The Music In West Side Story

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The music in West Side Story expresses the real feeling of how people felt about each other from The Jets Song” to “ Officer K”. If you listen closely to the songs lyrics you can hear about topics of segregation and racism in them changing the meaning of the songs and the whole musical. Just like the song “ A Boy Like That” Anita sings the lyrics that goes “ one of your own kind/ Stick with your own kind” (YOUTUBE). In the song she indicates that she doesn't approve of Maria’s choice of falling in love with Tony ,an american boy ,“ He'll murder your love/ He murder mine” especially when the gang he was involved killed her brother. She is saying how can you chose someone who is in a gang that killed your brother if he can murder someone then

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