I saw Buffalo 40 perform at the DC9, a night club in northwest DC. Buffalo 40 is a rock band that was created in 2013 that combines many musical elements such as “rock funk blues metal and modern rock”(ReverbNation). These fusional musical elements of their performance highlighted their country music and rock musical identities as well as their attire, lyrics, gender identity socioeconomics and race. During the performance of clothing but one exception was one band member was wearing a top hat…
Latin word that means remember you must die. It depicts a picture of a skull on a table on top of a stand with an orange glass bottle beside it. The style of this is Painterly abstraction. The skull is color yellow, orange, white, and the color dark blue is in the skull mouth, eye sockets and in the hole of the skull brain. The stand that supports…
find work and keep his music group together, Lucas’s life was far from easy. However, it is the obstacles that Lucas faced that makes him the perfect person to be a blues singer. It seems like singing the blues was a great way for Lucas to get his feelings and emotions heard. Lucas was clearly a great representation of what blues music was intended for. He was able to effectively express what he was feeling and share it with other people who may have undergone similar circumstances. In…
shades of the trees colors. Even though this was indeed a painting, the sun itself looked very bright by the colors that the artist used. Taking the bright yellows and whites, having the sun appear to shine brightly in the afternoon with the light blue sky becoming its background.…
The contrasting colors of the vehicles reveal fascinating connections to World War II. Each of the vehicles are blue, indicating that they relate to the people on the bottom of the poster. This might describe that the people on the bottom have control over these methods of transportation. The position of each character at the bottom relative to the car, makes it seem that they just arrived at that location and are heading toward another place. The body language isn’t hostile, indicating that the…
What is Cool? Groovy,tubular,brisk and relaxed could all be considered synonyms for the same word but with very different meanings behind them. The word cool is used describe such vast variety of things from people,places,events and feelings. “Grab your jacket honey, it's cool out there!” Mom exclaims as he is walking out the door to catch the bus on that first crisp cool morning of November. Then he had responded by saying “its cool mom, I will be alright” explaining how nonchalant and feeling…
Rock’s first mixed gender and race band: Sly And The Family Stone. Known largely for their sound in the late sixties with as much mixture in their sound as in their band, playing a fusion of soul, rhythm and blues, funk, psychedelia, gospel, and all around high energy music. The band formed in 1967 and had a major hit on Pop and R&B charts in 1968 “Dance To The Music”, but got a much greater fan base after their amazing performance at Woodstock. They played at 3:30 am Sunday morning August 17,…
America in the 1950s was a change for the better. The post World War II America was changing; such as, new technology, cultures, and economic booms. This was the age that America was rising to becoming a better nation, while many Americans were moving up in life by moving to the middle class. The middle class in the 50s was growing as lower classes were fading slowly. Just after World War II America’s culture was changing. With the birth of Rock N Roll a new generation of music was introduced.…
Folk Music – Pete Seeger Many throughout the years have shaped folk music, however, one of the most well known folk singers was a man named Pete Seeger. As a multi-instrumentalist, Seeger played the Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin, Piano, Recorder, and the Tin Whistle. However, Seeger also did more than play music. He was also participated in activism of all kinds. He was born in New York City on May 3rd, 1919. He grew up in a household surrounded by music because both his mother and father were…
attitude cause everyone to fall in love with this Mississippi bread star. Like every other musician, Elvis had his influences. Elvis’s influences made his style so unique because it’s a mix of a few different styles of music including, African-American blues, Christian gospel, and Southern country. Presley sang both hard driving rock, rock and roll dance songs and ballads, laying a commercial foundation upon which other rock musicians would build their careers. That’s the way the music industry…