Essays on Musicology

Just like this decade, Hip Hop music has been very instrumental in expressing cultural aspects, political views, social perspectives and attitude towards a particular group in the 80’s. Criminal minded was widely considered to be the foundation of the hardcore rap, that announced its overall intentions with just a cover photo of its artists- Kris-One and Scott La Rock. These artists posed with weapons which was unheard musical gesture since the year 1987. Boogle Down production was a rap tailored to explain about the inner city violence and drugs. There existed no explicit mention of the real gangs who conducted the ...

The recent three decades have witnessed intensive studies and researches on compositional process. Although the studies on compositional process have been a common state of the affair in traditional musicology, the analysis on this process became relevant in the early 1980’s. In an attempt to understand compositional process, Owen Jessie composed a comprehensive writing, “Evidence of Cipriano de Rore's Compositional Process”. The work presents an intensive analysis and description on some issues, concepts, and facts that define effective music composition. Besides the critics from modern scholars and music experts, Owen has proved her competence on music by presenting reliable facts ...

Both Karl Marx and Theodor W. Adorno are Germany philosophers who made significant introspective examination of sociology and other significant studies that are of significant value to society. Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier, Germany. Marx schooled in Trier from 1830 to 1835 and he later went Bonn University where studied law. While at Bonn Marx had most of his time spent in running large debts in addition to socialization. Though majority of the people in his birth town were Catholics being of Jewish dialect, Marx chose to be a protestant. Marx later moved to Berlin University where ...