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 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...

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 ...

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...

"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...

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...

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...