Iggy Pop

“Rock music, also known as "rock and roll," is a type of music that developed from rock ‘n’ roll and uses a heavy regular beat, electric guitars, singing, and a tune that is easy to remember, which became popular in the 1950s in America and Europe” (Macmillan dictionary) Nowadays, rock & roll is one of the most popular genres of music all over the world, but the majority of listeners of this type of music do not know how it affects their psychology. There is a lot of debate about the fact…

In a sex-dominated society like present day America, the content is prevalent in all media, specifically music. Music has always been sexual, it is just that as sex became less taboo, people were more free to express themselves, but there were still restrictions set in place, which made people more inclined to break them. This is shown in music for all audiences from adults to children, but there is one main difference in the way that the content is expressed, and that is cultural. White and…

Attending my first concert, Idina Menzel was my first live performance to ever attend and experience the music live. Menzel performs a selection of songs from her Broadway career, along with original songs from her various solo albums, and her Pop and Rock covers. The group that performed for Menzel was a local Los Angeles band and they played very well for the choices of songs she sang. The performers that played for Menzel was very impressive and seemed they had no problem playing and…

Starting in the 1950s as part of America’s counter culture, rock music swiftly rose in popularity with an appeal to youth, vitality, and revolt. Rock revolutionized music and spread it across cultures to involve anyone willing to listen, going beyond the artful form of music that had previously been reserved for the upper class. Music has taken many different forms over the years, created new factions, new sounds, but the undisputed claim to fame today as far as music is concerned lies with…

Since the beginning of the 12th century, the guitar has been noted as one of the most popular Western musical, string instrument; it is used in a wide variety of musical genres worldwide. However, on the other hand, most people cannot easily recognize the Western guitar’s Eastern counterpart – the Gu Zheng. Originally found during the Warring States Period in Ancient China (475 to 221 BC), the Gu Zheng gradually became a prominent musical instrument within Asian culture. However, though…

his hypochondria as a child. He illuminated the world by changing the way people thought about pop art. Warhol created a styles of art where abstract color is added to popular figures. “ Warhol was one of the founders of pop art, a stylistic movement that representationally portrays the collective subconscious psyche of society through the common images of…

Pop Art The Pop Art movement began in the 1950’s. It was the art of popular culture. The visual imagery of pop art created a sense of hopefulness during the post war of the 1950’s and the 1960’s. Pop art was a revolt against abstract expressionism. The goal was to bring art back from it’s obscurity of abstraction into the real world again (www.artfactory.com) Andy Warhol was a famous artist of the Pop art movement. He was against the idea of craftsmanship as a way of expressing an artist…

''Can i walk you home." he asked "sure" "So where did you move from," "Halfway,Oregon," "Halfway I've never heard of it," "you know small town population 290 well now 287 mom and pop stores one library huge city hall tons of churches," "sounds nice," "It was," "why did you move," "well my dad died of cancer last year and i guess my mom just wanted a fresh start," "I'm sorry" "it's okay but enough about me what's your story," "I'm 17 I was born and raised here in Montpelier,Vermont I am an only…

consumerism on the Pop Art Movement The Pop Art Movement began shortly after World War 2 reached its end in 1945. The Pop Art Movement originated in the 1950’s / 1960’s, emerging from a society which was plagued with consumerism. The 1950’s / 1960’s was when consumerism was at its strongest point and the Pop Art Movement was able to be born from this massive level of consumerism that was in America. Consumerism influenced the Pop Art Movement significantly and without consumerism Pop Art would…

It was a Sunday when this tragic incident happened. On May 8th I was trying to get this stump out at my mom's house with an axe. I went to stick it in the top of the stump to go eat lunch and it bounced off the stump and landed on my foot. It left a big scar on my left big toe. It didn’t hurt but blood was rushing out like crazy. And all I could think was “why doesn’t it hurt.” At 10:00 in the morning on Mother’s day my mom said “let's plan out our day.” The first thing she said was “let's rake…