Americans Ian Songs Relevant Today

One day our songs will be history. One day someone will look at those lyrics I have listed above and see references to our culture and how we lived our lives. But for today we look at yesterday’s songs and see history. We listen for hints into how people felt and what was going on. We look for songs like “Your Dog Loves My Dog”sang by the Nashville Quartet. This song demonstrates some of the frustrations of those living during the civil rights movement. Even though they lived across the street from one another, a traditional black family never knew their traditional white family neighbors. Not because they could not speak or could not walk over the way, but because it was not acceptable.

Black oppression was around for over a hundred years. The idea of white supremacy was concocted in order for the white race to feed their ego. Key figures, including Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou, wrote about their experiences in the point of view of an oppressed African American struggling with racism. Langston Hughes’s poem “I, Too, Sing America” and Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” were written in response to the hatred in the white man’s heart. Although these two poems were made with similar goals, they have elements that cause them to contrast.

Every day, a person will see celebrities on television, talk to peers in school or at work, or have encounters with strangers on the street, and automatically make assumptions on what their life must be like. Many times, they envision the other person’s life to be something bigger and better than their own life and that vision causes them to become jealous. That jealousy, in effect, can consume them and cause them become unhappy with the assets and characteristics that they have. People can become so discontented with their lives that they would be willing to give up everything they have to start over or have a different life with different problems. The way that the main characters in Jane Martin’s “Beauty” describe their lives as

This must be my dream by the 1975 follows the story of a girl who may have impacted the life of the artist of the song. The song starts off in a positive manner as the singer mentions that he has found a girl who he thought would rearrange his world. The singer uses lyrics in the second verse that indicate to the audience that he found out that he was wrong that the girl that the song is about did not put any effort into the relationship or perhaps did not care about him. These lyrics include; “Pipe down, you’re no lover, its failing cos’ you want it to” and “Well, I thought it was love but I guess I must be dreaming”.

As we think about our younger years when we lived with no sense of time, we had no idea how fast life would pass by while we were sitting around sipping strawberry wine. The friends we hung out with, the crushes we held onto and the stars in the sky full of endless possibilities, we never imagined that those moments would fade into a distant part of our history. We grew up in a world much different than today and though we're thankful for so many things, we all have a special song that takes us back to those carefree nights and the feelings those memories

We too Sing America written by Deepa Iyer, brings to light the social and racial inequality that consumed America after 9/11, targeting South Asians, Muslims, Arabs and Sikhs. In fact, post 9/11 is a time where many communities faced and continue to face discrimination from different corportaions; such as, children being arrested in schools because of their religion and the federal government engaging in searches of Muslims at public places.

“I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman, accentuates his inherent attitude toward America which is also an element of his quintessential of human life. Whitman glorifies what America has based its faith on which is the ingeniousness of labor. It expresses Whitman’s love for America, its liveliness, variety, and the monumental achievements due to the ingeniousness of all its people. The poet writes that he hears “varied carols” from all the people contributing to the life and civilization of America. Whitman uses “delicious singing” as a metaphor to dramatize the individual passion and contribution of a mother to their homeland. He also personifies “America singing” in the first line by this it’s taken in as that us or we the people as one

Everyone has two sides of themselves, the inner self and the outer self; in other words, the mind and the body. The inner self would be the mind, thoughts, and external ideas; the outer self would be the sensuous, flesh, and external nature. From the poems, Song of Myself by Walt Whitman and Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes, shows the individual’s thought on America. The two poems explain the different sides of America yet the writers are very passionate on their views own views and speak on behalf the people.

In this time frame, “beauty and looks were not believed to go together” (Munro 1). Grace and Avie are two farm girls attending university, “male members of their families had joked that they ought to be able to nab somebody” (1). These jokes were formed upon the appearance of the girls. The mentality of the society proves that the intellect of a female is dismissed and disrespected as beauty holds more value. Females were expected to go to university in order to find a husband oppose to furthering their education, while an educated male is respected, proving that their education was not of value.

Society loves this song, she made a song to where people can take a moment and look back at the good or bad past. “When We Were Young,” is a lyrical song. It has a musical rhythm and it is so emotional, that it

In the novel, Things Fall Apart, beauty is shown in a very different way. Such as Hazel and Augustus. They see beauty in there own ways such as, that they have cancer. Augustus sees Hazel as the most beautiful person ever because she is different in her very own way. As well as Hazel seeing Augustus as beautiful person in his very own way. Both of these people see each other as beautiful because no one else does. There are stereotypes that go around with people saying that cancer is contagious and that no one would love them. As for Augustus and Hazel they love each other because they are different in their own ways. They will always be together no matter what. They will stick together because no one else would want to be with them.

Even without beauty pageants, the amount of pressure girls feel to conform to society’s standards of beauty is immeasurable. When girls participate in pageants, the pressure is multiplied as they trot around on stage being judged on only their outward appearance. “The message these little girls take away is that their natural beauty isn’t enough- that their

Her main reason to write this song was to get her feelings out about her parents’ divorce. In an interview she states, “It’s about my parents getting a divorce and about being that kid stuck in the middle and relaying information back and forth.” She wrote about her parents asking about how the other one is doing. She also wrote about having to go back and forth from one parent’s house to another. Many children go through this every day, and it is a tough time in their life. I went through my parents divorcing, and when I heard this song, it just clicked with me and helped me understand more of what I felt. I think she also wrote this song to help others who go through this with their families.

This very slow song, so in my opinion I think it reinforces a sense of bittersweet, because even though she mentions how she wants to be remembered for the good things that she did she also mentions death and regrets in her song.

This speech is about a model called Cameron Russell where she admits that she won “a genetic lottery” because of her beauty: she is tall, pretty and an underwear model. In this speech, she talks about how industries transform her looking highly seductive at barely 16 years old. Also, In this speech Cameron talks about how she looks simple as a normal person like us. Cameron says that all those magazine and internet photos of her are just Photoshop, and they are not actual photos of her since she also has imperfections like everyone else. She explains that people should not be ashamed of themselves, because even the people, who we think are perfect, feel even more insecure most of the time, including herself.