Essays on Good Music

The relationship between music and emotions has long been the subject of philosophical discussion. In this sense, one of the greatest thinkers of all time, Aristotle, believed that music could decidedly and substantially modify a person’s way of being. If one were to listen to bad music for excessive periods of time, one would become a bad person; conversely, if one desired to be good, one would have to listen to the right kind of music. Nevertheless, it is important to critique this in three different ways, as it is a very problematic statement. First, one would have ...

Producer, rapper, musician, designer – all these are different shades of one person, whose name is Kanye West. We believe that the contribution of Mr. West to the African American Renaissance culture cannot be overestimated as he completely changed the approach to making the hip-hop music and made the audience of people, who listen to hip-hop, far wider thanks to the diversity of the sounding in his songs. Also, he looked at the new role of African Americans in society and their image, showing that African American rappers are not gangsters from the hood with the Uzi in their bosom ...

We are surrounded with millions of sounds everyday wherever we are. Crowded markets, car signals, birds singing and so on and so forth. But only some of this sounds are pleasant for us. So we can define the music like some art to mix sounds and rhythms into a certain composition. But that is just a dry, austere definition that does not help one to understand what role music plays in the modern world and what role it used to play before. Philip Alperson (2010) consider music to be the universal language, the language of emotions in one of ...