I chose to write my paper on Darius Rucker because when I was younger my uncle used to play songs by Hootie & the Blowfish to me all the time. My favorite song of theirs is “I Only Want To Be With You” released in 1994 from the Cracked Rear View album. I still listen to their old albums although I prefer the songs of Darius Rucker now, as a solo country music artist, more than Hootie & the Blowfish. He went from an American rock band to a solo country singer and has been on the charts ever since.
artists who have taken this stigma out of the way. The main example that would be in society today would be Darius Rucker but he did not start out as a country artist. He originally gained his fame from being the lead singer in a rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, then he went to the R&B and finally six years later he signed a record deal in Nashville. He made the first black country artist to ever reach the number 1 spot on the Hot Country Songs chart since Charley Pride did it in
As of 2015, startling statistics show that 82% of ‘black teens’ believe that racial discrimination will be a problem for their generation (Victoria M. Massie,2016), despite the decrease in social discrimination since the first Indigenous girl to attend a ‘all white school’, it is still known that racism still exists within youth’s society. Therefore, it is a privilege to share with you Paul Dunbar’s symbolic poem about racial discrimination, a youth issue that exists today and needs to be brought
Carrie Packwood Freeman and Debra Merskin are the authors of “Having it his Way: The Construction of Masculinity in Fast-Food TV Advertising”. They describe how fast food restaurants across America use masculinity in their commercials to target the male population and get them to buy their food. Although I concede that fast food restaurants do use masculinity to target the male population, I also insist that they are also used to target the female population of America as well. The masculinity
Music has come a long way and everybody dances, listens, and sings to what we call music. In the past few years mainstream music has been overtaken by hip-hop and rap music. Though they have been criticized for its sexual lyrics and violent themes. People feel that that hip-hop music has an unhealthy focus on sexually-based themes and others feel that rap promotes violence against police officers and innocent citizens. Many artists are still making music that promotes neither of these ideas, but
In 1843, the first Minstrel Shows were being performed in the North when slavery had yet to be abolished in the South of the United States. African Americans, in the South, were treated as animals that should be controlled and used for work. People in the South which includes slave owners justified their harsh and inhumane treatment of African Americans by proclaim them as ignorant and unequal to themselves. The main interactions that many southern people had with African Americans were from a position
My essay is about music throughout the decades, I chose this topic because everyone loves music and can relate to it. I personally like the past decade music because I felt like they were more thought out, but there some songs I don’t mind listening to this day. I will answer some questions you might have been wondering or a least I hope I do. It might introduce you to new artist that you never heard about and make you start listening to new genres of music. My essay will show you how music has
how odd it was that a white man would choose to perform in this genre. Is country music a genre that has been appropriated so much by white artists that black artists abandoned the genre altogether? Darius Rucker, the former lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish has made the transition from platinum selling pop rock artist to country singer in the past few years. On a recent episode of Oprah, Darius sat on Oprah’s couch as she declared to her audience, “Country music is the real soul music!” Rucker’s
The Importance of Localism and Non-Profit College Radio “Radio is the salvation of the world…” Non-profit college radio is, by its nature, a medium dedicated to the local community and the public interest. The media landscape in the new millennium has brought about a homogenized world of radio. Large conglomerates like Clear Channel and Infinity Broadcasting own thousands of radio stations. Clear Channel designates one programming director for a particular format in an area, giving sometimes