Essays on James Brown

Approaching the end of a decade of reckoning, 1968 was a tumultuous year in so many ways, none more so than being the year Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4th. The leader of a Civil Rights Movement that confronted main stream society and its blatant racist accepted behavior, he had given a speech the night before that referenced black people getting to the promised land (Race Riots, 4:14). The next evening the ‘face’ and savior of the Civil Rights Movement was shot and killed. As the news hit the nation riots broke out in over 100 ...

The influence of both The Blues Brothers Band and the 1980 film of the same name have been enormous in musical and cultural ways, and this paper will explore that influence in depth. In a sense the band and the film have different and independent existences, and, therefore, it is hard to separate them and distinguish between the different incarnations of the Band: it is easier to think of The Blues Brothers as a musical and cultural phenomenon: The Blues Brothers continue to be a legend in the history of blues music, as well as the history of Hollywood. There are countless ...

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Different genres of music will have different themes and this will be in reference to the message that the singer intends to pass. The origin of funk music is the United States of America was mostly done by the African-Americans (Curtis, 2006). At some point the theme depicted by some of the singers showed the regeneration of the black race from slavery to fame. For this reason funk music has been listened to and greatly appreciated by members of the black community.

James Brown’s song Say it loud I am Black and I am proud, 1968, is a good ...