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A Brief History Of Ledd Zeppelin And Its Musical Impact
1203 Words - 5 Pages.... Around The Clock," to The Beatles' frightening "Revolution
9."
While these two examples may seem completely different, they are not as
distant as one might think. Nearly all music from the '60s and '70s was bred
from its earlier ancestors. Music has been constantly evolving, and during the
two decades in question, it underwent a radical change like never before.
The New Yardbirds
In early 1968 the music group The Yardbirds was in shambles. Their last,
and half-put --together album "Little Games" was a total flop and the band had
to struggle to have the release of the album in the UK stopped. On March 30,
the group allowed a taping of their concert in Madison Square G ....
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The Music Of Generation X
967 Words - 4 Pages.... different tones
and concerns they convey onto society and my generation.
The first song I would like to analyze is "Jane Says" by Jane's
Addiction. The main theme in "Jane Says" is escaping drug use and addiction.
This song is basically set in a low class area. Jane is a girl who has had a
heroine addiction. Her personal boundaries have been invaded and she wants out
of the habit, "I'm gonna kick tomorrow…". She goes through depression and
withdrawal, "She gets mad/And she starts to cry." Then the songs continues by
talking about loneliness. Drug addiction is often the background for much of
the music in today's society. People tend to idolize famous people and wh ....
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Freire; Teaching In Our Society, And Wu-Tang Clan
812 Words - 3 Pages.... of the game. It would also look at the players
and place them according to skill and avoid what society thinks of them.
The player's reputation off the court would be ignored and their skill in
the game of basketball would be observed. This is what Freire means when he
says look from a outsider's point of view. Look at things how no one else
look at them.
Freire would present to his students the idea of looking at things
differently and would not even restrict the students to an essay. He would
probably except anything such as a poem, paper, or a picture. As long as
the perception does not fit the one that society shows us. The essay that
is shown below is about a rap ....
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Stone Temple Pilots
796 Words - 3 Pages.... in
september 1992 and it went platinum. it was followed by a second release PURPLE
two years later which also was a big hit and with the Herion addictions aside,
Stone Temple Pilots is one of the best bandson the planet- or any planet..Early
labels of Pearl Jam Wannabees or Nirvana soundalikes have long since disspated,
and Weiland and the boys have created a wall of sound all their own..Sometimes
an all outfrenzy of driving energy- (Sex Type Thing, Meatplow, Trippin on a
Holein a Paper Heart), to the more subdued tracks of Creep, Pretty Penny, and
Big Empty. The STP trademark sound can be best heard on Plush, and Interstate
Love Song..Classic Rock and Roll for the new gen ....
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Rock Music
1151 Words - 5 Pages.... attract white teenagers. Disc jockey Alan Freed was the one who introduced this music and later gave it the name of Rock n' Roll. Record companies distributed records played by whites but composed by blacks. Whites were frustrated because there weren't any white artists, and they didn't want the blacks to be the stars until Bill Haley appeared with his "Rock Around the Clock". In this decade, Elvis Presley introduced a music that was sexual-suggestive, and outraged many adults of that time. In time, he changed the style of the music by adopting a country and western style and became a national hero. By the end of this decade and the start of the next, Rock n' Roll started to ....
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The Singing School: An American Tradition
1196 Words - 5 Pages.... 1640, however, that the Puritan ministers in America
made their own translation of the psalms. The Bay Psalm Book was the first book
printed in British North America and was widely used. The most distinguishing
feature of this book was its rhymed and metered English poetry. This allowed a
few tunes, having the same rhythms as the poetry, to be used as melodies for
many psalms. In addition, the text employed the vernacular, and consequently
promoted memorization. The ninth edition of the Bay Psalm Book, published in
1698, was the first edition published with tunes. This edition had printed the
letters F-S-L-M, representing the solmization syllables fa, sol, la, and mi,
under ....
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Early History Of The Pipe Organ
1567 Words - 6 Pages.... in use for several hundred years before the concept of
bellows, similar in concept and style to those of a blacksmith, came into use
with the organ. Numerous bellows were used to supply air to the wind-chest,
often being pumped in pairs by men. The disadvantages of this method of air
supply include the lack of consistent pressure, which leads to inconsistent
pitch and tuning; also, many people were required to operate the bellows since
there were upwards of twenty-four bellows per organ (Hopkins & Rimbault 35).
Also, with organs of this size, the bellows took up large amounts of space, thus
forcing the organ to be located in a fixed place, such as a church.
Up until the ....
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The Prodigy
1080 Words - 4 Pages.... National Dance Charts and to
no3 in the Gallup Top 40. 'Charly' inspired a string of copycat records,
and triggered the notoriously heated 'is rave dead' debate. Amid all the
furore it was easy to miss the fact that Charly was one of the most
successful dance records of the time, and far better than any of the
opportunist tunes that came in it's wake. Twenty-two year old Liam Howlett
is the musical force behind the Prodigy sound, although there are three
other members who contribute to the live performance - Maxim Reality,
Leeroy Thornhill and Keith Flint Liam was once the DJ for the London rap
act Cut To Kill, but he became disillusioned with the rap scence's
aggressive atti ....
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