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Alternative music is known as a distinction from mainstream rock music. It is different due to a different, somewhat distorted, guitar sound, insubordinate lyric, and a casual, or defiant, attitude being portrayed in the music. However, there are many sub genres included in alternative music ranging from rock to soft guitar playing. The subgenres are grunge, indie pop, indie rock, reggae, electronic music, jazz, and underground music. This type of music is normally kept out of mainstream, and is…

society of the time. These political statements are sometimes veiled in almost surrealistic statements, which seem to come out of left field at first listen. One such example is the line “The sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken” from the song “Tombstone Blues”. At first this seems like a completely nonsensical line, but when you analyze the words it actually makes sense. The words yellow and chicken are also ways of saying cowardly or weak, so this could be a criticism of people, specifically…

Throughout the past century, there have been an insurmountable number of products produced in the media industry. Naturally, other works such as films, television shows, and video games sample certain products to enhance their work; the most common form of this is music. Music has been around for centuries; therefore, individuals are, undoubtedly, inserting older songs to their work. An example of a music supervisor using an earlier song in a film is from, Perks of Being a Wallflower. For…

I recently read that Congress is adding a new national holiday and were looking for citizen input. Billie Joe Armstrong should have his own holiday, named Green Day, for having his band be very influential, helped renew interest in punk rock in the U.S., and has sung a variety of different music types that appealed to a large audience. Billie Joe Armstrong’s band was very influential to the music industry. A Times UK article states about the American band, “their influence has been all over…

All about that bass The horizontal bass has a vague history. Many bassist believe Leo Fender was the first creator of the horizontal bass; but, they’re not completely right. Though Fender made the “ Precision “ bass ( which was the first good sounding bass ) there were at least 4 prototypes before that. The modern bass was a grandchild to the seventeenth century double bass. The first notable change was in the nineteen-twenties by a man named Lloyd Loar, which at the time worked for a notable…

The event that I attended for my essay two humanities experience was the AC/DC concert at Wrigley field in Chicago Illinois. I consider this a humanities experience because AC/DC is a rock band and rock music is a form of art. Rock music was developed in the 50’s and 60’s and was a huge element to the humanities movement of the 20th century. Through its expression of “youth culture” dancing, sexual freedom, and rebellion made one of the greatest musical movements in history. My experience at…

music is a genre of the United States popular music that has originated in the Southern and Southeastern United States in the year of 1920. Country music takes the roots of several music genres from the southeastern part of the United States known as Blues music, folk music, and western music. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes. Country music features instruments such as banjos, mandolins, guitars, fiddles, harmonicas, accordions, dulcimers, acoustic bass, jaw harp, and the…

Rock and roll, as a genre of music, quickly became a cultural phenomenon in the United States after its inception in the forties and fifties, reaching its peak of popularity in the sixties and seventies. But, while rock and roll originated in the United States, different countries soon developed their own styles and flavors, from Western Europe to Latin America. But, while rock and roll has always held heavy anti-establishment messages across nations, nowhere have these sentiments been more…

Swing as an Attitude Towards Life Arising in the mid-1930s and originating in the United States, the newest style of jazz, swing, brought forth a renewed interest in jazz across the world, even in Nazi Germany. As the world began to recover from economic depression, swing, and swing-influenced music came to represent the latest trend in popular music. Despite discrimination against jazz music and jazz culture in the Third Reich, swing found an enthusiastic and dance-hungry audience. For a…

The saxophone is a wonderful instrument. As a member of the reed and woodwind family of instruments it is usually compared to the clarinet or flute. As an instrument that could reach four octaves, there is much you can play and plenty of room for experimentation. Saxophones are normally made of brass to create their colorful, characteristic sound, but some, in the past have been made of copper, silver, bronze, and even plastic. There are four main saxophones that are commonly used which are…