A Music Revolution
Obando 1 Anonymous Mr. Munjack English IV 21 March 2006 A Music Revolution Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. This quote by Peter York says a lot of things about rock and roll. From the beginnings of this style of music until now, it has dramatically changed t....

Bessie Smith
Known as the Empress Of Blues, Bessie Smith was said to have revolutionized the vocal end of Blues Music. She showed a lot of pride as an independent African-American woman. Her style in performance and lyrics often reflected her lifestyle. Bessie Smith was one of the first female jazz artists, and ....

Censorship of Music
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 should be ce....

Cultures and Society
In todays society when you think of culture, you think of family background, morals, and Customs. Growing up in an Italian family I was taught many morals and values such as being respectful to your elders, visiting your grandmother every Sunday, The boys are suppose to do the manual labor of....

Effect of Jazz on rock and roll
Louis Armstrong once sang, I hear babies crying, I watch them grow/ Theyll learn much more than Ill never know/ And I think to myself what a wonderful world. The irony of those lyrics is that Louis Armstrong would never live to see the enormous impact that he and his jazz colleagues had on....

Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was the king of Rock and Roll. He was the most famous man in the world and sold more than half a billion records. Elvis was a terrific guy and a loving person. Everyone loved Elvis. Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi. He was going to be one ....

fashion of the twenties and thirties
Casual Fashions of the Twenties The twenties was a time of fun and craziness among the young generation. The fashion fads of the time created a path for the fashions of today. Before the twenties women wore ankle-length skirts, corsets , and other restricting garments, men wore ove....

Fifities (The 50's)
The fifties was a very exciting decade. It was a time of happiness and fun. The end of World War II brought thousands of young servicemen back to America to pick up their lives and start new families in new homes with new jobs. With energy never before experienced, American industry expanded to m....

Harlem Renaissance ( Coleman Hawkins)
Coleman Hawkins Reign During the Harlem Renaissance A very big part of the 1920's was the Harlem Renaissance also known as the "New Negro Movement." It brought out the art, music, and literature side of most African American people. This took place in New York and during the 1920's and ended ar....

its all about dance
Dance (from Old French dancier, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. Dance is also used to describe methods of non-verbal communication (see body language) between humans or animal....

music genres
Music. Fascinating both by its diverse individual styles and the inevitable fusion of different genres which in turn have created other completely new and unique styles of music. Classical music is a perfect example. The earliest forms of classical music were composed in the eighteenth and earl....

nifty fifties
The Nifty Fifties Thesis The Fifties shaped the way we live today. Fifties entertainment and fashion were in some ways better than today, and worse in other ways. Introduction I. Music a. Rock and Roll and artists II. Movies a. Gimmicks b. varieties III. Censorship a. Movies b. Radio ....

Nine Inch Nails Hurt Influence
Nine Inch Nails Hurt Influence When listening to any Nine Inch Nails song many emotions are affected. However, one song does this more than any other and that song is Hurt, this song uses many rhetorical devices to accomplish this, some of them are: repetition, metaphors, and symbolism. Not o....

Rock and Roll
Rock And Roll (1044) Rock and roll, characterized by its pulsating drums, repetitive chord progressions, stepped up tempos, and loud guitars, provided American teens of the 1950s the perfect excuse to dance crazy new dances and wear wild new hairstyles. Like all genres of music, rock and roll h....

Rock and Roll
Rock and Roll Rock and Roll is a genre of music that has its seeds of America and quickly spread to the rest of the world. It developed in the late 1940s and early 50s, when the racial tension came to surface. It had its peak of popularity in the years between 1955 through 1963 but these ....

Rock and Roll: Reckless or Necessary?
Rock and Roll: Reckless or Necessary? It is amazing to think about how influential Rock n Roll was on the youth of the fifties. When Rock n Roll was first introduced to America in 1951 by way of Rocket 88, the first rock album, everything from Americans ideals to their restaurant....

What is rock n roll?
ROCK ON, dude! now thats a phrase everyone is familiar with. But where did that phrase really come from? Everyone has heard some type of rock n roll music but very few know the true history of how rock n roll began or the conflicts of the new genre. Is it really devil worshipping mu....

Why did Groups such as the beatles and rolling stones have such a great impact during the 1960s
Why did the groups like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones have such a great impact during the 1960's? The Rolling Stones and The Beatles had a very great impact on society as of many reasons. Firstly, music was becoming ever more important in the everyday life of the youth. Music programmes on....

Woodstock
WOODSTOCK 1969 What were the feelings of society in America during the late 1960s? Who were the movers and the shakers of those times? Woodstock [came to symbolize] the unity of purpose among the swelling ranks of youth who opposed the war in Vietnam and hoped to assert their own power....

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