In the realm of the music industry, pop music reigns. It seems as if every week another "pop star" is born, and true music lovers observe these teenage sensations and ask what makes this guy or girl so much different from all the others? This is a question no one can really answer, becau...

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...

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...

Discuss the continuing relevance of Adorno's views on popular music as expressed in 'On Popular Music' with reference to today's popular musicIt's impossible to take away popular music from social conditions and cultural theory. One of the earliest academic writers to consider the importance of pop...

Pop-culture has adopted the apocalypse as one of the many topics it encompasses. The end of the world is a piece of entertainment for the reader, viewer, or listener. But it is far more than just a little entertainment. Almost every piece of entertainment contains a happy ending. Because of pop-cul...

'N Sync "I'm sick and tired of hearin' all these people talk about, what's the deal with this pop life and when is it gonna fade out? The thing you've got to realize what we're doin' is not a trend. We got the gift of melody, we're gonna bring it &ap...

INTRODUCTION War has a great impact on popular culture within a society and in fact, infiltrates every aspect of pop culture including music, television, film, and even video games that children play. This has been highly evidenced during the present ongoing war in Iraq which culminated followin...

\"Punk is a movement that serves to refute social attitudes that have been perpetuated through willful ignorance of human nature,\" at least according to Greg Graffin, a man who has a Ph.D. and is also the lead singer of the punk band Bad Religion. This idea of social change in music is not new, by ...

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....

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 1980s brought a new generation of fads and trends that changed the whole world, and most trends were set by the music industry. People emulated the style their favorite stars put off and were basically following everything a music star would do. This kind of praise for a music star has been goi...

In our society today, people are influenced by many different things. The media uses advertisements and commercials to sell us what "we think we need" in order to fit in. This type of media hype is everywhere; in our magazines, on our television screens, on billboards, and in our music. Ye...

From Elvis Presley to Ozzy Osbourne, different genres of music have been misunderstood and looked down upon throughout time. Lately though, people have become over obsessed with this new brand of pretty, punk style music featuring a bunch of nasal sounding kids from California due to the media's dow...

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 purpose of my project was to determine the different feelings and attitudes towards Contemporary Christian music and traditional church music. Both of these genres have the same general purpose of praising and worshipping the Lord. However, the general audiences and feelings resulting from thi...

The BeatlesInspired by the simple guitar-and-washboard music of Lonnie Doengan and laterby United States pop artists such as Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, and Little Richard, JohnLennon formed his own group, the Quarrymen, known present day as the Beatles. TheBeatles originally started out with five ...

Pop Culture's Logo Have you ever been watching your favorite music video when suddenly a little MTV logo pops into to the corner of the screen? If so you have been a witness to one of the most influential devices of "pop" culture. MTV has influenced and supported pop culture by pro...

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Jimmy Crack Corn; Frankie and Johnny; String of Pearls; Blue Moon; Jingle Bell Rock; and Dirty Pop: none of these songs would be here today without influence from African-American culture. Some people have a hard time listening to "black music," meaning Jazz, B...

The content of music lyrics should be censored because the content has a major influence on people. This is especially true because music lyrics are influencing individuals who are at an age where they are not capable of making informed decisions, but are in the ...

The Generation of Rave Subculture and is the Term "Subculture" Still Relevant for the Genre? The dictionary defines subculture as "A cultural subgroup differentiated by status, ethnic background, residence, religion, or other factors that functionally unify the group and act collec...

Born in Houston in 1938, Kenny Rogers epitomizes American and especially American Country music. His family was poor, and Kenny was born at the tail-end of the Great Depression too. Kenny Rogers symbolizes the American Dream, being the first in his family to graduate from high school. Without any f...

Pop Music as CommunicationALL THAT JAZZImprovisational. Creative. Mischievous. Genius. Exciting. Unique. These are all words used to describe one of the most invigorating, influential and provoking genres of our time, Jazz. Jazz evokes human emotion in an array of different ways more so than ...

During the time of white colonization and Christian missionary work in Zimbabwe, therewas a significant decline in traditional music. Then, in the 1960s, along with emergingZimbabwean nationalism and world-wide recognition of black culture, there was a newrecognition and valuing of tradition...

Music For ChildrenMusic is an important component for all people to posses in their lives. A child should be introduced to music at a very young age. The introduction of every type of music from classical all the way to modern rock is important. This gives a child the ability to form their own opini...

INTRODUCTION Nowadays, Britpop is known merely as a musical genre, represented especially by present-day groups such as Coldplay and Radiohead. However, it was started in the early 1990s and, similarly to most of popular art, it contains a wide range of elements of the culture in which it was born. ...