The Power of Music: Classical Vs Comical The text “Rebel Music” by Daniel Felsenfeld and the text “Weirdly Popular” by Sasha Frere-Jones deal with the main idea of music and the affect it has on people. “Rebel Music” is about Daniel Felsenfeld’s transformation and discovery as a musician. It discusses his time as a child playing piano and listening to punk music, to later finding classical music and dreaming of becoming a composer, he even says in his article that “..., having long ago colonized this planet and gone native, and active member of a community I once admired from what seemed like an impossible distance”. On the other hand, “Weirdly Popular” discusses the success of Weird Al Yankovic in the past 38 years. Weird Al Yankovic does parodies of
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In the article, Frere says that he doesn’t “laugh at Al’s songs” because he is delighted by his “presence in the world of pop culture”, which shows how big of an impact Weird Al has had on his listeners.Both authors explore within their essays the importance of genres, audiences, and purpose to show the power of music by comparing and contrasting two different types of music using literary devices such as imagery and metaphors to help illustrate their point. First, these two articles compare and contrast the genres of music that the authors are discussing. In “Rebel Music” it talks about how the author was trying to be rebellious by listening to a certain type of music, which at first was punk, but eventually became classical music, where he says, “My passion for this “other” kind of music felt like the height of rebellion: I was the lone Bolshevik in my army”. This shows that he felt like a rebel for being the only person in Orange County, California who was listening to Classical music. On the other hand, in “Weirdly Popular”, it discusses how Weird Al Yankovic helps
In the article, Frere says that he doesn’t “laugh at Al’s songs” because he is delighted by his “presence in the world of pop culture”, which shows how big of an impact Weird Al has had on his listeners.Both authors explore within their essays the importance of genres, audiences, and purpose to show the power of music by comparing and contrasting two different types of music using literary devices such as imagery and metaphors to help illustrate their point. First, these two articles compare and contrast the genres of music that the authors are discussing. In “Rebel Music” it talks about how the author was trying to be rebellious by listening to a certain type of music, which at first was punk, but eventually became classical music, where he says, “My passion for this “other” kind of music felt like the height of rebellion: I was the lone Bolshevik in my army”. This shows that he felt like a rebel for being the only person in Orange County, California who was listening to Classical music. On the other hand, in “Weirdly Popular”, it discusses how Weird Al Yankovic helps