What do most people think of when they hear the words Punk Rock? Some people may think of delinquents sporting dyed hair, leather jackets, and chains. Although this may be true among some punk rock enthusiasts, there is much more to punk music and culture.Punk rock is believed to have originated in ...

What do most people think of when they hear the words Punk Rock? Some people may think of delinquents sporting dyed hair, leather jackets, and chains. Although this may be true among some punk rock enthusiasts, there is much more to punk music and culture. Punk rock is believed to have originated in...

"Sex, drugs, and rock and roll" was the rallying cry for a movement that changed American culture forever. Rock and roll first startled the American scene in the mid-1950's, but no one then could have predicted the remarkable vitality and staying power of this new music. The early t...

The British rock band manager, Malcolm MacLaren, once remarked that rock music remained the only form of culture that youth - those most receptive to radical ideas, who hold the most potential for social action - cared about. For the young, everything flowed through rock'n'roll: fashion, slang, sexu...

\"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 ...

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 ...

"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...

Can You Feel The Beat Thrashing Punk, smooth Reggae, thumping Hip Hop and peaceful Classical music each involve different styles and beats that make each sound unique. Music can either sooth my soul or give me an adrenalin rush that stimulates my body and mind. The beat ...

Growing up, there are many unexplainable feelings and emotions a teenager may face. A good way of dealing with these emotions is to relate to a literary or sports figure that has had success in their life. I would never imagine how Kurt Cobain could embody my adolescence\'s frustration and express ...

Breaking Boundaries with Music "So-called facts are fraud they want us to allege and pledge and bow down to their God lost culture, the culture loss spun our minds and through time ignorance has taken over; we gotta take the power back, bam! Here's the plan, mother fuck'n Uncle Sam; step ...

It's in our homes, our cars, our work and almost every other place we go. It invades our silence, manipulates our thoughts and plays on our emotions. It has been with us almost as long as mans very existence, has survived World Wars, famine, and disease and is constantly changing, while still ...

Music plays an important role in today's culture. Whether you're driving in your car, watching a movie, or are at a sporting event, music is all around you. It pleases your emotions, soothes your soul and takes away all the worries in the world. But it's not just one type of music ...

For our modern day hero we used the singer and songwriter Kurt Cobain from the band Nirvana. This punk Seattle band moved almost mainstream almost overnight. Nirvana caught on fast and changed rock and roll music forever and molded the music of the 90's, alternative. Cobain had an enormous amount...

Music. How has music shaped my identity? To begin with, music plays an important role in shaping one's identity. Without it, one would not be a whole person. Music has helped several people shape their personality and has made them take control of the person they want to become. In the presen...

One of New Zealands most accomplished and definitive rock acts, Deja Voodoo, played an epic half-hour set that touched an unmistakably captivated "bunch of pissed cunts" last night at 'The Venue'. Billed to play Saturday along side The Have, Deja Voodoo changed to Wednesday with...

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...

The Problems With The Music Industry Today It's 1:15 am on Saturday, August Xth, and I lay semi-conscious in North Carolina, being pumped full of shit by the good people at MTV. Total Request Live is on and they're playing the Number One video – Britney Spear's "Lucky.&...

Rock music started in the 1950's with various small bands such as the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, and the Beach Boys. These gurus of modern music drew a larger crowd at each show, eventually leading to the most listened to music in the world.Rock and roll started with rock, it then le...

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...

On Wednesday and Thursday of July 14th and 15th the Music in Multicultrural America class gave presentations on topics of their choosing to illustrate the diversity of music in this country stemming from the cultures of those around the world and the originality of our own music and cultures here in...

In this report the main focus of my interviews was to find out how two people from different age groupings and backgrounds have spent their musical careers throughout the years. Focusing on all kinds of 'Rock' music, I have asked questions and plan to see if the answers given relate s...

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...

"GUNS AND ROSES CONCERT" I went to see Guns and Roses in the fall of 2002, and it was truly an event of sensory overload. I felt inspired by their music in every aspect possible and the level of sound was through the ceiling. Throughout my seventeen years I have seen quite a few concert...

In the heart of downtown Flint, in a strip full of run down old stores, the Flint Local 432, a former run down old store itself now an all ages venue hides away during the day; waiting for the sun to drop to come to life with music. On my first visit to the club, as I stood in line waiting to get in...