The Evolution of Rap Music All one has to do is simply observe their surroundings to realize the huge impact of rap music on today\'s society. The way people dress, talk, and act have all been influenced by the cultural phenomenon known as rap music. Almost every aspect of American culture has b...

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...

The 1960s were the beginning of the new youth culture. Young people suddenly had power, they wanted to have a say on what was going on at that particular time. The best way to do this was through the music, hence the universal language. Music was used as a way to express emotions about everything, a...

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...

House Music The origins of House music trace back to the 1980's, following a trail that reaches the Atlantic ocean, the Mediterranean dance floors of Ibiza, finds it's way into the backdoors of New York's recording studios, and includes V.I.P. passes to the clubs of Chicago and Londo...

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...

Student: Eugen COZMACourse: Executive MBAUniversity: CETEX IASI - ROMANIAInternational MarketingIndividual PlanIntroductionI am the owner and general manager of a small firm which sells cassettes and Compact Disks recorded with music of various types: clasic, modern (from disco and rock and rol...

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 ...

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....

Rock music is very complex. In fact "It's stylistic scope is to broad to be encompassed by any single definition (Romanowski, p.1)." The nearest definition suggests a kind of music that represents and speaks for the teenage society. This music is characterized by using a heavy beat. In this essay...

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...

Rap music began in the mid 1970's with artists such as Grandmaster Flash, Africa Bambaataa, and Kurtis Blow. According to the encyclopedia based web site infoplease.com " the word rap is derived from a 1960's slang word for conversation. (www.kids.infoplease.com). This extraordinary style of music...

Music is a form of art that allows lyricists to express themselves and through their personal feelings with words. Feelings that result from the loss of a family member to hating the dog for eating a favorite pair of shoes. For whatever the personal feelings may put into a tempo of beats then it i...

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...