I believe that the two most contradicting genres of music are classical music and rock and roll music. After a long interview with my aunt, I found out that her favorite type of music was classical music because it was a big part of her life. This was the popular music for her at the time because ...

You're standing on stage playing a song you wrote, "jamming" with your buddies, or just sitting in your room, playing out your emotions and you feel it, a feeling that is so harmonious, relaxing, exciting, and purifying that it can only begin to be explained by the word "awesome....

Popular music at the moment, reaches many of us through the medium of music videos. There are various types of video channels, such as MTV, VH1, The Box, etc. These video channels now have off-shoot (subsidiary) channels such as; MTV2, MTVBase, VH2, etc. These music video channels exhibit specific m...

When teenagers listen to music, does it make them depressed? Does listening to music make them happy? Some people think it does affect them and others do not. Regardless if the person likes music or not it is involved some way in that person's life; whether it's by playing an instrument, listenin...

Imagine if you will a world where rock musicians were no longer the superstars that they are today. Instead of headlining tours, dating models and making millions of dollars musicians would surround themselves in fine art. Through study and a liberal arts education these rock musicians would becom...

The music industry is an industry that is making billions of dollars a year. This is largely due to the impact of pop culture on music. Nowadays there are many different types of media that exemplify pop culture. Pop culture is marketed directly to American youth through the medium of large net...

"It is America's music – born out of a million American negotiations: between having and not having; between happy and sad, country and city; between black and white and men and women; between the Old Africa and the Old Europe – which could only have happened in an entirely new...

How Does Music Inform Our Notions of Gender?Music allows people to express their gender and sexuality in either an advert or a subtle way. The Spice Girls used the phrase 'Girl Power' which could not be less feminist in a 'We are Women, step aside men' way, 'boy Power' doesn't have quite the same ri...

Rock music was decaying in the late 80's. The rock scene was suffering from a repetetive pattern of big hair, flashy clothes, long guitar solos, and lyrics that weren't relating to the listeners. The music industry was begging for something new. This is the beat up state that rock was ...

Name: MiladSurname: RafieiYear/Major: 3rd Year. Film, TV, and Media Studies.Question: Choose one popular music genre and analyze with respect to race, gender OR class. Analysis Of Heavy Metal With Respect To Gender.Heavy Metal music usually include impressive technical feats on the electric guitar,...

How has Rock and Roll Effected the American Economy?Consider, if you will, the life of a teenager living in the 1940's. The Great Depression was finally coming to an end, but the memories of the rough times would scar its sufferers for a lifetime. Caused by a number of serious weaknesses in the ec...

The grandchild of Jewish-Russian immigrants, Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman, on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota where his father, Abe, worked for the Standard Oil Company (Mr. Showbiz 1). Dylan is undoubtedly considered to be one of the most influential figures in the history of popular m...