Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording

Carolina, two-time winner of the Entertainer of the Year award, Luke Bryan had a strong connection with the 2015 flood victims. As a way of showing support…

When first considering topics for this essay, I thought about the dance project because it sounded exotic and fun or maybe the interview project because of simplicity. However, I ended up choosing music review because I thought it would be the easiest and fastest. Little did I know how much I would learn from this assignment. Music affects people in a wide variety of ways, and it has done so for centuries. Different pieces leave different marks on their viewers sometimes a deeper, new found…

floods of Arkansas, Cash wrote songs about it all. Except this time, not only did he just record music, Cash also had special appearances on radio barn dance programs, network television shows, and even in movies. “His star ascended higher still in 1958, when he departed from Sun Records and signed with Columbia Records, one of the nation’s biggest recording companies at the time.” (The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives) Unfortunately, Cash struggled with substance abuse, especially after…

position because the local rap scene was totally dominated by black people2. Nevertheless, he managed to do something impossible and get incredible fame – his album The Eminem Show won the Grammy Award and Without Me, which is the single from this production, won the best music video award. Moreover, the album was the best-selling music entertainment title even though Eminem expressed a large amount of anger in it which struck against the institutions of "white America," the music business and,…

different ethnicities and nationalities built their religious and secular rituals, festivals, and social gatherings on the foundation of song, dances, and rhythms they invented to cope with the New World realities. During the slavery era, enslaved African American became the musicians of choice for white and black celebrations because they were recognized as the best “musicians” around. Enslaved Africans also left their cultural markings on other aspects of American culture. African American…

Louis Armstrong was a lot of things while he was alive. He was a singer, a soloist, a film star, a comedian and also a fellow trumpeter (“Louis Armstrong Biography”). He wrote many hits during his time such as Starburst, La Vie En Rose and What A Wonderful World (“Louis Armstrong Biography”). Throughout not only his career, but also his life, he faced many struggles. Living in the early Nineteenth Century was already hard enough for a young black man but even harder for a young black…

immigrants and African slaves and the earliest form of country was born. Country music began it journey into the headlines in the early 1920’s because of artist being able to truly connect with the listeners. “In 1925, four musicians from Virginia recording under the name Hill Bellies gave rise to the term hill Billy music, somewhat scornfully applied to the music of country fiddlers, harmonica players, and singers of traditional country ballads.” (Ferris, Jean. America's Musical Landscape).…

has a show on FX Atlanta written and staring himself that have won him a golden globe for best television show and three albums that have gone gold and had large radio play. Donald has reach a large group of people with all that he has been successful with. All of what Donald…

legend, Michael Jackson, is one of the biggest names in the music industry to date. The “King of Pop” reigned over the entertainment scene in the 1980-2009, creating music that lure in fans from around the world. During Mr. Jackson’s worst and absolute best times, he was constantly surrounded, and supported by billions of his fans. Michael Jackson not only was the face of the American music industry, but changed the way people, internationally, listened to music. Michael was born into the life…

many artists can do. She reinvents her music. Lady Gaga’s master reinvention began with an unlikely companion, Tony Bennett. The singer finds herself singing jazz music. She “[releases] an album of jazz duets with Tony Bennett (for which she won a Grammy)” in which she crafts music delicately and professionally (D’Addario 3). “Cheek to Cheek, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in the fall of 2014” (Martins 3). We begin to see Gaga draw back from press attention and begins to showcase her…