Bruce Springsteen's 8-Track

The time capsule, an idea made into reality by humans, designed to contain artifacts or key items of the present age to be eventually opened by people living a century later or longer. What is the entire purpose of the time capsule in the first place? It can deliver a message to the society existing in the subsequent era or give information on the unique events or conditions of the specific location for knowledge intentions. The time capsule can also bring fun in the process of learning. Things like compact discs and fancy gadgets would provide entertainment along with understanding. Some interesting objects that a time capsule could contain would be cultural clothes, books to provide the history and information of the place and people, and pictures of everyday life in the designated location.

The artifact represents personal objects and meaningful moments, person influence on our own life. This is one of the assignment in our program to share our artifacts toward our colleagues and professors. This will take in more about different culture, uniqueness, identity and values of our schoolmates and how they reflected in their life.

While our parents offer themselves to help us grow as civilized human beings, one of the most important things they do is present to us our culture. As a small child, my parents introduced me to the world, and what a wonderful place it can or can’t be. Different traditions were taught to me throughout my years and these developed into the fundamental ideas for my lifestyle and culture. The idea of culture that we all share is extremely complex, so it is hard to define any parts of it without the use of symbolism. In order to define my culture, I selected three objects to represent me and my culture in a broad spectrum. However odd these objects may seem, I chose an aluminum ring, a computer and a Christmas stocking. These particular items

The values of the modern American society have changed drastically from how they were sixty years ago, in the 1950s. The values of today’s society consist of relationships (social), appearances (clothes), and items of possessions (technology).

From one form of media to another, another treasure is music. A record player belongs in the capsule to represent the art of music. My generation is greatly influenced by the music listened to today. Music grants the ability for today’s people to

This paper is an analysis of the single cultural artifact that best represents the culture in which I live in today. The paper will provide a detailed analysis of the artifact and how it relates to the values and beliefs of the culture. Additionally, it will address the deep cultural roots of the artifact, the historical roots of the artifact, what allowed it to come into being and who was affected by its development. This information will come as someone trained from the humanities.

Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography and personal memoir, “Born to Run,” covers all of exactly who he is and how he got to be that way. From his family life to the making of his albums, from his mental heath to his concerts, it all coincides with one another, clearly identifying who he is as a person. This book would thrill even the most hardcore Springsteen fanatics and keep them on the edge of their seat. Born to Run adds little that’s new, but its narrative voice proves to be extremely insightful

Tunnel of Love is unlike any other album that Bruce Springsteen has written. This was an album full of love songs, songs about the ups, downs, trust and loyalty that come with being in a relationship. The Tunnel of love album is drastically different from the previous Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A.; those two albums both talked about the struggles and hardships of the working class, a motif that does not appear in Tunnel of Love. The beat of this album differs greatly from that of Born in the U.S.A. this album isn’t as up beat and fun, instead the album is more down beat and sounds somewhat sad.

Many works of art can be considered artifacts that hold volumes of information regarding the culture of the people that created them and the historical context in which they lived.

The Awakening” there is vast usage of symbols such as the sea, houses, birds, clothing, and children.

Music is an important part of this world and has been around since the beginning of time from simple rhythms to more complex tools. Music not only brings pleasure but it has also brought an understanding to people about the time periods through the lyrics and music videos created. But what about the years before music videos and before lyrics fully occupied songs. During the 1920s lyrics were at the starting line and would originally only be located in a small area of the song or would just repeat the same thing over and over again without any true interpretable meaning. To top off that there were no music videos created during this time, which overall limited the ways music of the 1920s could be interpreted unlike music from the 2000s that

Sirius XM channel 20, the station my brother and I fear above all others. Home of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, which blares Bruce Springsteen non-stop, our father’s favorite musician. Since the move to digital, we’ve been listening to Born to Run and “I’m on Fire” since my brother learned to run and I set the bathroom on fire. Due to XM’s excruciatingly reliable signal, these have been the soundtracks to countless road trips, and college visits. Occasionally the station will rebroadcast a concert, often times one from another country, and one especially puzzled me. Bruce Springsteen was belting out the words to “Born in the U.S.A.,” in Paris. I couldn’t understand why the audience was so enthralled in the performance when they couldn’t relate to the lyrics, until it happened to me.

For this assignment I chose a song as my artifact, the solo debut song by Heidi Newfield. She is an American country music singer who was the lead singer of the group Trick Pony. The song, “Johnny & June”, was released in March of 2008 and peaked at #11 on the Hot Country Songs charts by late September. The song is classified as Traditional Country and is about the legendary love between the iconic American Country singer and song writer Johnny Cash and his wife of thirty-five years June Carter Cash. The reason I chose this song is that it is a perfect example of the way older popular culture imprints itself into newer media.

In a chapter called The Evocative Power of Things in his book Culture and Consumption, anthropologist Grant McCracken is concerned with the social ‘cultivation of hopes and ideals’ and the ‘bridging goods’ we use to cultivate what is otherwise unattainable. The author suggests that we use these goods to recover what he calls ‘displaced meanings’ of our culture. We look to buy what is missing from our lives and that enough will never be enough. He looks at what inanimate objects do for us and how our desire to consume can become the foundation

Countless people are always saying that today’s music is trash. It’s repetitive and oversimplified, and all because of this new music technology constantly being developed. A listener rarely hears a piece of music that has not been touched by technology, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. These people fail to realize that the theory of music technology has been around since the 1700’s when Mozart invented a game using a die to compose music by chance (Baggi). It is also important to realize the true of meaning of technology to society, and while there may be drawbacks, there are benefits that far outweigh them. The role of technology in music is largely beneficial to society due to the fact that it increases accessibility to both artists and listeners and allows for musical innovation.