw” and etc. These are all examples of how words have taken on different meanings or how we interpret them so differently in today’s society
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Contemporary Rhythm & Blues. In the late 1980s, after the end of the disco era contemporary rhythm and blues was born as a fusion of soul, the original rhythm and blues, hip-hop and some elements of jazz. Since the 1920s rhythm and blues has been in the radio waves performed by the Sepia performers but the term was not yet being used during that time. In 1949, Jerry Wexler, a billboard editor, came up with the term “rhythm and blues” and officially that was when the famous Charles Brown topped the
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First time I ever heard of the band was when I was browsing through Soundcloud randomly to make a playlist. “Uppercutter” was the first song I heard from them and after months of only listening to that song, I decided to look up the band, Saintseneca. I found their album “Dark Arc”, played it for hours and instantly loved it. It was the first time I’d ever heard American folk music with a bit of a rock punk twist to it. Many people would call it “hipster” music, since the band isn’t very well known
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