Bombshell Rocks

On February 11 at 10:30am, I attended Aggieland Saturday, an open house for prospective students, and observed the Aggie band play. The band played a total of 4 songs and the last song being the Aggie War Hymn. Unfortunately, the performance didn’t contain the entire aggie band as I expected, but rather members from all the necessary subgroups were present. The key instruments were aerophones, membranophones, and idiophone. The major aerophones consisted of: clarinets, piccolos, trumpets,…

creative, politicized rock of the 1960s into the massively popular, de-politicized rock of the 1970s as the Eagles.” Initially, the four original Eagles—Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Bernie Meisner, and Bernie Leadon were recruited as the backup band of Linda Ronstadt. After finishing the work with Linda Ronstadt, Don Henley and Glenn Frey, decided to found “Eagles” and recruited Bernie Meisner, and Bernie Leadon. After thinking, Eagles decided to focus on country rock and hard rock. In 1972, Eagles…

first documentary, One Direction: This Is Us. The film grossed nearly $70 million worldwide, that’s over half of the box office sales of all 26 of Elvis Presley’s films in the 1960’s. That’s a very impressive showing against the so-called “King of Rock and Roll!” (via Boxofficemojo.com, Elvis.net, and Modest…

In the starting years of MTV, the majority of bands that used the new medium were British. British bands had already been experimenting with the style and fashion, “experimenting with the emergent medium for some time and arrived with stylish videos in hand” (Cateforis 54). Unlike American bands, these British bands had already adapted to a style suitable for television. After punk music, British bands kept the electronic instruments and “distinctions between automated and human performance were…

punk subculture has become very popular amongst teenagers in the last few years. Teenagers are attending concerts of punk bands, dressing “punk rock”, and are making social media accounts dedicated to this subculture. They are known as punks. Punks choose to be in this subculture because they listen to this genre of music. They are often part of the rock and metal subcultures too. Punk music started in the 1970’s. Many punks argue whether it was The Ramones or The Sex Pistols who started punk.…

This includes: rock, psychedelia, and the electric guitar. Tropicalist ideas became the driving force behind the modernization of not only music, but the country’s national culture. The movement followed the best traditions of great composers of Bossa Nova through the incorporation of new information and references from its time. Tropicalism mixed rock, Bossa Nova, Samba, Rumba, Bolero, and Baiao. Its presence broke a lot of rigid barriers…

Jazz-Rock has been defined as music that has combined elements of both Jazz and Rock ‘N’ Roll, and is usually performed on amplified electric instruments (Dictionary.com). Jazz-Rock is often called fusion or cross over and is accompanied by bass lines, drumming styles and Rock music (Britannica.com). It tends to put an emphasis on electric instruments and dance rhythms and in the 1960s jazz tunes began to include Rock rhythms, those elements have contrasted and enhanced each other (Britannica).…

Project Task #1 My research topic is about the correlation between punk music and rap. Music has always reflected its generation and what was going in that era. Punk music and rap are two totally different genres and cultures. Despite the difference in sound, they face the same socioeconomic issues. Both Punk, and Rap are products of low income areas. What I’m gonna be talking about is how and why the same things affect both subcultures. Both are viewed negatively, but…

Music is a popular method of communicating and expressing a person’s thoughts and feelings. Like many other forms of art, music is composed of a myriad of genres that are very distinct from one another. Often they reflect a person’s state of mind or personality; however, one’s own preference for music should not place a stereotype or limit onto that person. For example, a goth is usually seen as liking screamo or heavy metal music when in fact he or she may like classical or pop music. Usually,…

Thornton’s recording of "Hound Dog" with that of Elvis Presley recording. The first difference between Big Mama Thornton’s and Elvis Presley’s version is that Big Mama recorded the song “Hound Dog” as a blues song. Whereas Elvis version is considered to be Rock N Roll. Another difference between the two different recordings of Hound Dog is that both artist decided to start of the song differently. In Big Mama Thornton’s version she decides to start the song off like in a typical blues way.…