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R & B/Hip-Hop music has undergone a radical transformation over the last twenty-six years. The new millenniums of young artist have changed the way we listen and view music. In the early 1990’s R & B/Hip-Hop music or other music genre had a different composition, demographic prospective and conveyed different emotions compared to today. Music in the 90’s era was less instrumentally inclined compared to this new era of music (article). Music today is more about image, fashion, promoting sex and…

Throughout her career, the pop icon known as Madonna has been both widely influential and wildly controversial. Since her beginnings in the music industry, she has consistently made headlines, drawing the admiration of her most dedicated fans and the attention of curious onlookers. Lucy O’Brien’s book, titled “Madonna: Like an Icon” is an attempt at chronicling the pop singer’s life thus far in a “definitive biography”. This book is an in depth and interesting read on the reasoning and…

Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince, Curtis Blow and Biz Markie were no longer accepted in the rap music" (Toms, 2006, p1). Those rap artists were considered as roll models, because those rap artists relayed positive messages to their listeners (Toms, 2006, p1). "The majority of today's rap culture involves a lot of explicit material and negativities" (McGarrell). According to McGarrell, This new form of rap music glorifies big money, degrading of women, drugs, alcohol, and guns. Many rap artist…

door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” Using this philosophy, Johnny Cash rose to become one of the greatest country music artists of all time. "Feb. 26, 1932, J.R. Cash is born in the town of Kingsland, Cleveland County, Arkansas, to Ray Cash, a farmer, and Carrie Rivers Cash, who takes the family guitar on their travels." (www.johnnycash.com) At the age of three,…

attending high school due to his desire to pursue his dream. At that time, he only received 10,000 won as pocket money from his parents. He was independent teenager, where he did not rely on his parents’ support, he worked as part timer instead. His music career started since then, he and his band performed in many events. Before becoming a member of boyband 22051, he was a trainee singer. Experiencing various kinds of works and started working since early age built him into a good money…

ROCK MUSIC YEAR 8 ASSIGNMENT 2015- SEMESTER 1 PART 1: BON JOVI Early Years: John Francis Bongiovi was born on March 2nd, 1962 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and named after his father. Jon was raised by his parents Carol and John Bongiovi. Jon's passion for music began when his mother bought him an acoustic guitar at the age of 7. He struggled to play the guitar but recognised artists such as Elton John, Rush, Thin Lizzy, and his favourite Bruce Springsteen. By his early teenage years, Jon was…

Empire, contemporary Christian music is part of a movement created around the peak of Beatlemania. Originally referred to at “Jesus Music”, Christian Rock, Pop, and R&B had expanded into a multimillion-dollar business by the 1980s. This takeover of the music business was not without controversy, with contemporary Christian music being criticized for simple lyrics, repetitious chords, and having disingenuous motives. Well known for his Christian faith and using his music as a platform for social…

Rap/Hip-Hop is currently one of the largest music genres in today’s society. Marshall Bruce Mathers III, more commonly known as Eminem, is one of the most successful artist in the rap game with almost 150 awards (Wikipedia) to his name - one being the artist of the decade award; this almost certainly has to be accompanied with a sense of pride. During Eminem’s early career, he portrayed asshole like characteristics and would have taken that sense of pride and turned it into offensive pride. It…

women of all ages could relate to, lip gloss. Although, her flow wasn’t awful and her dance moves were on point, people didn’t quite know what to do with Lil Mama when she was first introduced to the mainstream media. She was a teenage girl caught in pop culture limbo, not quite bubbly enough, but not quite real enough for us to really care about either. Her style was very tomboyish,…

Most people would believe that young girls should not be exposed to some of Minaj’s images and videos because of their sexual nature, but the fact that she is proud of her curvy body has a positive implication about body image. Minaj herself has said that the media “can’t have only one type of body being glorified […] because it just makes girls even…