Genre

music while studying will more than likely listen to their preferred genre, and this may or may not impact their studying. Attention and the effects of listening to music while studying have been intensely researched over recent years. Researchers and psychologists have conducted several studies to determine whether listening to music while studying had a negative or positive effect on students’ cognitive performances. The various genres affect the brain in different ways, which also depends on…

Funk music as an expression brought with it a newly packaged music that was capable of fully embracing both the performers’ and audiences energies. Funk emphasized dancing and how it further expressed implicit meanings not always explicitly understood through the lyrics. Funk music opened the door for a particular subculture, black youth, to take their form of dance expression and broadcast it across the United States through the culturally important program Soul Train. In particular, the…

As I hear many people say for themselves, I also have a variety of music tastes. By this I mean that there are many songs I enjoy that come from a variety of genres, but they are usually considered mainstream. Songs I enjoy can come from American pop, hip hop, country, K-pop, punk, classical, and many other genres. My musical journey began with my family. My parents are Chinese who grew up in Vietnam, so I was exposed to Vietnamese children songs from CDs my mom brought from Vietnam and 80s…

There are many types of music genre. Genres are different to countries, culture, and tradition. When I feel depressed or excited, I listen to music which matches the feeling. I joined the English Club two weeks ago; members of the club introduced some kinds of music and described them. Genres that I often listen to country folk by John Denver, blues rock by The Beatles, and R&B/Soul by Bill Withers. Rock music is a popular music which uses an electronic guitar. Rock usually makes people excited…

music an individual listens to, it can manipulate the brain to change his or her mood and improve cognitive skills. The various genres of music provide a large quantity of positive effects on the brain and act to help one function better in everyday life. The most popular genres of music include jazz, classical, heavy metal, rap, country, and pop, and each of these genres has a different effect on the brain and can be genuinely helpful. One way music can be helpful, is through the undertaking…

John Carpenter’s original Halloween (1978) premiered at a time when the horror film genre was undergoing distinct changes. As Ernest Mathijs notes in a Flow forum post on the ritual of Halloween horror viewing, monster films and other classic horror were being replaced at the end of the 1970s with “stories about the ‘horror within’, the evil amidst the community.” Some predecessors of Halloween, such as Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976) and Charles B. Pierce’s The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)…

plays a key role in contemporary society and is also a key component of subculture, as it is a form of creative transformation and expression. One of the most universal forms of art is music, which can be further categorized into a wide range of music genres such as hardcore, punk, metal, grunge, straight edge, electronica, old-school rap, alternative rock and metalcore. Music subcultures grants consumer the ability to find a plethora of possibilities and opportunities for self-expression in…

Both share common traits but at the same time have their dissimilarities. Some of the contrasting elements that are apparent between the two are the origin in which each genre was brought up. The genre of country blues was developed amongst the rural areas of the deep south. There were many individual artists that had spanned over the Mississippi delta of New Orleans creating a style of country blues called delta blues. Some of the more…

Fitting Genre to Audience and Purpose (Rough Draft) When writing, it is important to know to whom you are talking to and what’s the purpose of your composition. Throughout this course, my classmates and I have worked on many assignments where the audience varied. Sometimes our assignments were for our professor and other times for the rest of the class. The way us as students communicate with each other is different than how we talk to our professors. A good example that demonstrates this is how…

someone through hard times, something that spoke to them or something that has significance in their lives. This is something that people who are fans of rap and hip-hop have to face on a regular basis. In somewhat recent times people have given this genre of music a bad reputation and placed blame on it for many things, the most prominent of which is it’s vulgar lyrics having a bad influence on children. Rap lyrics do not have a negative effect on kids, but is rather a positive art form used…