Imagine working your whole life and being so dirt poor you struggle to live in a cruddy apartment. Depending on how rich you started out being, and how popular you became, that’s how it was in the sixties and still is today (although it’s a little better) in the music industry. Iggy Pop is a musician and song writer from the sixties. He was the lead vocalist in The Stooges band and has done solo work recently, as well as been a radio jockey for the past few years, having his own air time with the Iggy Confidential. He is from Michigan, but he works in London now. Jim Osterberg, more commonly known as Iggy Pop, was asked to do a speech at the John Peel Lecture in 2014; in his speech there, he used flashbacks and allusions to get his message across: Capitalist societies, like here in the USA, hurt and continue to hurt the musicians and song writers in the music industry. He doesn’t flashback in chronological order, but piecing it together, he tells of being a boy, of being in school, and of growing up into this capitalist society, of his …show more content…
I think he clearly explained how capitalist societies, like here in the USA, hurt and continue to hurt the musicians and song writers in the music industry by referring to what they did to him and bands and musicians he knew and using examples of when what he’d experienced and noticed since being a little boy. I mean, Iggy is 70 years old now and has only been receiving royalties for about 4 years now, from selling out in the sixties so that his music could and would be produced and marketed. And to further prove that it’s the capitalist society, Iggy has money now, and the same stuff that happened in the sixties as far as sales is still happening today, he says, maybe even a little worse. The powerful, emotional effect of his speech was felt throughout the crowd and the audiences watching from
I was twelve when I first heard the name “Kanye West”. He was featured in a song I rather liked at the time called “Forever” and whilst discussing the song with my friend one afternoon I remarked:
The story is mostly told in chronological order except there some are flash backs. When they tell about some events in the past it isn’t a person talking, it is put into third person omniscient instead. “When Gideon Crumb first came to London the city was still ruled by the Scriven”(150) This quote is when a character is telling what happened to him in the past but instead of him talking, When I first came to London…, it is being told in non-Dialogue so it is like you are traveling back to the past in the story.
-Hebdige, Dick, “In Poor Taste: Notes on Pop,” chapter in Modern Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Pop (New York: ICA & London: MIT Press, 1988) pp. 77-85
The movie ‘From Mambo to Hip-Hop’ is a great documentary about a revolution in the entertainment industry. It talks of evolution on Salsa music and Hip-Hop culture in suburbs of New York. South Bronx is a ghetto neighbourhood. The people living in the area are challenged economically. There is a record of high cases of violence that exist in the streets due to high crime rate and drugs being traded as a means of survival (Gordon, 2005). Most of the people living in the area are descendants of African immigrants who could trace their origin in the Caribbean islands with a large number Latin American population too.
The song I chose is called “Juicy” by Biggie Smalls, the title seems misleading but it actually related to the song because the melody was taken from another song called juicy fruit. It could have more of a meaning that he had some information or story that he wanted to tell because juicy could also mean secret or interesting, telling people how he grew up on the streets as Christopher Wallace. The main topic of the song is biggie talking about how people doubted him and how he grew up on the streets as a poor kid. He talks about how his life has changed and how he had nothing to having everything. When I first heard the song I thought it had a good beat and the lyrics flowed together, even if you do not really listen to the words the first time it is still a catchy song. The song also makes you understand how he grew up on the streets not having much and turning his life “from negative to positive” as he says in this song.
The story starts with him as a old man thinking back to his memories of his childhood. Out of his earliest memories,
“You Was Right” by Lil Uzi Vert is fairly easy to understand lyrically. The essence of the song deals with unfaithfulness in a relationship as well as the aftermath. Lil Uzi Vert spends a large portion of the song admitting his mistakes to his presumed girlfriend in hopes of making things right between them. The song starts off with the hook, which rests upon the premise of how Lil Uzi Vert should have stayed loyal rather than taking another girl home with him. For example, he says, “You was right, I was wrong” (6) in an attempt to console his girlfriend and apologize. Following the hook, the first verse centers on Lil Uzi Vert’s riches due to his success as a rapper. He ties that in to his relationship by expressing how he wants to share his wealth with his girlfriend. At this stage in the song, Lil Uzi Vert is attempting to win his girlfriend back with his money and general success as a rapper. The hook then repeats itself to indicate that the argument between Lil Uzi Vert and his girlfriend is still continuing. The second verse signifies an escalation in their conflict, as he says, “You just locked the door, so I gotta text you” (42). His girlfriend is refusing to even listen
The narrator does not move chronologically, contrarily, but uses small flashbacks to tell his point, leading up to the actual visit of the blind man where he then tells the story in a present tense. This lets the author seem like he is actually telling the story in person, reflecting on past occurrences of his life when necessary. His tone however, is a cynical, crude, humorous tone that carries throughout the story. The word choice and sentences are constructed with simple, lifelike words, which makes the reader sense the author is really telling the story to them.
The subject of this writing, is on a man who changed music; a man on the level of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison. This individual is Kurt Donald Cobain from the revolutionary grunge/rock band, Nirvana. While some people would never consider Cobain to hold a major role in the shaping of our music and culture today, they haven’t taken the time to look around. Many people overlook the fact that music played a huge role in the lives of Americans during the 90’s. Someday history books will probably
Hip-Hop’s criticism of George W. Bush is a good example of hip-hop’s reflection of Black public opinion. The Republican candidate who already had a low approval rating of 57% amongst African-Americans received an even lower approval rating after his lackluster efforts to support Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 (Jones, 2003; Cillizza & Sullivan 2013).
Adolescents and young adults have been disregarding the rules of the older generation and sparking up arguments since time could tell. One of the forerunners for this teen-angst filled defiance was none other than the king of outcasts, Kurt Cobain, lead singer and songwriter for Nirvana. Cobain was a trailblazer ready to defy the Baby Boomers and all that the tired generation saw to be important; Cobain pushed against many traditional structures but few more relevant than sexism and the mainstream music industry. Cobain rallied his army of misfits, labeled Generation X, to also stand against the sexists and the money-grubbing music bosses. Although Cobain didn’t do so by leading rallies or picket-marches, he found his rebellious essence through writing strange, contentious, and confusing music. With this in mind, it’s easy to say that Kurt Cobain was a model for Generation X; however, he is most notable as a rebel writer that expressed his resistance to sexism and to the music industry through his unconventional writing, mixed-music styles, and controversial songs.
Roth uses a series of flashbacks in order to convey a sense of chaos. Flashbacks are set within flashbacks and "the central plot- what happens to the Swede [and his family]- is set among smaller... subplots or partial plots- [what happens to the Swede's brother, their parents, and the narrator]" (). The novel begins at a 45th high school reunion attended by the narrator, Nathan Zuckerman. At this reunion in 1995, Zuckerman meets one of his old classmates Jerry Levov, who tells him about his recently deceased older brother Swede Levov. Jerry informs Zuckerman about the Swede's traumatic life after his daughter's involvement in the Vietnam anti war movement and the rest of the novel is compiled of Zuckerman's posthumous recreation of the Swede's life. As Zuckerman gets into the Swede's story, it appears as if everything is from the point of view of the Swede, whether it's reading about his thoughts as he watches an action, his emotions as he recounts an event or his tortured mind as he flashes back and re lives an event. These flashbacks and transitions from the reunion to the scenes in the Swede's life to the Swedes t...
This article demonstatres how important Kurt Cobain was both as a rock and roll icon and a philosopher. His songs which he recorded himself are still popular today, over 20 years after his death. The author argues how Cobain influences other young artists and his effect on the direction of the music industry.
After a rough day, when people come home from work, they need something that will make their day better. Any music helps to release people from their everyday lives. For some it is like going on vacation, or a home away from home. It not only gives strength, hope, but it helps relieves stress. Music is essential to everyday life in this world. People have become what they listen to. “The most important requirement of popular music is that is must appeal to a large number of people” (Yudkin 284). Pop country music is one of America’s favorite genre’s to listen to. Its roots began in rural America. Looking back, country music has drastically evolved and changed moving away from its original sound. Pop country is what has taken over much of the country genre. The joining of country and pop began in
The author even goes as far as comparing it to a cult because so many people are becoming these” iPod people”. An example is when he says “get on the subway and you’re surrounded by a bunch of stepford computers staring mid-space as if anaesthetized by technology”. Society did not used to be like that. Sullivan also says in his article that music used to be something that was shared. Today, you rarely see people sharing the experience of music like they used to; you see little white wires hanging out of people’s pockets and ears. Sullivan expresses that it is not just music that is isolated; it is almost everything on a daily basis. The author writes a convincing article to remind us to keep your mind, eyes and ears open. There is a whole lot going on around you that you’re missing out