Punk music Punk music and culture have greatly impacted many different aspects of culture, both in its own right and by fundamentally changing the social environment that other western cultures share with it. Despite the wide variety of modern elements of punk, it is generally agreed that the cultu...

What kind of music do you listen too? Jazz, Rock, Rap, Hip-Hop, Gospel, Country? All of these are quite popular here in the United States and THE WORLD. but there is another form of music that you may not know much about that kids our age are dancing too: What is it: TECHNO! Show Previe...

Music The 80's were very important years in music history. Known as the "decade of excess," the 80's brought a more visual experience to music. From fireworks at concerts to MTV, the 80's made sitting next to the radio a thing of the past. Musicians became more into their ...

History of House Music Like it or not, house was first and foremost a direct descendent of disco. House music which has been around now for about thirty years has changed the way people dance to music. House back when it was first introduced was not just a type of music but more like a way...

"Rock n' Roll to Death" From Rock-a-Billy in the 50's, to Rock in the 60's, to Disco in the 70's, to Punk and Glamour in the 80's, no American institution has ever undergone such radical transformation in such a short time. Women's suffrage was not until 1920. Chuck Berry started it; Elvis Presle...

This film represents freedom and inner growth through hitting the road and bonding with peers. For these three queens, the road offers a temporary, yet easy, way out of their everyday lives. Older and wiser Bernadette, middle-aged Mitzi, and young Felicia, ignorant to society outside the city life...

THE BEE GEES The Bee Gees have always display a unique style of elaborte harmony and melodic structure. Despite a career setback due more in part to a perceived disco lifestyle and flavor percipitated by the media than to actual mucical direction, the group persevers, reminding listeners t...

The Civil Rights Movement was everything emotional that fueled the physical. As with every movement there are leaders and with leaders come followers who share the same belief. Martin Luther King Jr. was the most prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement. King was also a very active clergym...

From Gillian's Island to the Real World There are many differences between the generation that grew up in the 1970's and the generation that is growing up now because of influences from music, clothing and television. Many of these changes are just fads but some of them are here to stay...

I would just like to comment on a poll I recently saw on CNN SHOWBIZ tonight. The question asked, \"Which musical genre was the dominate genre of the decade?\" I believe that there were three prominent music genres of the \'90s. Alternative Rock became a way to release anger. Hip Hop music came int...

ss\"Jazz dance is a form of personal expression created and sustained though improvisation...it has certain defining characteristics, including improvisation, isolation, a centrifugal explosion of energy that radiates outward from the hips, and a propulsive rhythm that gives a swinging quality to th...

Tonight I will be speaking about one of the most controversial eras of our time. The 70's. When terms like "Pardy Hardy!" Goin' Cruizin' "Right On!" "ROCK ON!!" and "Shake your Booty" were getting used in everyday conversation. Guys wore their hair long and in afros. Pet rocks were ...

1)Music is the organisation of sounds with some degree of rhythm, melody, and harmony. 2)Popular Music is music produced for and sold to a broad audience. Indian popular music, which is most strongly influenced by Indian folk music is shaped by social, economic, and technological forces. Popular mus...

The 70's is different then anything in the world today. No one knows quite what sprung the free filling people into partying every night. Was it the rock blasting off of balcony in Hate as h Barrie? Was it the people that were the first anti-wariest, or the rebelling against the neat form ...

Shakira Do you know who Shakira is? Well she is a Colombian singer who started singing when she was eight years old. Shakira has worked really hard to persuade her dreams. In this research paper I will tell you everything I figured out about Shakira. I will tell...

Somewhere in Brooklyn in 1943, on December 2nd an extravagant character was born. He would become known as Steve Rubell. Regardless that he was born to a lower-middle class family, Rubell had big dreams and a sense of determination and the ability to bounce back from failure that would help him ac...

Born in the early 1980's, I would have to say that I consider myself to be a member of that magical decade the 80's, or the end of the disco era. The generation of the 80's will be long remembered not only for its music (flamboyant, lively and whimsical) but also for the socioeco...

This is Spinal Tap While attempting to be nothing more than a comical spoof of the music industry, "Spinal Tap" was instead rocketed to cult icon status. The characters in the movie are so fully thought out that almost all rock and roll bands that became popular prior to and half a dec...

Both the novel Emma, by Jane Austen, and the film "Clueless", directed by Amy Heckerling, contain elements of satire, used by their composers to comment on their respective societies. Due to the transformation of context and text type, the content of this satire and the techniques used to ...

I went to El Pollo Inka, on January 14, 2003, in Gardena. When I arrived outside of the Peruvian restaurant, I saw a big fire spit roasting some chickens in the window. Aztec Indian model statues where also displayed behind the window. Walking into the restaurant, I heard the pleasant sound of Hispa...

How and why does Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet update the characters and themes for a modern audienceThe ball scene starts as Romeo Takes an Ecstasy tablet. When Romeo enters the actual ball he goes in with his cousins and he flashes his fake ticket at the bouncer in a very stoned way and the bounc...

Have you ever been to someplace in your life that was just so great you can't forget it? There is always a place like that in everyone's life, and for me it was on a cruise. It's not everyday that someone gets to go on a cruise because they are very expensive, but you if you get a chance, it will ...

Only a minute before, this place was filled with people, and now I am the only one left. Nobody has ever thought that the dance floor is not only a dance floor. It can be a social gathering place, a performance place, and to me, it is a self-revelation place. Dancing exist...

"Fame made me lonely""Julie, there's a new number one!" shouted Kayleigh to her sister."Who is it?" questioned Julie."It's Chris Riley and it's called First Time" rushed Kayleigh, eager to hear thesong.Chris Riley was in his luxury palace, watching the top ten chart on his 78 inchplasma screen telev...