Essays on Guitar

The article The Early History of the Guitar by Christopher Page in my opinion is an accurate depiction of the role and the rise of the early romantic guitar. The author’s depiction of the magnitude of the effects of the guitar in the early ages is entirely correct. The author says that the guitar is superior to the piano and the violin because of the fact that it covers more musically than the former and it can be learnt faster than the latter (Page, 2014). The guitar is arguably the most relevant musical instrument in the world today. ...

The portrait of “The Guitar" by Federico Garcia Lorca is of a bleak and unfriendly place. Its fares are so awful that even the inanimate are affected—hence, we have weeping guitar. The depression of this instrument is not inexplicable as examples are provided of detached relationships. What is worse is how the tender despair is ignored, and pried at by uncaring fingertips. If it were not for the title, I would not have realised that the poem was, in fact, actually about the guitar. As in, Guitar the main subject, instead of guitar the supporting character. Very soon ...

Rhoma Irama is one of the most acclaimed Indonesian musicians of all time, innovating and exemplifying the best of the Indonesian dangdut style of popular music. After a difficult and intriguing childhood, he became a superstar in Indonesia in the 1970s, dubbing himself Raja Dangdut, which translates to the "King of Dangdut." Rhoma Irama's contribution to the world of Indonesian pop music is immense, and his popularity helped to provide some crossover success in the United States as well. His popularization of dangdut allowed the lower-class of Indonesia and Jakarta to express themselves in a culturally relevant and powerful way, ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is also characteristically honest: "There ...

For our music class, we had to attend a live Jazz concert. There were many several concerts, which we could choose from, both varied from on or off campus. The recommended concert that we chose for this this semester was on Thursday, November 13th in Gusman Concert Hall. We attended a “Jazz Vocal II Ensemble & Jazz Vocal III Ensemble”. The directors for this ensemble were Sherrine Mostin and Eliot Weeks. There were 2 Jazz Vocal Ensembles that consisted of different people playing and supporting during the concert. There is some information regarding these two excellent Ensembles Jazz Vocal III Ensemble ...

Introduction

When we think of blues songs, we relate them to misfortunes, break ups or other bad events. This is because blues is known to have originated from a bad period. Delta blues or Mississippi delta blues is a musical form that emerged in early 20th century in Mississippi. However, this music originates from Africa since slaves were captured from Africa and forced to work in plantations in the South. Slaves used music as a way of escape from the torture and oppression they faced. Slaves would sing to their favorite delta blues as they work in the plantations. Slavery and religion seem ...

Introduction

Washburn is an American guitar producing company with a hundred and twenty three years heritage. They have an annual production average of fifty thousand guitars and a turnover of over forty million dollars.

Question 1

Most employees at Washburn are motivated by their passion for music, their workforce is majorly comprised of individuals who Love music, play music and values the craft and design of each and every guitar. Their promise to customers that they produce the best possible guitar for at the best possible prices keeps them at their toes to produce high quality products. Customer satisfaction is also another factor that ...

1. One of the most important events from the American history that had also an impact in the popular music was the war for the civil rights who was led by Martin Luther King. 2. The second event was Woostock. 3. The perception of black people music change from the earliest style in the nineteen century by getting under its umbrella a large range of musical genres like ragtime, jazz, blues, doo-wop, rock and roll, hip-hop, soul ,dance and techno. 4. The Ed Sullivan Show was an American TV variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan and the ...

- Memphis is the home of the music genre rock n roll. An example to support this is the observation one of the genre pioneers came from the place. He grew up there and requested bar owners to let him in their clubs so that he could listen to their music. - Sam Phillips was behind the sun Records. The studio gave the people a platform to air their view and oppression through the music. The studio did not discriminate and thus was a voice of the minority and civil rights. - A. the musical style of Elvis Presley ...

It`s not really often we can find the band with so diverse and strange music and with so interesting and outstanding history as well. The King Crimson is one of the least that can surely be classified to such kind of bands. Being created on the 30th of November 1968 the band was first rehearsed on the 13th of January 1969 in London with the first band`s line-up: Robert Fripp, who was the guitarist of the band, Greg Lake, the bassist and the vocalist, Michael Giles was the band`s drummer, Ian McDonald, playing the woodwinds ...

An Evening with B.B. King For the purposes of this assignment, I attended a B.B. King concert at the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill. It took place on Tuesday, March 3rd, and featured noted blues musician B.B. King, known by many as King of the Blues. During the concert, he played approximately two hours of blues music, singing and playing guitar primarily while his blues band played around him. During the concert, King played a great deal of his repertoire, including blues classics such as "3 o'Clock Blues," "Woke Up This Morning," "Bad Luck," "Every Day I Have the ...

An Evening with B.B. King

For the purposes of this assignment, I attended An Evening with B.B. King at the Lucky Star Casino Events Center in Concho, Oklahoma. It took place on Friday, Feburary 24 at 8pm, and featured noted blues musician B.B. King, known by many as King of the Blues. During the concert, he played approximately two hours of blues music, singing and playing guitar primarily while his blues band played around him.

During the concert, King played a great deal of his repertoire, including blues classics such as "3 o'Clock Blues," "Woke Up This Morning," "Bad Luck," "Every Day I Have the ...

In life, each day brings us new situations, new conditions, opinions and an array of challenges. Sometimes we end up asking ourselves questions like, what will I do if? And at different stages in our lives, the answer will always be different. As for my life, I also have had my fair share of challenges; some of them had a mysterious way of effortlessly resolving themselves while others required a lot of my time, dedication and a lot of perseverance. In this paper, I will discuss one of my goals that I had set while in high school and the challenges that ...

Jimi Hendrix’s cover of the Bob Dylan folk song, “All Along the Watchtower,” adapts the song from Dylan’s mellow and malicious folk song to an exuberant, angry rock anthem for young people in the late 1960s. Under Jimi’s alterations, the instrumentation turns ominous and aggressive, his exuberant vocals sounding almost pleading. The song contains a limited chord structure and longer-than-usual musical sections, as well as unsettling improvisation and call-and-response from the vocals and guitar (Zak, 2005). The combination of all these musical elements make the listener, especially one who was young in 1968 (when the song was ...

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Techniques used by Pablo Picasso – “The Violin” and “Guitar, Sheet Music and Wine Glass” Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He was an artistic genius who employed several techniques to portray his talent. In the course of his transformation to also being a modern artist, he is famous for co-founding the Cubist movement along with Georges Braque. His works “The Violin” and “Guitar, Sheet Music and Wine Glass” are brilliant examples of this period. Picasso’s “The Violin” (1912), was created using Braques’ method of papiers colles displaying Synthetic Cubism. ...

The life of all the contemporary guitarists that started playing after 1980s was closely connected with the creation of grunge music and the “Nirvana”, in particular, as every guitarist had been learning the “Smells like Teen Spirit” as his first song on guitar during that time. The main goal of this paper is to discuss the genre of the band itself, the other characteristics of the genre that were used by different musicians of the time and after this period; the roots of the genre will be discussed there. The musical style of Nirvana was best described by ...

Section one: Your experience

For this part of the paper, I want you to reflect on your growth as a musician over the course of the semester. Consider some of your goals from the beginning, and consider the following: - How do you feel our method of using free sources worked for you as a learning tool? - Considering our readings and class projects, how do some of your opinions about rock differ from when the semester started. If they haven't changed at all, please elaborate as to why. - Reflecting on your goals for musical growth, how do you or don't you ...

Essay on Pink Floyd’s Meddle

Pink Floyd, one of the most popular and progressive rock music groups in the history of music, achieved its popularity because of the psychedelic musical pieces they created. The characteristics of Pink Floyd music are the meaningful lyrics, experimentation with sound and the wonderful live shows they conducted. Meddle is the sixth album by the group, and released in the year 1971. It gained immense popularity, and is in fact, one of the most popular music albums ever. Etched in the minds of the listeners, Meddle has a quality of experimenting with various sounds and creating a new effect altogether. The ...

Acoustic guitar and drums are heard during the intro. The overall texture of the song is thin because it is the acoustic song. Drums are keeping the tempo during the song. I would say that the tempo of the song is slow. The mood of the song is sad. One of the features that show that is the acoustic instruments. I do like the mood of the song. It is slow and resembles meditative music. The dynamics of the song does not change. It is rather difficult to change the dynamics of the song, because it is acoustic. The ...

1) The idea of suggesting that some acorns, a ribbon and an owl feather could be sacramental may be informed by the fact that sacraments involve signification. St. Augustine believed that sacraments were “signs” of sacred things. This means that sacraments could be visible signs or symbols that represent something else. The squirrel may have perceived an acorn, a ribbon and an owl feather as symbols which represent something else. In this regard, what is represented by the items may be related to their nature or be purely conventional. For example, the acorn may signify life meaning it has some ...

Of all the myriad ways in which the 60s counterculture challenged perceived notions of morality and the status quo, the anti-war song was perhaps its most popular. Given the stakes and devastation of the Vietnam War, which necessitated the draft and angered an increasingly independent and rebellious generation, songwriting and instrumentation increasingly took on these pacifist subtexts. From a Neo-Confucian perspective, the case of Jimi Hendrix’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” defies the Confucian ideal of yayue, combining aggressive instrumentation with its cryptic vocals to create an atmosphere conducive to an anti-war, rebellious morality (consistent ...

Introduction

In the paper below, the similarities and the cultural link between the traditional flamenco music and the Egyptian/ Arabic music has been discussed. Flamenco music is a category of Spanish music and dance, connected with the Andalusia region in southern Spain. It was first mentioned in the literature in 1774. Afterwards, the genre grew out of the Romain and Andalusian music and dance flairs. The flamenco music is most profoundly related to the gitanos i.e. Romani people – Spain. Moreover, the music was first recorded officially in the late eighteenth century, however, it underwent a historic development in late nineteenth century. On ...

On Saturday, October 2, 2013 at 2.00pm, the rascal flats performed at the Social Freedom Hall. The program of the day was all about the country music band which is made up of Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney (Rascal Flatts, p. 1). The whole concert was superb but the last piece that the performed to end the show impressed me more. It was the performance of their latest song, ‘I wish’; it left an everlasting impression on me. The Rascal Flatts band is known as an American country music group. The group is composed of ...

Isaksen, Dorval and Treffinger (2011) consider that creativity and problem solving are interconnected in a natural manner, as creativity represents an inner characteristic of individuals that manifests when situation requires. The authors consider that creativity produces various outcomes, depending on each individual’s inner creativity (Isaksen, Dorval & Treffinger, 2011).

According to this observation, as I have observed the world for the last few days, I understood that people have different creative processes that they use for solving problems and for interacting daily. As a reaction, the outcomes of applying creativity to solving problems or interacting are different. Many people ...

1. Introduction This research paper provides a comparative analysis of Rhythm and Blues versus Rockand Roll music.In the 1940s,the rhythm and blues music was recorded by the African-American musicians and it was sold to the African-Americanpeople. Rock and roll music and (RNB) Rhythm and Blues are very popular in the world.The comparative analysis aims at increasing the understanding of (RNB) Rhythm andBlues music and rock and roll music. TheRock and Roll music refers to the genre of music that originated from USA in the early 1940s and developed into the rock music in subsequent years.In the early 1940s ...

After long years staying away from my lovely city, Oslo, only a few hours left to be back there. I remember my happy days in Oslo with my family. The place where my grandpa gave me my most valuable present in my life: a guitar. Music went into my heart each time I touched the guitar strings. The strongest passion in my life became my reason to leave my happy memories in my city. The music was forbidden in Oslo. A strange law created barriers between my passion and my city. I preferred my passion. I had to live somewhere ...

For obvious reasons, having a clear and effective understanding of knowledge transfer is a vital tool that should be possessed by all the individuals in any given organisation. Taking the case of the army, knowledge transfer is a critical issue that should never be underestimated. In the military, a soldier is supposed to know what to expect and how they ought to react to varied military situations, therefore, to the soldier, this knowledge is literally a matter of life-and-death. Similarly, the aspect of effective transfer of knowledge in a business organisation either dictates its success or fall. In this report, I will focus on the ...

Often times the question, “How can music be fun if I have to study music?” is posed in an education program or academic setting. People often view the act of study as something that is negative or something we do not necessarily enjoy. Yet, can one find a way to study music theory and still play music for fun from the heart? Most ‘great’ musicians of Blues, Country and Rock n’ Roll never studied theory. They learned from family members that passed their art form from generations or by heart. Waylon Jennings said, "I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' ...

Say, the 3 prospective courses I have shortlisted are French, Guitar and Business Management. I am interested in each of these, but my motivation for taking each is different. In order to arrive at a decision, I would first like to list out the benefits (profit) and drawbacks (cost) of taking each course. The benefits could be pure enjoyment, learning useful skills, a strengthened CV for college applications and the opportunity to assess my interest for taking up a subject as my college major. The drawbacks of taking a particular course could be bad grades, large quantity of coursework or very high ...

Please write about sound art and experimental sound. specifically acousmatics. focus on that subject and please do some research. I will attach two readings but please include outside sources. this paper should be more about content and not form . My background I am from saudi arabia and i haven't been exposed to material like experimental sound before.. please elaborate on that or add it as an example. make it a bit personal if you may. thanks Acousmatics is the study of experimental sounds which may be blended together to form a sort of music. This can come in various shapes ...

Black Music

What’s happening? Black Music. 1. (a) Reggae artist, Duane Stephenson

Duane Stephenson is a non-dancehall reggae artist. The reggae sound and beat are not the up-front of the sound; they are the foundation on which his singing voice and his message comfortably perch. His voice is serious even when he sings; he sounds like an old man, probably because he is mature and thoughtful. His fans describe his voice as wise.1

Stephenson’s albums may be too mellow and well, boring to some. His lyrics are strong so he doesn’t let the music overwhelm his message. He ...

According to the Guinness World Records, the Beatles is considered the best selling group of all time. It was composed of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They were one of the first bands to write and play their own music that started the Beatlemania phenomenon during the 1960s. Their song “Yesterday” is also the most recorded song in history. They are included in Time magazine’s list of the 20th Century’s 100 Most Influential People. To date, they hold the record to the most No. 1 songs in Billboard’s Hot 100.

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Did Beatle­-Mania’s influence on Soviet teenagers contribute to the fall of the Iron Curtain? An argument can be made that Gorbachev’s opening up to the West through glasnost and perestroika was the final nail in the coffin of the Soviet Union. However, due to the overwhelming evidence of an underground musical movement amongst the Soviet youth, the demands of a disillusioned youth were the catalysts for these reforms. With this taken into consideration, a major change in the political landscape of Russia’s domestic and foreign policy may be observed through three stages, initial distribution, Soviet push back, ...

Review The concert I attended was at Madison Square Garden, New York. Time proved to be an elastic aspect on a Grateful Dead stage. The ending of the song happened after every possibility set in the structure and organized by the group's improvising empathy was tested and fulfilled simultaneously. One of the participants, Lesh, gave a good thought of the 31-minute stretching in a vocal charm. The escalating instrumental break was a glorious connected fury consisting of five voices racing in parallel and jamming, as well. The long roll of the music composition was a good evidence of the rapidly advancing idea evident in ...

Reggae music was born on the island of Jamaica in the late 1960s. It is a fairly recent music genre that has roots in mento, R&B and Ska music that were contemporary musical movements. Recorded music was relatively late in coming to Jamaica with the first recording studio opening in 1951 and recording “mento” music which was a fusion of European and African folk dance music. American R&B music also became widely available around that time. The genre of Reggae may have langered in obscurity and never achieved international status and recognition had it not been for it’s most iconic ...

Live Concert Analysis - Reggae - Bob Marley & The Wailer’s (1975)

Introduction

Bob Marley & The Wailers is band reggae from Jamaica that was created by Bob Marley, Hubert Winston McIntosh (Peter Tosh) and Neville Livingston (Bunny Wailer) in 1963. Peter Tosh trained Bob Marley and Bunny wailer into using the musical instruments that is, playing guitar, keyboards, and the percussions (Chesebro 256-270). In the later years, the band had increased in number, and when Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the band in 1974, Bob Marley organized international tours, and a high number of his band members were ...

1) G 2) I 3) K 4) J 5) H 6) B 7) E 8) D 9) F 10) C 11) A 12) Blues text is set to 12-bar blues, with each stanza set to a 12 bar chorus. AAB pattern where first four bars and second four bars have the same line, but a longer concluding line is said in the last bars. 13) Rap removes the notes from the saying of lyrics; instead, they are spoken aloud to the rhythm of the song. 14) Blues inspired ...

The Rolling Stones is the famous English rock band that was setup in April 1962 by Brian Jones who played guitar and harmonica, Mick Jagger the lead vocalist and guitar player, Keith Richards also played guitar and assisted in vocals and the first song of this band “Marquee Club”, was released in 1962. Sticky fingers is one of the most successful albums of this band and the work on this album started with the recording of the first song “Sister Morphine”, in Alabama in December 1969, however the official recordings started in 1970. The Album had variety of ...

Morrison presents the pursuit of wealth and the problems caused by racism as having a profound and damaging effect on the characters in the novel, especially the male characters, who become lesser men as a result and who are out of touch with black culture and their fellow African Americans. The pursuit of wealth is chiefly practiced by Macon Dead II and it influences the way that Milkman lives until he discovers his family’s true history and he is transformed from someone who uses other people and take their devotion to him for granted into a man who is starting ...

Transportation is a crucial factor of production that impacts and determines considerably the final prices of commodities. Therefore, choosing an efficient and effective mode of transportation for given commodities is very vital. Considering that the final price of commodities should be fair and customer friendly, the need to adopt the cheapest yet effective mode of transportation arises. For Caster Guitars Company, the transportation of guitars from Mexico could be efficiently done using road transportation. The fact that there exists good and established infrastructure in Mexico makes this process better. Further, the general mode of road transportation is cheaper. Considering that ...

Introduction

Helping people with amnesia to live a normal life can be a daunting task. It requires patience and lots of observation of behavior. In The Last Hippie, Dr Sack presents the case of Greg F. Greg was a patient who had severe anterograde amnesia caused by damage to his temporal lobe systems and the diencephalon. Anterograde amnesia is the inability to form new memories. The afflicted individual is unable to place new information into long-term memory but the long-term memories present before the tumor or injury remain undamaged. This may occur after an injury or brain tumor. In Greg’s case, it ...

Chick Corea, Al Di Meola, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White Return to Forever “full live”

The concert of “Return to Forever” has impressed with the variety of themes and layers. Avant-garde style performed by the most successful line up of the group in its history: pianist Chick Corea, guitarist Al Di Meola, bassist Stanley Clarke, and drummer Lenny White in this album, called “Romantic Warriors” also brings mature sound of traditional jazz approach in their sound. This jazz/musical classic concert sometimes drive to medieval, I would even say baroque style, as in “The Magician" by Clarke. The “Romantic Warrior” includes compositions from all of the players, making it really collective work. Each of these ...

Psychedelic rock is an important element of rock music and in Jimi Hendrix’s songs we find this style completely at one with the mood of the time. Essentially, although psychedelic rock consists of several distorted and original sounds, it is intended to put a person into a trance and make you forget all the woes which are consistently troubling us. I have considerable experience in psychedelic rock, having listened to various albums from the late 1960’s including those by The Doors and later those of the Australian band, Rush. The influence of drugs such as LSD and others created ...

George Braque understood art in terms of lines, mass, volume and weight used these elements to create subjective beauty. The purpose of art was to create rapport between him and the art piece (Mical, 2003). Braque yearned to not only see but touch artwork and so he created pieces that bridged the manual space and later incorporated other materials like sand and paper onto the canvas. He fragmented his subjects into pieces as a way of getting close to the subject like an artistic surgeon. Fragmentation allowed him to achieve space and movement in his pieces. In the Violin and ...

[Author Name(s), First M. Last, Omit Titles and Degrees] [Institutional Affiliation(s)] [Include any grant/funding information and a complete correspondence address.] Social media or viral marketing creates admirable media strategies that can spread brand opinions on a regular basis. Taking into account the number of people accessing internet daily, viral marketing can be classified as a feed-forward and opinionate strategy. When the recipients’ ratio accelerating a message to their friends or family is high, there is a tremendous increase in the message spreading quickly. This marketing type creates the potential for rapid progress in uncovering and influencing the message. Viral ...

Pablo Picasso’s, ‘The Three Musicians’ was painted in 1921, and is renowned as one of his greatest works. Here we observe the classic combination of colour and line, where the musicians are lounging about in characteristically jaunty poses with not much care for the world. Picasso uses boisterous colours with blue and yellow particularly prominent and demonstrative. The three figures also contain diverse aspects which are immediately noticeable. The musician playing the guitar (which is coloured yellow) is almost obscured by the one playing the flute. The accordion player who is situated at the back is almost ...

Music is known to be universal but the jazz music emanated from slavery as African slaves came with their sounds which they fused with the church sounds and folk songs and songs from Europe in a bid to find consolation in their new surroundings. In the midst of everything it was used to unite the people. While Jazz music is being credited to gaining recognition through Buddy Bolden, the story of Jazz music cannot be discussed without one way or the other inadvertently coming back to Louis Armstrong whom many have claimed to be the greatest of Jazz musicians. He ...

This is a review of Maroon 5 concert on March 13th 2013 in San Jose. Maroon 5 is a multi-talented American pop rock band. The group is made up of five band members. These include Adam Levine, who is the lead singer, James Valentine, the lead guitarist, Mickey Madden, Jesse Carmichael and Matt Flynn. The group mainly uses a guitar and a piano in their performances. They sing emotional love songs that not only have romantic themes, but also express love frustration and disappointments. During their concert at San Jose, the band showcased a lot of impressive planning. They formed an M-shaped stage emerging ...

New Fantanas Fanta commercial

The commercial is indeed persuasive employing every element of rhetorical in its correct length and taste. The commercial runs for thirty one seconds, which is just enough time to catch the attention of the audience without being boring any segments. The commercial employs the three, ethos, logos and pathos collectively meshing up into a product that addresses the objective. This paper shall illustrate the use of the three persuasive styles in the commercial. In overall, it should be appreciated that the commercial effectively employs other forms such as sound effects, impressive background coloration and a cast that the audience is likely ...

World Music and Dance

There is a very long history in music in Spain and it is said to have played a very important role in western music development. Particularly, it has had a very strong effect on the Latin American music. It usually associated with such traditions such as classical guitar and the flamenco however the Spanish music is actually diverse from one region to another. The flamenco is a musical genre from Andalusia in the south of the country. Contrary to this, the music from the north western region mostly revolves around using bagpipes. In the early fifteen and seventeenth centuries Spain played a very significant ...

Jazz can is the classical music of the Americas. New Orleans is the city considered the birthplace of jazz. The history of slavery holds the clues to why jazz became so popular in New Orleans and later became loved around the world. Slaves were given very strict rules to remind them that they were no longer in Africa. They were forbidden to do anything that might seem to be a an African tradition. The masters of slaves did not allow dancing if the step was done by crossing one leg in front of the other. Things like singing and using ...

In Christopher Nolan's 2010 sci-fi thriller Inception, dream-stealer and extractor Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) assembles a team of thieves and architects to infiltrate the dream world of the heir to a client's rival corporation (Cillian Murphy), in order to implant an idea that will accomplish the client's goals. In the meantime, he has to deal with his own demons, including the dream-ghost of his wife and his guilt over his complicity in her death. Along the way, the viewer is treated to stunning visuals, complex characterizations and gravity-defying action sequences that immerse them in a supremely well-made techno thriller. However, one of ...

Tennessee Williams’ play Orpheus Descending is a modern retelling of the well known Greek legend of Orpheus, who goes deep into the Underworld for his beloved Eurydice, to save her from the clutches of death. In the same manner, Williams portrays characters in a conventional Southern community, marred by issues such as conformity to traditionalism, stubbornly refusing to acknowledge and respect those who are different. Thus, these outcasts who are of an unacceptable sexual, religious or racial affiliation are treated as lepers, not even knowing why they are unworthy of basic human rights. All of this forces them to create social ...

Introduction

Rhythm and Blues—RnB—began as a strictly black music in the 1940’s that included a blend of genres such as rock, rap, Motown, doo-wop, club blues, and funk (Edward 2). The etymology of the genre was invented by Jerry Wexler a Billboard editor who sought to change the name of the genre from Black music to R & B in the late 1940’s. The music began from humble beginnings in Harlem, New York to become an instant success in other international stages, such as Britain. The first R&B artist to bring commercial success to the genre was Louis ...

Thomas Earl Petty, commonly known by his stage name, Tom has done so much for the music industry. His participation in the music industry has seen the rock and roll scene improve immensely in the quality of music content where the artists has sang songs that not only entertain the general public and listenership but also educate them in matters affecting the society at large. His has done many hit songs both as a solo artist and as a group, most of which have been widely accepted by both the youths and the general public through out his music career. For ...

Perception: Matching Game

Selection: Salient Information First, the initial stage is the perception process. While at the selection phase, one must identify and gather salient information that is unique. As such, different individuals gather different information from one other due to differences in individual personalities, attitude, and experience. Resultantly, the salient information is gathered, organized, and interpreted to come up with a perception.

There are numerous pieces of salient information that enable me to determine the move to make on each item when in the process of completing as matching game. Arguably, the individual’s gender remains as one piece of information ...

Twang

Twang is a five-member traditional country and western band from Montana. Their sound is reminiscent of country and western music of the 1960’s and ‘70’s that was infused with steel guitars, and the rhythmic sound of foot-tapping guitar licks that people easily got up and danced to. As I watched the video I found myself tapping along to their sound and being taken back to the days when country and western music came from the real roots of the genre. Their music is upbeat and reminded me of the days of Porter Wagoner and Asleep at the Wheel. ...

How they Have Changed Music Production

Abstract The music industry has made many changes over the years. From old style music played on phonographs, to music made purely on a computer, the past century has brought forth incredible technology. Arguably, the biggest change in music production has come in the form of digital audio workstations (DAWs). DAW’s have changed the music industry from being dependent on large music production studios, to being able to happen in anyone’s living room. The purpose of this paper is to explain the many ways in which DAW’s have impacted the music production industry. In order ...

For the analysis, I have chosen song by Metallica “Blackened”. The song lasts for 8:02.

Instrumental element

In the song, the band used percussion and string instruments. In the very beginning, the first part of the intro (0:00 – 0:36) a growing sound of guitar is clearly heard. In the next second, 0:37, a listener hears drums. Since that time, the second part of the intro. The vocalist begins to sing since 1:22. We see that instrumental intro is rather long. The vocal element contrasts on the background of instruments. In the song, we hear soft guitar sounds, loud drum beats and sharp ...

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, ...