Post-punk

On February 27, 2017 officer Samuel Rosario and his partner responded to a domestic disturbance. A mother of two had called the police on her young daughter who had broken her glass table and assaulting her. As Rosario arrives to the scene, he walks to the front of the porch to confront the mother to get a statement of what had happened, next to her was a 19-year-old teen cleaning the shattered glass whom was the girl’s brother. Rosario questions the mother and tells her that her daughter will…

The New Edition was one of the premier R&B groups to exist. The group reached its height of popularity during the 1980s. They were the progenitors of the boy band movement of the 1980s and 1990s and led the way for groups like New Kids on the Block, The Boys, Boyz II Men, Hi-Five, Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. Their music was intrinsic and exemplified what R&B was during that time period. Their song’s, like “Hear Me Out” and even “Candy Girl”, were R&B songs that represented all I’ve spoken to.…

Seminole Hard Rock 2012 Kid Rock has succeeded in getting a career out of vivisections on the stage. To begin with: Kid Rock's concert was high energy -- he was moving around a lot, and the performance was very professional. The band was included of only best players. There was some fantastic guitar playing. For example, Stefanie Eulinberg banged away at her drums. A Kid Rock performance is one of the most intense things you might ever do. The probing thing is that, despite that I, and many…

The counterculture movement known as punk defies definition in any concrete terms. Beginning as a perverse fashion statement in the 1970s, punk quickly became something much more politically charged than many initially anticipated. It was a movement that defined itself through a series of negatives: it was more easily seen as what it wasn’t than what it was. Punk contrasted itself to the 1960s, the hippie movement, and the rock’n’roll scene that had established itself; it was opposed to the…

Movie, TV show, magazine, Internet and so on, everything you see from different media and different elements in these media such as the words, the images, the colors, the sounds, the angle of camera, are designed to make you think, sense and experience in a particular atmosphere (Beaton,2012). That is to say, artificial visual elements in different culture background could represent different meanings. Visual culture is to find out the connotation and denotation of them. Using a picture from an…

Motley Crue is a heavy metal band, with carefree lifestyle, that they shared with the world through their music. The members of the band were not only memorable on stage, but off stage as well. They lived a lifestyle that most people would not approve of, or deem socially correct. Yet, this lifestyle, similar to the style established by Led Zeppelin, benefited their career. Selling over 100 million albums worldwide, Motley Crue spread the heavy metal brand of music around the world. All of…

On October 25th, 2016, a venue named 506 Local on Franklin St, Chapel Hill, held a show featuring three punk rock artist. The opening act, Chastity, is a hardcore punk band created in 2015, hailing from Canada. The next set was performed by an all-female punk band formed in 2014, Cayetana, which is rather unique for the genre. Lastly, the headline band performed: a band named PUP, created in 2013 and also from Canada. The entirety of the show emitted a sense of community, openness, diversity,…

From the beginning of the Skinheads it wasn’t just about the nazi, white race, and the white supremacist groups. It all began in Kingston, Jamaica where the Rude boys originated from. To the immigrants of United Kingdom that changed from the Rude boys to the Mods. Then even further across the globe to the United States where it is more known as the Neo-Nazi skinheads. These groups are all apart of the skinhead subculture. The Rude boys “was originally used to describe the less fortunate…

Psychological Effects of Metal For a very long time now music has been used in many different means, whether it be entertainment or therapeutic. From dancing to escaping reality, music has many effects on the mind. I believe that within these effects, music holds more positive growth than negative. But what are some of the effects and who do they effect the most? More specifically, what are the effects of the heavy metal genre? Dr. Katrina McFerran has stated “Most young people listen to a…

Throughout the years music of many different kinds have been born. Their is pop, country, rap, and rock. Rock music was born and very popular in the 80’s. And through the years it has grown. One thing about rock music is that they are usually written by the band and not with help, and they tell a story about the bands life. Todays pop and rap are more so up beat and good songs, but they don’t always have a meaning behind them. Rock music is away to let go and tell people about yourself. And as…