Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

filmed in the modern day and age, when technology was something everyone had to have, and big corporations made up the bulk of businesses in our country. This can be seen from the very beginning of the film. The mixed discourse of “The King and C.E.O. of Denmark Corporation is dead” announces the kind of Shakespearean adaptation we are entering. “King” and “Denmark” represent the Shakespearean language that the characters will speak, while “C.E.O.” and “Corporation” proclaim the modern American…

The question whether hip-hop music has either improved or injured racial relationships is in itself truthful yet deceitful in both its positive and negative connotations. In recent years, there has been contention about rap music and its effect to racial associations. It appears that political and media groups are placing blame on hip-hop for the current witnessed increase in violence amongst the youth. This is based on the rivalry between the East Coast and West Coast regions where rappers…

life is not worth living." Without examining life, no change will ever come to people or cultures. Western Culture has developed over centuries, drawing on many archaic civilization’s qualities. Perhaps the most important influencer was that of Ancient Greece; a society that sought a balance, order, and harmony that people have emulated for thousands of years. The Greeks laid the foundations for Western Civilization with their formation of philosophy, history, democracy, and other elements that…

ago; at around 6000BC, as shown from the Bhimbetka rock shelters throughout India. The paintings depicted tribe members celebrating after a successful hunt. That was later followed with other cave drawings throughout the Western World such as in countries as Spain and France. Modern Indian dance was actually based on a very early manuscript, 'The Natya Shastra', which was written between 200BCE and 200BE.There is also evidence from Egyptian tomb paintings at about 3300 BC which evidently…

particular attention to the music on the album, the recording process and the impact and reactions of the Cuban public. In the year of 1997 the album BVSC was released and managed to sell 8 million copies. The album was produced by popular guitarist and film score composer Ry Cooder and featured 20 musicians. Ry Cooder had met Nick Gold, the world music producer who worked for World Circuit Records in 1996. Both Ry Cooder and Nick Gold had shared an interest in Malian and Cuban music. and as…

Typically, when people think of “rock music”, they would think of loud, hard hitting drums with fast, intricate guitar solos, and screaming vocals. People don’t usually think of slow, smooth, bluesy guitar playing when they think of rock music, but what most people don’t realize is that without the blues, musicians such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and even AC/DC would not exist. Blues music has had a dramatic influence the way rock music has, and is currently…

resonates throughout the memoir. Although from seperate countries, a genuine portrayal of the human experience and the universal question of media’s role in other countries are tackled in akin ways throughout the two novels.…

Egyptian culture are much more than what the western general public perceives. Romani culture is more than just being nomads that go wherever they please. They have their own set of values and traditions, just like any other culture, as do the Egyptians. Egyptian culture is very different than Romani culture, yet they are comparable. Their religion, geography, traditions, and some ideologies are extremely different, but some parallels can be drawn from their music and dance. Even though Gypsies…

Some of his most groundbreaking work was called “furniture music.” Furniture music pieces “are each fundamentally based on a short musical fragment, to be repeated ad lib (at one’s pleasure).”1 Furniture music is monotonous by design, with the purpose of fading into the background and creating a functional ambience for the space.2 This “functional” music runs counter to the traditional compositional goals of audience engagement and emotional journey. A more…

recitative is found in various genres of music, bringing to light the text of a piece. There are several different forms of recitative such as recitativo accompognato, recitativo secco, recitativo and recitative semplice. These forms of recitative follow the same suit, but vary from setting to setting. The recitative has been a monumental development for music in the seventeenth and eighteenth century that laid a foundation for vocal and instrumental music to be expanded upon in the coming…