One of the many things I have learned in my short sixteen years is that everyone is unique in a way that is exclusive to them. Everyone has special hobbies, activities, or patterns their life revolves around. My life revolves around spending time talking with family and friends, learning new things, going school, listening music, writing poetry, reading, painting, and of course work. These are just a few of the things I am writing about in this essay. I would also add that without these key parts my life would be exceptionally dull. My family has taught me to value people over material possessions and time rather than money. Items are lost, stolen, broken or even forgotten. When we look back at life it's our relationships we have built
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Growing up I wasn't exposed to a lot of secular music. My parents mainly listened to gospel or country gospel with a little folk music thrown in the mix. Rock and roll music was not associated with good decisions in both my parents pasts, so for that reasons rock and roll music was not promoted in our house. As I got older I of course became curious about who this group called the Beatles were, what was the big deal about this guy named Elvis and why were the churches so concerned about this rock and roll poet named Jim Morrison. I didn't start listening to much rock and roll music until I started working and met Ralph. As we talked more and I became fascinated with the amazing phenomenon of this music and the effect it had done to shape our world. I soon decided to dedicate my life to the study of musicology. As I started this very lengthy endeavor I began to realize just have massive the effects of rock and roll were. Rockabilly along with doo wop and rhythm blues was the start of early rock and roll and teenage revolution that set the whole world on fire. Rock and roll music expressed the feeling that were felt but not able to be talked about. It's lyrics brought up the subjects that wee considered taboo. Rock and roll was freedom. Freedom from all levels of social or racial separation. Rock and roll was the result of the new generation, the teenagers of the 1940s,50s,60s and 70s breaking away from the older generation. The music produced during that era was the younger generation taking a stand and making that decision to progress. The war had just ended. The world was still recovering. It wasn't necessarily read but it was time for a change. Rock and roll music brought that change on all levels socially, politically, linguistically, as well as changing both men's and women’s
Growing up I wasn't exposed to a lot of secular music. My parents mainly listened to gospel or country gospel with a little folk music thrown in the mix. Rock and roll music was not associated with good decisions in both my parents pasts, so for that reasons rock and roll music was not promoted in our house. As I got older I of course became curious about who this group called the Beatles were, what was the big deal about this guy named Elvis and why were the churches so concerned about this rock and roll poet named Jim Morrison. I didn't start listening to much rock and roll music until I started working and met Ralph. As we talked more and I became fascinated with the amazing phenomenon of this music and the effect it had done to shape our world. I soon decided to dedicate my life to the study of musicology. As I started this very lengthy endeavor I began to realize just have massive the effects of rock and roll were. Rockabilly along with doo wop and rhythm blues was the start of early rock and roll and teenage revolution that set the whole world on fire. Rock and roll music expressed the feeling that were felt but not able to be talked about. It's lyrics brought up the subjects that wee considered taboo. Rock and roll was freedom. Freedom from all levels of social or racial separation. Rock and roll was the result of the new generation, the teenagers of the 1940s,50s,60s and 70s breaking away from the older generation. The music produced during that era was the younger generation taking a stand and making that decision to progress. The war had just ended. The world was still recovering. It wasn't necessarily read but it was time for a change. Rock and roll music brought that change on all levels socially, politically, linguistically, as well as changing both men's and women’s