Punk rock

1. Silvestre Revueltas was one of the most prominent figures of “mestizo realism” from the 20th century. Born in Durango, Mexico, Revueltas was a child prodigy who went on to study in Mexico and the U.S before having to return to home after his friend, and renowned composer, Carlos Chavez asked him to play for the Orquesta Sinfónica de Mexico. Afterwards, Revueltas went to Spain, which was undergoing a revolution, in order to participate in cultural activities of the Loyalist government.…

Music it is more than just noise it has a purpose. Music is here to calm you, entertain you. I will be talking about music and how it affects us and everything else. Music means sounds combined to make a melody that appeals to you. Music effects everything that include movies, dances, and just being with family and friends. How does music effect movies? Have you ever tried to find a movie that doesn’t have any music in it, if you have and you probably didn’t find any? You know why, because it…

Introduction Few individuals have changed the course of American Popular Music quite like the legendary Frank Sinatra. Arguably, this man contributed more to music and popular culture than any single entertainer in the business, and for a longer period of time. For six decades, Sinatra, commonly known as “the Chairman of the Board”, established new trends in the music business while reigning as one of the most iconic cultural icons of all time. This essay seeks to explore the influence Sinatra…

It was a dark scary night when I saw a really old building and that was made out of metal and was really rusty. I went up to the door and it was unlocked. I opened the door and there was a hole with a ladder in it, I went down the ladder and took out my flashlight. There was a lot of paths leading in all directions and I went down the first one I saw, but there was nothing down that path so then I went down the next path. There was nothing down that path so I came out of the building. I walked…

On February 11 at 10:30am, I attended Aggieland Saturday, an open house for prospective students, and observed the Aggie band play. The band played a total of 4 songs and the last song being the Aggie War Hymn. Unfortunately, the performance didn’t contain the entire aggie band as I expected, but rather members from all the necessary subgroups were present. The key instruments were aerophones, membranophones, and idiophone. The major aerophones consisted of: clarinets, piccolos, trumpets,…

creative, politicized rock of the 1960s into the massively popular, de-politicized rock of the 1970s as the Eagles.” Initially, the four original Eagles—Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Bernie Meisner, and Bernie Leadon were recruited as the backup band of Linda Ronstadt. After finishing the work with Linda Ronstadt, Don Henley and Glenn Frey, decided to found “Eagles” and recruited Bernie Meisner, and Bernie Leadon. After thinking, Eagles decided to focus on country rock and hard rock. In 1972, Eagles…

first documentary, One Direction: This Is Us. The film grossed nearly $70 million worldwide, that’s over half of the box office sales of all 26 of Elvis Presley’s films in the 1960’s. That’s a very impressive showing against the so-called “King of Rock and Roll!” (via Boxofficemojo.com, Elvis.net, and Modest…

experimenting with the style and fashion, “experimenting with the emergent medium for some time and arrived with stylish videos in hand” (Cateforis 54). Unlike American bands, these British bands had already adapted to a style suitable for television. After punk music, British bands kept the electronic instruments and “distinctions between automated and human performance were increasingly blurred” (Goodwin 32). At concerts, British bands played their already recorded electronic music,…

This includes: rock, psychedelia, and the electric guitar. Tropicalist ideas became the driving force behind the modernization of not only music, but the country’s national culture. The movement followed the best traditions of great composers of Bossa Nova through the incorporation of new information and references from its time. Tropicalism mixed rock, Bossa Nova, Samba, Rumba, Bolero, and Baiao. Its presence broke a lot of rigid barriers…

Jazz-Rock has been defined as music that has combined elements of both Jazz and Rock ‘N’ Roll, and is usually performed on amplified electric instruments (Dictionary.com). Jazz-Rock is often called fusion or cross over and is accompanied by bass lines, drumming styles and Rock music (Britannica.com). It tends to put an emphasis on electric instruments and dance rhythms and in the 1960s jazz tunes began to include Rock rhythms, those elements have contrasted and enhanced each other (Britannica).…