Marvin Gaye

this article on Reddit Share this article on Pinterest Expert Author Wenny Yap Whether you want to live a long life or if you only care for an opportunity to live a short one... either way, it is your own responsibility to make it a happy life! Marvin Gaye sang "DON 'T WORRY, BE HAPPY!" Well, he may be right or he may be wrong. How you are going to achieve that happiness is entirely…

The song, How About a Cheer for the Navy by Irving Berlin, portrays democracy because it represents how the media praised The Navy. The lyrics of the song tells listeners and readers that The Navy is strong; the song represents patriotism, strength, and importance of the navy in the second world war. The lyrics of the patriotic song gives the people of America hope that The Navy is strong and will fight for them. The soldiers who sang, “How about a Cheer for the Navy”, believe that William Knox,…

If I am in a situation that I know only God can see me through it, then I lend to Gospel. Most of the time when I am listening to music it is Gospel that I choose to listen to. However, when I am feeling depressed or upset about something I just turn on the radio and listen to whatever is being played or I might pop in a CD of my favorite artist. Music speaks to my emotions. After, listening to it from being depress or upset it soothes and relaxes me. The music that makes me happy is Gospel.…

The warm spice of autumn pirouetted through the air as he prowled around, searching for perfection. Then he found it. She was exquisite; with legs longer than the Nile, more curves than Lombard Street, and eyes swimming with sin, her carnal magnetism left his nerves raw and his body aching with desire. His breath hitched and his legs buckled as she sauntered towards him. He took a tentative step forward, thick tension saturating the atmosphere as she tilted her head and affirmed his desire with…

Same Fans, New Technology Eleonor S. | Female | Age 86 (Bio 1): Eleonor was born in 1931 and was raised in Haiti. As a middle child in a set of 12, Eleonor was exposed to a broad scope of opinions about music and the world she lived in. She was raised as a Baptiste and converted to a Seventh Day Adventist later in life. Eventually, Eleonor married and had six children of her own. Her father in Law, Augustin Bruno, was a successful musician playing the saxophone for the Haiti’s National Palace…

More often than not, the phrase of ‘the night is still young’ will always be coining the ears of some individuals. In the middle of the night, a certain extent of the phrase is perpetuated until it is suitable to cater a positive morale for those who are doing their assignments, especially for those who enforce some catch-up of their work till the brink of time; however, slowly but surely, the body of those individuals will persuade them to sleep, breaking down their spirits pieces by pieces,…

Social Formations and Their Representations in Society as Seen Through Music This paper will argue that Bessie Smith’s song “Young Woman’s Blues” and The Supremes’ song “Where Did Our Love Go?” exhibit both hegemonic and counter-hegemonic components through their reflections of sexist and racist ideologies that existed during their respective eras. Smith released “Young Woman’s Blues” in 1926 which was during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in which black people were able to create their…

Throughout history, war antagonists transformed their concern, empathy, and anger into emotional poetry, visual art, or music. Although war culture typically fell into the pro-war category, the Vietnam War’s musical culture was different from other wars in that its song fell into the anti-war category because of the negative sentiment towards the war that new technology and the media were perpetuating. Rock and Roll eventually became knows as the “weapon of cultural revolution”, as it influenced…

Where did that come from? The history of Rock and Roll can be traced back to the first part of the 20th century. Although the specific lineage is clouded in a purple haze, it is an undeniable link. In one part of the country, mountain music, known as hillbilly music, was working its way out of the Catskill mountain range and into local record stores and radio stations. In the deep south, mostly around the Mississippi river delta, deals with the devil were being made to make blues the most…

Throughout history their has been a cultural divide between class, race and social status within communities all over the world. Berry Gordy was a man of significant influence in the 20th Century who began to change some of the stereotypical opinions through the Country and eventually the world. The importance of people like him brings out some key factors of the entertainment era that changed history, slowly entering into a new phase. While the social and cultural impacts through the 1950s -…