Using Music to Teach Ethos Introduction After teaching high school English reading and writing for four years, life led me to apply for a position teaching English at a state university. I was hired as an adjunct faculty member, but in my eyes, I was basically a utility man in the Major Leagues. The brief hour-long meeting with the adjunct coordinator was my first exposure to rhetoric and anything related to it. I knew what a rhetorical question was—don’t we all?—and I had heard people
Character and Setting in Popular Music Whether it is through music or written literature, such as a novel, characters convey emotion and thought. The audience understands through the characters present. Just as we find characters we love we also find characters we despise. Setting is much the same. Whether the setting is explicitly given or simply implied, the audience has a picture in mind. Sometimes it is a place of great beauty and sometimes it is a place we would rather disregard. It is
Music is one type of media that has a profound effect on individuals. Over the years, music has changed a great deal, both in its musical sounds and in the lyrics sung in accompaniment to those sounds. Music lyrics are becoming more violent and sexually explicit than ever, and the violent portrayals in today’s music have a notably negative effect on its listeners. While music lyrics have become much more violent in recent years, the violence in music did not originate in hip-hop, rap, or rock.
commandment is more than usually relevant, with the rise of popular or mass culture, which of necessity affects many Christians. But all Christians are concerned with popular secular culture, whether or not we admit to or are an active part of it. We need to not only decide how to interact with popular culture on the most obvious level, but also what to do with it when it enters into our sacred places and worship services. Popular music is one of the most pervasive elements of secular mass culture
being unfairly censored. One such form that is often overlooked as art is music. “Music is probably the most censored of all art forms”(The Economist; p 73) There are hundreds of artists who have been unfairly censored, ranging from popular music from artists such as Eminem, 2 Live Crew, and NWA, to classical music, such as Mozart’s Figaro. However unfair and unconstitutional this censorship is, the fact is that questionable music and lyrics are encouraging impressionable young children to follow their
When country music began in America, there were no professional musicians. The typical musician sang only to entertain himself, his family or at local events. There is evidence of square dance-like events as far back as the 1830s (with origins in European country dancing). At first, most country music was either sung by itself or played on a lone fiddle or banjo. A good fiddler was a very popular person and was often asked to perform at events ranging from weddings to cattle drives. There was no
the most influential popular music group of the rock era. They affected the post-war baby boom generation of Britain, the United States and many other countries during the 1960s. Certainly they are the most popular group in rock history, with global sales exceeding 1.1 billion records. While they were originally famous for merseybeat, or what some labelled light-weight pop music which provoked complete hysteria in young women. Their later works achieved a combination of popular and critical attention
Rock Music and Creativity As the reader may verify by looking at my name, I originate from Cyprus, a Greek island in the Mediterranean Sea. As I grew up in a Greek environment, Greek music predominated in my listenings with a glimpse of classical music added when my studies in the piano encouraged it. My short stay in the States has, apart from many other things, introduced me to rock music. According to Google.com, "rock 'n' roll can be defined as a genre of popular music originating in
the day a child is born, she is already exposed to music. One is welcomed into the world by the gentle voice of her mother singing lullabies, and as the years go by, one continues to be exposed to the lyrics and melodies of different songs. Everywhere one goes one can hear music playing, whether it be in the mall, on TV, online, etc. Once one reaches her teenage years, it is as though her earphones never leave her ears. Music has become very popular among the younger generations, particularly the millenials
her brother. Society’s rape culture creates and sustains a standard of feminine weakness embedded within popular culture. While this means society is saturated with this toxic environment, it also supports social acceptance of these “norms”. Pop music’s public acceptance of rape culture has made it impossible for significant change to ever occur. “Rape culture” is the society where jokes, TV, music, advertising, laws, words and imagery make violence against women and sexual coercion seem so normal that
Grammys, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989; she appeared in 16 feature films and several shorts between 1938 and 1978; she performed occasionally on Broadway, including in her own Tony-winning one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music in 1981-1982; and she sang and acted on radio and television. Adding to the challenge of maintaining such a career was her position as an African-American facing discrimination personally and in her profession during a period of enormous social change
Edi K. THE MUSIC INDUSTRY – GLOBALIZING IN MANY WAYS The music industry is in a time of growth at this very moment. The environment for its growth has been increasing rapidly on many geographical boundaries and has been established through information technology and Internet. In this paper I will analyze how the music industry not only has been affected by Globalization as an economic institution but also that it has become a worldwide-globalized commodity. First, I will begin by analyzing how the
hear the term “music” they are likely to respond with a fresh singer, band, or genre of “pop” music. Often times society places their opinion of classical music and popular music on completely different wavelengths of importance in the world. The modern perception of classical vs. popular music has led to a heavily decreasing audience for classical groups and performances, a desire for repetitive and simple melodies, and a negative stigma against classical music’s importance. When music began to become
recent surge in this genre of music, liked by many people who find themselves not being typical, mainstream teens. However, Pop Punk is an oxymoron in itself. Pop is very mainstream, it is constantly being overplayed on every radio station, yet liking Pop Punk music is considered to be not mainstream. As any kind of music, it can help people diminish their emotions or help strengthen them. Whichever the case, Pop Punk music is always put on the back burner for popular tastes. The people who like it
within the culture of popular music is an issue that has been discussed for many years as it can be a huge selling point, it can cause society to either loathe or love a performing artist on how 'authentic' their persona and music is. Moore (2002) brings forward this idea in the article ‘Authenticity as Authentication’: "...ask what (piece of music, or activity) is being authenticated, in this article I ask who”. What he means by this is that we do not base our opinions on music being authentic but
The Hollywood music industry has a tendency to emulate the idea that musical bands or artists express “their” individual thoughts and beliefs through the music they produce and more importantly the lyrics they preform. From gangster rappers portraying a tough or thug lifestyle in their dress, actions, and lyrics, to various boy bands constantly being portrayed as sensitive heart throbs singing countless love ballads. However, when it comes to these “individual identities” they are often nothing more
orchestrator, bandleader, and pianist, is considered to be the greatest composer in the history of jazz music and one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. He composed over 2000 works and performed numerous concerts during his musical career. A compilation of some of his most popular music is collected on a CD called "The Popular Duke Ellington." Ellington personally created most of the music played by his orchestra. He often wrote pieces for specific players with distinctive musical styles
Music videos have become a huge part of the music industry, acting as a marketing tool that adds a visual component to recorded music. The first music video was introduced as an “illustrated song” in 1894 by Edward B. Marks and Joe Stern (Indiefilm, 2011). The duo hired an electrician and performers to bring their single "The Little Lost Child" to life. Series of still images were projected on to a screen, while the duo played their song simultaneously (Indiefilm, 2011). Since then, music videos
of jazz which in return helped with the formation of popular music. Blues jazz songs and blues singing, aided as a standard and inspiration for songwriters and singers. Popular musicians hence, copied the three dimensions of the blues; (1) the physical performance of classical blues singers, (2) its feeling style and (3) its form. The “blues” style was fostered in early-twentieth- century popular music and was least influenced by European music. The vocals of the blues influenced both equally the
Censorship Gone Too Far Seven Works Cited Have you ever walked into a music store and seen those parental advisory stickers on most of todays' popular music? Or have you seen those TV ratings on the top left corner of your favorite shows? How about the ratings on your favorite video games? I'm sure you have, but do you really know what those so-called harmless stickers, and images do to the world of entertainment and your freedom of expression for that matter? A recent craze to