Rock and roll

Introduction to the Glam Rock movement Glam Rock is a musical category as well as a cultural movement that developed in 1970 in Britain performers are most distinguished from other musicians by their theatricality and public personas wore tight fitting and bright costumes, extravagant shoes and usually makeup androgynous on stage performances, stereotypically masculine and feminine music often touched on taboo subjects like sexuality and gender identity fearless to to step over any social…

Rock music gained popularity in the 1950’s as “underground, antiestablishment, protest music” (Willoughby). This was the music for the “rebels” and quickly became a fad. From rock, derived rockabilly. Rockabilly is cross between country music and rock. Far from the previous genres mentioned, Rap/Hip-Hop also became popular during the later years of this time period. As a form…

The song “100 years” is very inspiring. In the song he tells you, “Half time goes by, suddenly you’re wise. Another blink of an eye 67 is gone,” so he is basically saying that life goes by quick and someone shouldn’t waste their time on something stupid. As the song goes on, he keeps repeating “I’m _ _ for a moment.” During the song, he seems as if he’s fine with getting older, he’s wishing for another moment once he gets to 99. Most of his emotions are joyful, but towards the end the music…

Michael Joseph Jackson, known as the ‘King of Pop’ was an American singer, songwriter, recording producer, dancer and actor born on August the 29 1958 and died on June 25 2009 at age 50, which left a great impact on popular culture. Jackson’s music videos are widely popular to all ages of people due to least amount of explicit language and actions. Through the discussion of target audience and values, the lyrics, symbolic codes of the people in “Man in the Mirror and the different…

Fricke from Rolling Stone said “Jimi Hendrix was many things – monster rock sex god, guitar genius, acid spiritualist, master improviser.” Jimi Hendrix is from Seattle, Washington who worked as a guitarist for artists such as Little Richard and the Isley Brothers. Jimi Hendrix is widely known for being one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music and being a pioneer for the genres of blues and rock. Jimi Hendrix’s sound was rooted in blues but blended various…

There are a lot of reasons why the 80s was important (and the fashion wasn't that bad). There were a lot of great songs being released during that time, in my opinion I think the music was an important part of the 80s. A lot of beats that were being made during that time changed the music scene till this day. For example; I listen to a lot of hip hop and I've noticed a lot of artists use similar beats to the 80s a lot of music now a days are using beats that are different much like the 80s and…

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 was heard from…

I am Vietnamese who was born in the last years of the 20th century. Then, then 2000s was the era which the culture of pop music was automatically instilled in each person the day they started to listen to music. The modern pop music is one of the fastest growing genres in the music industries. And undoubtedly, pop quickly spreads its affections to the Vietnamese audience. Just the same as other people at my age, I used to despite older music, considered them out of fashion and boring. However,…

Since amendments were made to the ‘British Nationality law’ in the 1940s, people from the commonwealth islands (including India) had been immigrating to the UK for nearly 20 years – this meant that people of the Hindu and other religions had already introduced these faiths into British society and the world was already changing to be more cultural before the Beatles choice to follow them. The band only created higher popularity for these faiths amongst the population. Also their views on…

Evaluation Essay On April 18th, 2008, Taylor Swift released her third single of her album Fearless, “You Belong with Me”. Swift merges pop, country, and 90’s rock which can be seen from the variety of instruments throughout her song. The steady beat consists of banjos, fiddles, guitars, pianos, electric guitars and more. Swift also depicts herself as a hopeless romantic and searching for the love and appreciation from her next-door neighbor, whom she has a crush on. All throughout the song,…