Music genres

The fifties music had a great selection of music, artist and genres. These many genres included new ones like rock and roll to classics like country. The fifties had great artists such as the King of pop, Elvis Presley, and Patti Page. This decade also had many popular song that were listened to such as “Tennessee Waltz.” The fifties had many different genres of music. It ranged from rock and roll to folk music. Rock and roll was a genre of music people listened to. Originating in the…

The 1950’s- 1960’s saw a big change in society, as well as in the constant growing music industry. In the States and the Uk, people were still holding onto many aspects of the past: -World War 2 for example, and the crisis that many people went through, which many artists in future decades used and were inspired by different social and cultural events which gave inspiration to make some of the most well known songs in classic rock in the 80’s: for example: the song “one” by Metallica- which is…

geographical lines. This major music genre has spawned many kinds of rock such as: hard, soft, acid, metal, Southern, jazz, blues, punk, pop, gospel, etc. as listed on Wikipedia website of List of rock genres. (Wikipedia.org). According to our textbook, The World of Music, rock and roll was influenced by "R & B and country and western - one especially black, the other white." (123). The original rock and roll musicians have built the foundation of this genre and greatly influenced today's…

technology that made music more accessible at an instant, it is not often when a student is found without headphones or earbuds. Students who choose to listen to music while studying will more than likely listen to their preferred genre, and this may or may not impact their studying. Attention and the effects of listening to music while studying have been intensely researched over recent years. Researchers and psychologists have conducted several studies to determine whether listening to music…

Music has the power to change lives. It allows people the freedom to express themselves in ways that is normally not possible and thus making people more themselves which in turn changes a culture. There comes a time in every generation where a pop star icon emergis. A true pop icon will be someone who is very influential to the music industry and to the culture. This individual will also be someone who has the potential to go down in history as one of the greatest. Among the list of influential…

many slaveholding plantations and camps in the American South. Within these slaveholding nations there was an emergence of African American music that helped pave and shape the musical style of early blues and spirituals. When listening to early slave era music you can hear certain elements or Africanisms that make connections to early blues and spiritual music such as the call-and-response style. Songs like “Daniel,” performed by Georgia Sea Island Singers (Week 1 Lecture pg. 17) depict the…

all the way to the people who produce music for their shows. They requested for them to send songs from all over the musical spectrum. From the staff, they gathered around three hundred songs to put on the ballot. NPR then conducted a ballot that allowed listeners to vote. They also gathered a panel of musicians from a wide array of musical genres. It was important to have musicians to vote on the songs too because they have a different perspective on music than the listeners do. The listeners…

In this essay I will be talking about the connections between two different psychological thrillers. The two movies I have chosen are, Shutter Island directed by Martin Scorsese and Butterfly effect directed by Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber. Both movies have significant differences and similarities which made it a good choice to compare them both using filming techniques. Shutter Island is a film that’s main character is Leonardo DiCaprio, this involves himself as Andrew Laeddis, at the Shutter…

our group consisted of me, Chris, Jeremiah and Onur. The film’s genre is both comedy and action, with the setting being in a school. Throughout the production we set goals to make sure our trailer was unique. Our production was aimed at the 13 -21 year age group, targeting the B-D social groups, in addition to the Aspirer psychographic group. Our production was more targeted at the male audience, as it utilises the violence/action genre. To attract this specified target audience we have used…

in the cinematography, plots, and music/sound of each genre. Though there are many similarities, it’s very easy to find multiple differences as well. The western genre of film includes movies such as “Stagecoach” and “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”. Clint Eastwood and John Wayne were two very famous actors in western films. On the other hand, horror movies include “Psycho” and “Frankenstein”. The two are closer than you may think when you break down each genre. The cinematography of both…