Punk Rock College Essays Samples For Students

Introduction

People, as social creatures, tend to unite in groups that have something common: they may have a similar system of values, behavior or lifestyle that is different from the dominant culture to which they belong. In social studies, the word “subculture” refers to a part of a public group that differs from predominant society. This paper is aimed at analyzing subculture of punk, the role of media and style in punk youth subculture. From the perspective of cultural studies, a subculture is associated with a group of people that do not contradict against the values of traditional culture but ...

Abstract

Music indeed is the language of the soul. It touches everyone alike. Still people speculate and think that music is for the young. The following discussion is little thought into why it is not age that determines a person’s liking for music but the feelings the music conveys.
Keywords: Rock n Roll, Rock, Queen, Green Day, genre

Introduction

In this far wide world, even the Gods sand divided amongst men. There are only a few things in this world that are shared amongst every one. Music is one amongst those rare things. Every country or region has its own form ...

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The Elements of Feminist Media and their Relationship to the Movie The Punk Singer

“Tougher and more lethal than any man, more beautifulthan most women, warrior women in thongs fused feminism and femininity in a fantasy reconciliation between the fury of Riot Grrrl and the body politics of Cosmo.” –Douglas, 2010a, p. 78
The above quotation made by Susan J. Douglas highlights the fact that feminism has had to change how it presents itself to the mainstream. The quotation implies that the strong, hard-core feminist is now being required to soften her outside image with her femininity and sexuality. The author made reference to the Riot Grrrl underground movement, ...

History of Fashion

Dick Hebdige’s article “Subculture: The Unnatural Break” poses the matter of the role of subculture in a conventional society. The article indicates that media is presenting subcultures such as punk, as threatening to the traditional societal conventions, to the generally accepted sense of morality, lifestyle or fashion. The arguments that the author uses vary from references to the members of subculture as different individuals that create semantic disorders to conversion and the erasure of the “other” to social norms.
The article depicts how media techniques are used to highlight a subculture as negative to social standards. Hebdige suggests ...

Elvis Presley’s Impact on Popular Music

Elvis Presley 1935 - 1977
Introduction
Music researchers seem to form two extremes in their placement of Elvis Presley in the history of popular music. One extreme pinpoints Elvis Presley as a turning point in the course of popular music and the other regards him as just another musician, one that happened to be in the right place at the right time. The truth probably lies somewhere in between. It is true that Elvis was not the first white musician to authentically perform African American music (Birnbaum, 2013: vii). But it is also true that his undeniable talent, ...