Rock music and the word "dangerous" have been known to be used in the same sentence together; is it dangerous because of the lyrics or is it just dangerous to our hearing? Rock music has been around since the fifties, so has the last 40 years created dangerous people causing violence and mayhem or ...

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...

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....

I believe that the two most contradicting genres of music are classical music and rock and roll music. After a long interview with my aunt, I found out that her favorite type of music was classical music because it was a big part of her life. This was the popular music for her at the time because ...

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...

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...

A Piece of the "Pie" Ask anyone what was the defining moment in the rock history of the 1960s was and all you will get is a one word answer: Woodstock. The three day rock festival that defined an era was only one of many music festivals of the '60s. But Woodstock has come to symbolize, "an e...

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 ...

In his article, "I'd sell you suicide': pop music and moral panic in the age of Marilyn Manson," Robert Wright looks to the problems with suicide from past and current hard rock music. There are many concerns that have come up with the current wave of popular music. Suicide and depression are some o...

Because the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech, some opponents of music censorship believe that the courts can force a store to sell albums its management deems objectionable or forbid groups from burning records. The Supreme Court, however, can only step in if someone appeals a government...

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 ...

CENSORSHIP In today's society, all types of music artists are expressing their views, opinions and feelings in their songs about what they see and what they know. This is on of the great things about this country, the freedom to express yourself. It is not fair, nor is it constitutional that music...

Censorship in music has been a major problem plaguing America since the early nineteen forties. It came to a head during the nineteen sixties with the Vietnam War and the hippie movement. During the nineteen seventies and eighties heavy metal and hard rock were getting the taste of the censorship he...

Rock "n" roll is, and will always be, here to stay. The frontier spirit of rock "n" roll is an attitude that is common among American Pioneers and includes style, originality, and a willingness to push the limits. From Elvis to the Beatles and Buddy Holly to The Doors; bands have been astounding us...

How has Rock and Roll Effected the American Economy?Consider, if you will, the life of a teenager living in the 1940's. The Great Depression was finally coming to an end, but the memories of the rough times would scar its sufferers for a lifetime. Caused by a number of serious weaknesses in the ec...

Film has been categorized by genres since it became popular in the early 1900\'s. Even within these categories (comedy, romance, action) genres often overlapped one another. George Melies\' 1902 classic A Trip to the Moon is a timeless piece that mixes science fiction with psychedelic aspects far be...

Freedom of speech is one of the rights our Founding Fathers put into the United States Constitution, so why is the US government trying to enforce music censorship? Society blames current music trends for dysfunctional behaviors among teenagers and demands censorship of music artists\' products, whi...

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...

"We have the opportunity to create a personal jukebox in the house and car." "This is the takeoff point for the music business" ("A Little Net Music", 34). These statements by AOL Chief Executive Stephen M. Case reflect the latest trend in the music industry for the d...

Music Defines DressOften I have found myself people watching for the amusement of everyday life. Not by luck or sheer investigation, I have noticed something that everyone shares in common guys and girls alike, their personal style of clothing in reflection of their choose in music. I am not talki...

\"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 ...

Metallica has not always been the talented group of rock musicians that they are today. It took many years and many albums to bring the band to its current standing as the "kings of rock." Metallica has undergone changes in its lineup and its musical writing style. Comparing and contrasting the 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...

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...

I think that every American citizen will agree with me when I say that freedom of speech is an essential part of democracy. This right encompasses many different areas of American life including but not limited to actual speech, clothing, what we read, what we see on television, and also what we h...