Bruce Springsteen

Between 1965 and the 1990s, culture and popular music had been intertwined in the United States. There were postwar promises of prosperity such as jobs, social leveling and of peace. However, this was not at all true and the promises were not kept. During these periods a counter-culture surfaced that reacted against ongoing justices and questioned the United States. One of the prominent keys were musicians who wrote protest songs and delivered their message to the people. Music had revealed the…

Among the most influential people in the punk rock scene is Patti Smith. Born in Chicago in 1946 she grew up in what many would call the ‘ghetto’. As a young girl, she had problems with gender confusion. She was a very big tomboy and frankly wasn’t very attractive. She eventually moved to New York after her dreams of being an Art Teacher fell through. While living in New York, she met an artist by the name of Robert Mapplethorpe. He eventually came out as homosexual, but they kept a close…

references to the Disney show "So Random" and the book "Grapes of Wrath," which many high schoolers must read—most of the references fall falt, such as the entire idea of facing enemies like those we faced during World War II, and even the referral to Bruce…

Music was once a place to get away. All throughout time, music has been love, passion, exercise, therapy, and fun. Music has changed dramatically in the last fifty to sixty years. Rhythm and Blues music was once known as rock and roll but was changed when the two different types of music took their own way. Rhythm and Blues started big in the 40’s and 50’s. It was the biggest and most popular type of music and made the most impact in history. R&B (Rhythm and blues), which consists of soulful…

The Beatles: a band so popular that it was compared with Jesus Christ himself. This band like many others had a shaky start, and for many lived for too little. But during its prime the Beatles created some of the world’s favorite music, and influenced an entire generation of it. Firstly the purpose of this essay is to explain the ways that “The Beatles” and its members shaped music around the world. While doing this this essay is going to tell the story of the Beatles. This will include how…

is a work of fiction that is meant to display the absurdities of the American teenage experience. Published in 1985, Boyle is quick to contextualize the work within an 80s teenager’s frame of reference; he opens the story with a lyric from a Bruce Springsteen song, “Sprit of the Night,” which acts as Boyle’s first symbol in the story, a tribute to the teenagers of the decade in which the story is published. But, from the content, it can be surmised that the story takes place near the time of the…

Megadeth, Sepultura, Overkill, Gwar, Pantera, Suicidal Tendencieses 11980's Top 20Best Selling Albums Worldwide: 1 Michael Jackson - Thriller - 1982 2 Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms - 1985 3 U2 - The Joshua Tree - 1987 4 Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA - 1984 5 Michael Jackson - Bad - 1987 6 Prince - Purple Rain - 1984 7 The Police - Synchronicity -…

Elvis Presley's “dream” that he whispered into everyone's year in 1956 was that anyone can become anything they want to be if they work hard enough for it, even a highly successful music artist. Elvis proved this because he was born into a poor family and worked his way to becoming one of the most successful music artists of all time and arguably the most important figure in pop culture in the 20th century. “Elvis came into the world poor and cut-off from most of the benefits of life in…

an exponential growth in their influence over politics; this is primarily due to the ubiquitous nature of social media in our culture. However, there is another aspect of media influence political thought; music. Lady Gaga, John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen all made songs that conveyed a political message (i.e. gay rights, anti-war, etc.). But, in urban communities the major stimulus of political socialization has been hip hop music. In Andrew Smith’s paper titled The Influence of Rap Music in…

Amnesty International, or the name at least, has been known to me since I attended a concert in September, 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I saw performances by a host of artists including Bruce Springsteen, Tracy Chapman, and Peter Gabriel. The concert tour was held to raise awareness of human rights and the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At that concert, I heard Peter Gabriel sing a version of Biko written to commemorate the story of Steven Biko who was…