Essays on Rap

Music is the binding structure for the society as it mimics the standard beliefs of people. A community fond of listening to a certain music is likely to emulate the values portrayed by the lyricist. It is right to say that the creators of music play a fundamental role in instilling virtues and also vices to the society as a whole. Celebrities are universally recognized due to their works of art that they produce. Claiming that they have no influence is misguided and totally wrong. I believe that music has a significant role in escalating violence in individual towns ...

20 January 20 2017

Part #1 – Section from article, “Hip-Hop and Procedural Justice ” Several studies have examined hip-hop for its effect on the behavior of juveniles. These studies found correlations between hip-hop music and youth acceptance of violence (Johnson et al., 1995; Johnson, Jackson, & Gatto, 1995), juvenile deviance (Miranda & Claes, 2004), and negative gender stereotypes (Bogt et al., 2010; Johnson et al., 1995). Each of these examinations found rap music or videos were associated with increased commission and acceptance of these behaviors. For example, Johnson, Jackson, and Gatto (1995) conducted a quasi-experimental study on a non-random sample of 46 ...

Introduction

Even if music can be viewed as a universal language, music still differs from society to society largely due to the culture in which that specific music is associated in. In other words, every separate human society has their more or less unique variant of music, which contributes to the characteristic of their culture in general. For example, Latin Americans are commonly associated with Latino music, the hip-hop genre and the blues was commonly credited to the black culture, among others. One particular popular music of interest is the one that came from the Caribbean Islands, particularly the island ...

The popular perception that rap music is an expression of the African Americans’ struggle for social equality seems to have some basis. This is especially true when considering that rap music originates, or at least become popularized, by Black artists who have expressed their racial sentiments through songs that have become expressions of their racial opinions, such as those concerning bigotry. Such is the case in the popularity of Tupac Shakur and the rap group, Public Enemy, specifically on how the Black Americans are able to relate to their songs’ themes on racial bias suffered by Blacks under a ...

Hip-hop is a music genre popular among the youth and teenagers around the world. The genre has experienced significant changes from its inception to what it is currently. Besides, rock music, Hip-hop advocates lifestyles that are louder and daring than the modest or ordinary lifestyles. Additionally,Dalton (77) shows that the genre also has influenced how its fans relate and identify with each other, advocates the use of slang language. the Hip-Hop music is characterized by turntablism also known as Disk Jockeying, rapping, graffiti, dances such as the famous breakdance. The genre was started in the 1970’s in ...

Question 7 by Milon (in Durand)

Comment both sides of the debate art vs. dirt/pollution concerning graffiti and tagging. Do tags belong to the tradition of mural painting? Defend your own opinion. The answer to this question depends on perspective. If the view of the person is a limited view, and does not sense the needs or pain of others, that person will see that the tag as an offense, mere graffiti, which is considered from that viewpoint to be a part of a problem that has to do with people breaking the law. However, a less limited viewpoint would realize and see that graffiti ...

PART 1 – IDENTIFICATIONS (25 pts)

Define and explain in 2-4 sentences the importance for hip-hop culture of FIVE of the following identifications: Hip-hop music has its origins in the 1970s from South Bronx. Over the years, it has grown into rap music and even further to hip hop culture. Hip hop culture all over the world has incorporated various aspects in the society like technology, fashion, racism, art, and urban life among others. Multiple identifications in hip hop play a vital role in its culture. For example, sampling is the use of a song portion in another song either as a sound recording or ...

29.07.2016

1) 1. French Hip-Hop genre is famous for several names of people, who have made a large contribution to the development of hip-hop culture in France: Dee Nasty, Phil Barney, Bernard Zekri, Jean Karaks, and Sidney. Dee Nasty is a DJ Radio Nova’s producer and a pioneer of Hip-Hop genre in France. He has produced the first Hip Hop record in France in 1980s and soon became world-known. He took part in many DMC World DJ Championships. Dee Nasty is also known for the distribution and development of graffiti, break dance, and funk music in French culture. ...

Popular music tends to be a very generational thing. The parent’s favorite groups often sound old fashioned to the child—and the parent can’t understand what the child sees in their favorite music, which in the parent’s mind is nowhere near the quality of what he listened to as a child. It is the rare piece of popular music that has the staying power to still be relevant decades after its release, something that’s especially true now when there are so many different styles of popular music in the world. But while this may mean ...

The musical Hamilton has been critically acclaimed by critics and fans alike. The work tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the most important people in the early history of the United States. However, what makes this musical truly unique is Lin-Manuel Miranda, the star, writer, and composer incorporates modern hip-hop music style into the musical genre, something that had not been done as successfully. Rather than just classical musical numbers or dialogue, this production uses rap and lyrical composition very effectively. Hamilton employs hip-hop music throughout because it is able to bring in groups that do not ...

The theater experience is primarily a collaboration of fine arts that include the contribution of live performances and typical actors in a bid to present an experience of an event that is either real or from an artistic point of view. The performance is usually given to a live audience in a particular place, mostly a stage. The main aim is to make a particular scenario look real and evoke various emotions and attention from the audience. The performance makes this experience possible through a combination of music, dances, gestures and speech. They also include different elements of art ...

Are Pit Bulls A Threat or Family Friendly

Dogs are often times called man’s best friends as they tend to get along well with humans. They can be very gently and friendly as well as loving and caring. Other times the same species can attack, create mishaps and reek havoc in a person’s life. Pit Bulls are descendants of the Bull dog or Bull Terrier. Over a hundred years ago they were known to work on farms and help with herding bulls but they still had a gentleness about them. They were later on used in the homes to comfort children as they are known ...

Music has over the years been a part of politics. Many people use music to express their emotions. Therefore, music since the colonial era was used by many groups of people to champion for their rights and freedoms. Although music has always been a tool for democratic movements, it is not clear how the general public relates the music on the political level. Music depending on the themes explored often expresses the feelings of the songwriters. Songs have been used over years to display patriotism amongst countrymen. This is displayed in the campaign songs during political rallies and the ...

The world has been awoken to the realization that there is a possibility that dominant cultures are getting fused together with the subordinate ones and that there is emerging a significant shift that is best described as the politics of difference. In the article What Is This “Black” in Black Popular Culture? Stuart Hall seeks to show how Black forms of popular culture have been seamlessly fused into mainstream culture and have been incorporated into the dominant Western or European culture. What that means is that there is a new spurt of intellectual consciousness that have included new conceptions ...

American hip-hop music has achieved its global popularity over decades. It gives young people a lot of acoustic and visual pleasure as a music genre, but it also shows public issues, like poverty, race, human equality, etc. Young people are often attracted to this kind of music because those lyrics reflect their own living situations and mental states. Because of its provocative nature, the influence of American hip-hop music can be a double-edged sword: On the one hand, it can encourage people to participate in social movements; On the other hand, it can be used as a propaganda that ...

Introduction

Aesthetic music is important in providing listeners with the unique experience that makes them enjoy the rhythm and harmonization of songs. Many people are interested in listening to music that has the ability to present the beauty and human enjoyment desired by fans (Bowman 2). Music needs to fulfil emotional needs of listeners and create the aesthetic valuation in terms of tone, tempos, the taste and judgement (Davis 61). The fact that music has the ability to affect emotions and intellectual capacity of the society means that artists ought to compose and perform songs that offer unique exposure while ...

Rap has entered the history of American art over a century ago. The people who have laid the foundations for rap as we know it today were the two big ethnical groups of the American society: African Americans and people from the Caribbean Islands. Folk artists of the mentioned origins were telling rhymed stories with the accompaniment of rhythmic music (drums and sparse instrumentation). This music already existed years before hip-hop was developed and became popular. Rapping is actually reading or chanting of rhythmic lyrics that were designed to set a beat. Many specialists are of the opinion that ...

The Music industry is ever full of juicy dramas. Friends and partners alike are turning foes day after day in what is majorly caused by a strong feeling of betrayal. It is normal to hear of conflicts between two or more rappers in the music industry as each musician is always looking for a top selling point to gain niche popularity. However, it always turns so unprofessional when two collaborating rappers are engrossed in a conflict of a song they were to release together. Gucci mane and Young Jeezey once found themselves in this kind of conflit in 2005 ...

Shakira

Sometimes we stop in front of difficulties and obstacles. Sometimes it seems that all things are lost and everything is against us. At this moment there comes a tipping moment when you need to gather your strength and go forward for your dream. Look around you! We will never see a society in which everybody is happy and satisfied. It is, in fact, a mythical representation, especially under the blows of fate. We can improve out lives every day and every moment. We shoud not give up, if we want to succeed. Let us see what the failures were ...

In our paper, we will try to understand and find a correspondence between such concepts as rap and classic poetry. In our article, we hold a point of view, according to which rap is still modern poetry. In any poetry, we find the good and bad, but got used to calling all this stuff the poetry. So there is the same division into good and bad rap. The main “Chief of Justice”, that is, the factor separating rap and poetry into good and bad is time. Until our times, there have been a lot of poems, true masterpieces of ...

Women have been in the music industry for decades as singers. When the rap era became popular it was not long before women were joining in on the rap style. These women were mostly of African American race and opened up a new music genre for the listeners across the globe. A female rap duo had made a huge hit in the late 1980’s. The two women called themselves Salt-N-Pepa. The had hit after hit on the billboard charts and rapped about songs that may have been controversially explicit in that era of music. They two women had ...

The movie Straight Outta Compton was released in 2015. The movie is based on the life and struggles of hip-hop and rap music in the town of Compton. The movies portrayed how the music industry changed because of the rappers who made the music a sensation. The stories the rappers such as Dr. Dre and Eazy-E had created were lyrics of truth. The controversies that were brought forth regarding the lyrics that were being recorded caused an outrage in society. The trials and tribulations that had to be overcome for these rising stars to beat all odds and finish ...

Introduction

Despite the talk about ‘globalization’ that has increasingly been picking up momentum since the latter parts of the last century, there are significant differences between different societies throughout the world (O'Connor, 2004). Social class, cultural identity, religious beliefs, childbearing, and parenting, just to name but a few work differently in different parts of the world (Hiebert, 2002). From the Natives in North America, the Taiwanese in the Far South East Asia, Latinos in the Caribbean, and the Ashanti and the Zulu in Africa, to the Aboriginals in New Zealand and Australia, people’s ways of life are just so ...

During many years, music has changed societies around the world. Each era experiences a pattern of music that incredibly motivates that particular period on what to wear, the proper behavior, and what to say. Music is something that everybody can associate with and as it keeps on developing, so will society. There is one kind that has ceaselessly mixed up discussion and started numerous verbal confrontations with respect to the bearing it is taking its audience members. One and only type has had the initiative to take a stand in opposition to the administration all the time. One and ...

Aerosmith is one of the most popular and long-lasting American rock acts still around today. Some contend that it is the all-time best-selling rock band from America. The first true conformation of the band was established in 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts, and they were signed by Columbia records the year after. In 1973 they released their first studio album titled Aerosmith, and this was followed by Get Your Wings the year after. Nevertheless, it was only in 1975 when they became truly popular with the album Toys in the Attic. The year after, they released Rocks, which was also ...

Hip-hop music also known as rap music has been around since the 1970’s. The United States had heard the music which focused on rhyming while speaking the words. This type of music generally consisted of dance beat music and words of lifestyle. This new style of music had formed its own culture and category in the music industry. Many rappers and hip-hop artists were from an African American heritage. There were several techniques that were born because of the era of hip-hop. The music had created DJ’s scratching records to make different sounds while the artists performed ...

In an article about hip hop music and its intersection with jazz, Jared Pauley writes that both genres have often flirted with each other. Over the years, hip hop artists have utilized the flavor of jazz music through sampling. In the 1980s to the mid-1990s, hip hop acts "took jazz samples to the top of the charts while others worked directly with respected jazz musicians. With the new millennium, this trend continued" (1). One artist that has continued the trend is Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar is an emcee that has been on the scene for a number of years, ...

Music has a key role in speech and communication since it may be used as a way to pass information to a group of people that may not be understood by some others. Rap is one of the most used genres in giving information to a set of people mostly the teenagers. The young generation is a group that is mostly attracted to rap music; hence, the artists use it to pass information to the teens that the older people may not fully understand. The songs influence the way the teens communicate because they bring new vocabularies and understanding. ...

Producer, rapper, musician, designer – all these are different shades of one person, whose name is Kanye West. We believe that the contribution of Mr. West to the African American Renaissance culture cannot be overestimated as he completely changed the approach to making the hip-hop music and made the audience of people, who listen to hip-hop, far wider thanks to the diversity of the sounding in his songs. Also, he looked at the new role of African Americans in society and their image, showing that African American rappers are not gangsters from the hood with the Uzi in their bosom ...

Introduction

The history of Islam and Christianity in the context of the western people is based how the West collaborated with the Islamic countries in the Middle East or the conflict that arises between the West and the Western people. During these terrorist attacks, most people and most fingers are often pointed towards the Muslim individuals with a claim that they orchestrate the terrorist attacks on the western land. Such kind of conclusions do not just arise from nowhere but are rather a series of occurrences which cause such kind of utterances from the western people. For instance, when nineteen ...

Speech on Childhood Dreams

Speech on Childhood Dreams

Assignment

I would rap, would tap! I would cook, it would be a hook!

Central Idea: As I was growing up, I wanted to a rapper as I was mad about music and songs; I imagined myself to be this famous rap artist who is lauded all over the world. I also wanted to be a chef. I love food and I would imagine cooking great cuisines and being famous for that.

Introduction

Attention Getter: Eminem and Akon were everywhere in the house as their recordings were my most important thing in life apart from tasty food! ...

The Court of Appeals should reverse the district court’s decision, and grant to Ms. Eriksen a motion for preliminary injunction, because Ms. Eriksen engaged in constitutionally protected free speech. This case encompasses the violation of First Amendment rights and this court ought to “conduct an independent examination of the record as a whole, without deference to the trial court.” Bery v. City of N.Y., 97 F.3d 689, 691 (2d Cir. 1996). For the First Amendment issues, the appellate courts must make an independent inspection of the whole record in order to ensure that lower court decisions do not ...

Music has become the most prominent form of communication throughout history. It can be used to express emotions, change a person’s attitude, and even offer clarity on difficult situations. Many musicians use this knowledge to help promote their agenda, whether it is a political movement or a change that society needs to make. In the past, music was used to test the restraints that society had on its citizens. Music was breaking out of its conformed mold and transforming itself as well as the people who listened to it. Many people readily accepted this newfound change that was ...

Recently, I had a marvellous opportunity to take part in a dance class at Westlake Dance Center and this experience has left me with the overwhelmingly positive impression. I was truly fascinated that hip-hop nicely embraces the preservation of cultural values and offers the room for artistic development. After participating in this hip-hop dance class, I have become familiar with unique ethno-cultural layer of this dance that is reflected in a range of dynamic movements. Traditional hip-hop culture has a tendency to be rapidly developing. When it comes to its uniqueness, it is worth emphasizing the language of the ...

Each and every period of the history has its own significant features that may define even the whole era. For example, the Medieval Ages are significant in terms of their religious strictness of rules and norms of behavior. Also, it is well-known for the wars and murders, committed on the religious ground. The 20ies of the XX century are famous for their absolutely different from the previous time period fashion, for their freedom and of course, for the mafia. As we may notice, it does not matter whether it is the era, the century, the decade or even one ...

Essay 1. Media ownership in America has been growing smaller because the market has grown in concentration, with a few oligopolies controlling most of the market share. There are at least three different forms of ownership that are realized by this concentration including chains, broadcasting networks, and media conglomerates. A company which owns several newspapers is a chain. Gannett Company is one of the largest chains in the United States today, owning over 80 newspapers (Blagi 47). Broadcast networks are radio and or television stations that offered scheduled programming. The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) currently regulates broadcast network ownership ...

I believe there should be no breed specific legislation banning pit bulls in the United States. There does not exist a pit bull problem in America, but rather a human problem. For many years, pit bulls were iconic to the American landscape and were not perceived as a threat, but instead a loyal family pet. What changed? In the mid 1980’s there was a resurgence of the “sport” of dog fighting. The top dogs of choice for these fights were pit bulls. (Bastian) Pit bulls were probably chosen for a number of reasons. First, pit bulls are powerfully ...

Article Reviews

Article Reviews

Article 1

As the author rightly claims that many literary scholars do not take hip-hop and his texts as an important chapter in modern poetry. However, rap lyrics, though being quite provocative, often represent significant social issues and problems, which in real life remain uncorrected and disturb many people. Knowing this, there were many attempts to create a book about the features of the hip-hop language. One of the most revealing and successful one is Jay-Z`s "Decoded". He says that people need to understand that there are several layers of meaning in the rap texts. The first, of ...

Recently I had a brilliant opportunity to finally evaluate the work of the famous group in a single concert at one of the stadiums in Texas with thousands of people on the tribunes. I was tremendously happy to watch every minute of the live performance of this band. Linkin Park, in fact, is a legendary music band, which songs I was listening to for thousands of time once I was a kid. And even after this, I listened to the concert as if I was listening to their songs for the first time. In today's world, it is not ...

Hip-Hop is considered to be of the largest and the most popular cultures in the whole world. It took its roots in the 70s and had undergone a long way before gaining its popularity and becoming one of the most influential cultures. Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash are known as the founding fathers of hip-hop music. Their talent and dedication to what they were doing definitely brought hip-hop on a new level. All in all, it is essential to learn their history in order to understand the process of the development of hip-hop culture. Surprisingly, but it ...

Introduction

Sociology is a social science that seeks to create the impetus for the utilization of objective standards and views for the review and analysis of concepts and ideas. This include the use of empirically proven methods and theories to examine and critique ideas and pointers. Several approaches and methods are used for the evaluation and analysis of different cultures. The purpose of this paper is to utilize the etic (outsider’s) and emic (insider’s) approach of cultural analysis to evaluate the African-American subculture of the United States of America.

Emic Perspective of the African-American Culture

The emic perspective is to provide an insider’s ...

It is with no doubt that most white people enjoy black culture. They enjoy Hip Hop, which is predominantly an African-American genre. They also enjoy African-American cuisine and fashion. The nagging question is, do white people love the African-American population? If they do love them, why not partake in advocating against vices that are committed towards the African American population? Why wouldn’t they unite with the African-American population and chant “Black Lives Matter” This essay, therefore, sets out to answer the question “What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we love black ...

Music is seen to be part of our everyday lives. I listen to music to pass time and sometimes because of the message the artist is trying to pass. Generally, music has positive and beneficial effects in my life. Hip hop music is my favorite style of music and is also commonly referred to as rap. Many people view hip-hop as a sub-genre of R n B. this style of music is divided into new-school and old—school. Old school hip hop entails the earliest recordings from 1970’s and early 1980’s. Later in the decade, different styles ...

Introduction

Hip-hop culture has proliferated to the extent that today, one may speak of it as a modern-day cultural phenomenon. Hip-hop emerged from the Bronx ghetto and found its way up to white suburbia in the United States as well as Europe over a period of the last thirty years. Hip-hop has had a socio-cultural impact that is so intense that it has affected youth culture all over the world, especially in the manner of speaking, values, dress codes, etc. Since it was birthed in 1974, it has evolved tremendously. Sociologically, the expressive ways of African Americans, Latinos and Caribbean-Americans has spread to ...

Music plays a vital role in the lives of young adults and children in the society. The presence of music is everywhere and is easily accessible through the new technologies allowing diverse listeners. The use of new electronic media permits the children access music that often the parent is unaware. The young adults listen to explicit content and as a result are hooked on drugs and acts of violence. The music that the students listen to is in tandem with their behavior in the society. According to research, popular music has the exposure of violence and sexual messages that has the ...

“Control” is a song by rap artist Big Sean, which is the stage name of rapper Sean Michael Anderson. The song lyrically develops a story of us versus them in terms of black Americans living in Detroit, the city where Big Sean grew up. The song showcases a common practice in hip hop music today—other artists collaborating with each other on their music. The song features Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica. The song is important of new rap music from a cultural standpoint in how it portrays the new scene, belongs to the old tradition, and paints the picture of what ...

The essay is about hip hop music and its impact on society is very interesting in terms of its insights. The essay clearly documents the effects of hip home musing especially on the young generation from a seemingly unbiased point of view. The writer of the essay also seems to be very knowledgeable as far as hip hop music is concerned. This can be deduced from the fact that the writer can give a statement about the effects of hip hop music especially on the young listeners of this genre of music and proceed to give examples of not only songs ...

The society, today, is faced with numerous challenges on the effective ways of dealing with the rise in popularity of the hip hop and rap culture, the hardest task being, to draw the line between the negative and positive effects of this culture especially amongst the youth. Abortion in the other hand is an issue that that has polarized the society with opposing sides drawing hard stands on the issue. The debate has been given a new twist in relation to addict mothers and if they should be allowed or even forced, to abort their fetuses. This discourse will explore ...

Celebrities have become important figures in the society today more than in any other time in history. Of these, movie stars and singers are some of the most influential people in the world today. Their actions and words are the standards which millions of youths around the globe live and act by. Lil Wayne is one such celebrity whose rap and hip hop music is a reason for living for millions of his fans around the globe. With increased accessibility to media and internet access, news of the lifestyle of the celebrity reaches his fans in real time. In as ...

As I write this letter, I am full of content because it is yet another beautiful morning and as usual I have woken up early to catch the magnificent site of the sun rising. This always marks the beginning of my every day. Every day I wake up, look at the sun, take a quick shower and get dressed and I am off to school. School is one of the places I enjoy socializing with people. Here one gets the great chance of meeting people from all walks. It is also here where one learns not only academic related things ...

James bought Popcorns in China. Does this imply that these Popcorns came from America? This is not necessary the case. However, a majority of us view America as cultural imperialism. Fundamentally, this implies that emerging nations are acclimatizing to the American way of life. For instance, many nations have acclimatized to the American popular music, American TV Shows like MTV, as well as, American foods like McDonald's. In my opinion, Americans have tried to impose their culture to the whole world, through their items. In other words, Americans have tried to make other nations to adjust to their culture ...

Culture has Influenced the World

How African American Culture has Influence the World Introduction It started as a cultural shock wave during the 1970s after its emergence in the African-American communities in the Bronx, a poverty stricken area in New York during that time. While hip hop culture is now an international phenomenon, it was once a small subculture of the African Americans that manifested a clearer picture of the life conditions, feelings and aspirations of the Black Americans. Most people attributed hip hop to rapping, a genre of music that was once unique to the black American youths, however, rap is only a part of the hip ...

About the Book

Ishmael Beah writes his life experience as an unwilling child soldier in Sierra Leone’s civil war in the account called A Long Way Gone. At the age of 12 years the village Beah called home is attacked but he escapes the violence because he is with a group of his friends elsewhere performing rap music. In the village where they visited for their rap fun they heard about the attack on their village “According to the teachers, the rebels had attacked the mining areas in the afternoon. The sudden outburst of gunfire had caused people to run for their ...

Whitewashing is a term that means to have black culture, such as rap or hip-hop, invaded and taken over by the white population. Today, many black artists are angry that white rappers are becoming famous, acting like they are black while singing and representing a false black cultural heritage. This can diminish the social importance of the messages of popular black artists by making them look like a joke. Whitewashing can have a positive side. White rappers can draw audiences to the genre of rap and black artists, introducing white people to an entire new experience with black culture. However, getting those in ...

General Forum Discussion

In “A Long Way Gone,” Beah writes that a young boy he was forced to become a child soldier and had to deal with violence as well as death. Later in his memoir, Beah writes that he was discharged from his military duties and given to UNICEF for rehabilitation. Violence had become second nature to him, and the rehabilitation process was rather difficult for Beah. However, he was successfully able to be rehabilitated and went to live with his uncle. After his uncle's death, another conflict threatens to send him back to being a soldier again. Beah had chosen exile instead of ...

- Drawing the line between crime and art - Graffiti, the Purest form of Art - What is Street art? Vandalism, Graffiti or Public art - The Culture and Politics of Graffiti Most people would be hesitant to call graffiti an art, because the current law treats anything painted on a wall or any surface, without the owner’s consent, as a form of vandalism. Nonetheless, while some people view graffiti as vandalism, members of the art community view it as an art of strange beauty on doors and walls scarred by spray paint and markers. In ...

I will analyze the song, The 4th Branch by Immortal Technique. I will also give details of the song and background details including the social context and genre in which The 4th Branch was written. I will also explain my reason for choosing the song and its meaning. Further than that, I will also state the ways in which The 4th Branch plays in the social setup of the society (ghetto). Finally, I will give my analysis of The 4th Branch and the role it plays in shaping the political game. The 4th Branch is a symbolic song that ...

Question #1

The early slaves that came into the United States experienced several difficulties at first. They did not have a common language thus making communication among themselves and with their masters very difficult. However with time they came up with ways to communicate and key among them was the ability to sing. When they came to the US as slaves, they brought African melodies, rhythms and instrumental techniques which they would use to compose different songs. Since they lived with the White people, they would get exposed to White people music which they fused with their own melodies to come up ...

MUSIC APPRECIATION

Twentieth century composers were known for the innovativeness, and developed new organizing systems and included sounds like never before never before seen or heard in Western fine art music. Music has grown over time and today, we hear rhythms and blues, psychedelic music to disco and rock, rock and roll, rap, and hip-hop to name a few. Composers like Edwin Outwater, Morton Feldman, Luigi Russolo, and Edgard Varèse have changed the concept of what music is and should be. Melody was a composition that was not overtly preferred by Edwin Outwater. American music composer, Morton Feldman’s orchestra plays ...

THROUGHOUT THE DECADES

Relationship of Music Throughout the Decades Throughout the decades, music has seen a lot of changes. One thing that stayed the same is Rock. It was popular from the 60s all throughout the 2010s (Cox & Warner, 2004). It was the only genre to survive all five decades, and has constantly been reinvented. Many different artists saw their rise and fall throughout the decades; many have also made their comebacks in the 2000s. There are a couple of key artists that have made their name prominent in music history, changing the way people heard music (Cullen, 2001). The important eras were ...