Essay About Music

Punk rock music has been used for decades to express dissatisfaction with society, government, or any idea common in mainstream media. Yet punk rock is not simply a tangent of the mainstream, it is a dynamic and fluid genre with many distinct songs. Don Letts, a mainstay in the London punk scene during the 70’s and 80’s, went as far to say that hip-hop was essentially “black” punk. While punk and hip-hop music are stylistically different, the fundamental tone of the two genres is the same. Even throughout the decades, hip-hop has sang the same issues as punk, including the plight of the lower class, police brutality, and gang violence.

“He [Pearson’s father] would freak out when he read the song titles to the cassettes that my friends and I would shoplift from the mall…He was certain that I’d become a Junkie if I listened to that kind of music. But with an alcoholic wife-beater father who didn’t give a shit about his son I was bound to avoid the cliched, nihilist aspects of punk culture” (Pearson 12).

Music has been a long standing form of expression for hundreds of years. More recently however, it has become a way for artists to make social commentaries on the society they live in. During the 1970s, Punk bands and Ska bands emerged in England and rose to become a major source of social commentary through their upbeat music. Specifically looking at music from The Stranglers, The Specials, and The Clash, it is clear that lyrics clouded with anger and passion can be best communicated through upbeat sounds and melodies. Each of these groups communicates a need for radical change in society; but each one goes about this in a different way. Through the songs, “I feel like a Wog,” by The Stranglers, “A Message to you Rudy,” by The Specials, and “White Riot,” by The Clash, these bands point out that there is a common enemy in Society. They are forcing the mainstream to realize unpleasant truths about the culture that they inhabit. The future of England was unknown, and these songs were written during a time where people were worried about their place in the world. Faith in the system was dying and these bands gave way to a future generation to improve upon society that will present a more positive and equal multicultural Britain. Through the music it is clear that multicultural Britain was complicated; there were tumultuous times that these bands were commenting on, which pitted races against each other but also brought them together in fighting back against suppressive societal

Travi$ Scott, age twenty-three from Houston, is one of my favorite artist of all time and he still has a long career ahead of him. Scott and his good friend, Young Thug, came to perform one of the best concerts I have ever been to in Houston back in March. I arrived early for the concert and found myself standing in a very long line for such a small club. As I waited, I talked to the other fans and found it was an even mix there for Travi$, but also eager for Thug and vice versa. When we entered in the club, everyone stormed to the stage hoping to get the best spot. A DJ came out and played some of the best rap songs that everyone knew to get us pumped up for the performers. After waiting for over an hour, Young Thug was the first to come out and rap. The place instantly went crazy and from there on out, I knew it was

During a time when there was a general feeling of listless frustration, grunge gave the youth a voice. It showed them that they were not alone in their resentment toward those that kept them down, and that their insecurities for the future were shared by thousands. Unlike previous sub-genres within rock, grunge was not glamorous or showy. It was not ‘cool’; in fact, it professed that it was alright to be ‘un-cool’. Grunge was a celebration of the individual, and it spoke out against a world where the youth felt pressured

The Musical Composition that has changed my life to how I see music is the song The Stroke from Billy Squier. I did not really know the meaning of the song, but it really Widened my Horizon in terms of music from only before listening to The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and The Monkeys. Then later being able to listen to Rush, AC/DC, Aerosmith And Other Really good rock bands that I still love today. Then I started collecting Records then I started collecting CDs, the first album I bought for myself is the majestic Black Sabbath Album “Paranoid” The album with the musical compositions Paranoid, Iron Man, War Pigs/Luke’s Wall, Planet Caravan, Rat Salad, Electric Funeral, And Fairies Wear Boots. This album was such an amazing introduction to Black

“We were clean hippies,” she said with a laugh. Decked out in military style jackets and peasant skirts, she did whatever she wanted. At the time, her favorite musicians were Crosby Stills Nash and Young and Simon and Garfunkel. “ I wasn’t a big Bob Dylan fan, well until later,” She recalls, “I was too shallow I guess.” Despite her age of just 15 years old, she, her sisters, and a group of teenagers from Southport went to Woodstock in 1969. Being the eager young teenagers they were, Emily arrived a day early and left a day late. She said, “I think woodstock was a three day festival but we were high most of it, so it might have been four days.” Drugs had begun entering the mainstream in a way that previous generations had not seen. Emily remembers drugs entering her social scene in 1965, when she was 11. She describes her parents as, “very innocent to it all.” While drugs were prevalent in the youth, where she was it didn’t spread onto the older

In high school, a group of friends introduced me to Jacob Garrett: he would soon introduce me to the DIY music scene. I remember, in fact, the day I first saw his band, Clearviews, perform: in a twenty-feet-by-twenty-feet room, about twenty people packed together in order to listen to punk music. Let me clarity, these people, by societal standards, may be labeled “misfits.” For this reason: I felt at home. After coming home and researching, however, it turned out that many DIY artists were social outcasts-- as were their listeners. From the rapper “Milo,” a self-proclaimed “nerd” who studied Philosophy of Language, to “Nouns,” a punk band with representation from those on the autism spectrum, the DIY scene was full of “misfits!” And I connected

There have been multiple artists’ who have transcended and revolutionized rock n’ roll music in a social and economic phenomena. Throughout the late twentieth century, musicians’ astonished crowds and critics with their lyrical and melodic tunes: which led to a rise of prominence for rock in American culture. Many teens and adults round role models or shining examples that spoke for them, and filled their struggled lives with a sense of hope and relief. With super-stardom comes the inevitable aspects of monumental fame, extensive wealth, and pragmatic pleasures and sensations; on the other side of the spectrum, come the prolonged pressures to have a continuous amount of success and the tolls that touring take on the body. Along with that, comes

There is no disputing that society is influenced by its choices of entertainment. Some ways in which people are influenced are positive, but others are harmful. In the society we live in, the harmful ways always outnumber the positive. If we gravitated toward the positive forms of entertainment a little more often than the negative, then our society would have fewer problems. Popular music has a negative effect on society and endorses a lack of creativity.

I sat on the backstage of Derryfield School’s performance arts building, carefully going over the piano arrangements for Yiruma’s “Wait There” and “River Flows in Me”. Countless hours have I spent the past month going over each and every measure, making sure that I can play the entirety of each piece through memory and with my eyes closed. After practicing to perfection the past week, I felt confident in my ability to perform the music well in front of peers and strangers. However, an overwhelming sense of panic gripped me as I realize that I was only five minutes out from performing in front of a crowd of people I’ve never met or even seen in my life. Five minutes out to

Music; Indefinable by words alone. It is not only something you can hear but what you can feel. It is something your soul is able to reach out and touch. Music also has the power to bring us as humans, together. It is one language spoken by all cultures, sexes, races, age and religions. Music also controls our emotions; it makes us happy, sad, angry, relaxed, etc. We also can express ourselves through music. It can affect our personality.. someone who listens to classical, like Mozart or Bach, all the time is going to be smarter and more intellectual than someone who listens to rap or metal, and someone who listens to more upbeat happier music, like Ska or Swing, is more likely to

Musical instruments have played many major roles in helping with the construction of many societies around the world today. Many people do not realize what musical instruments have been responsible for and how they have helped shape the world today. There have been many instruments that have helped create and sculpt the world, but one instrument that I want to inform readers about is the trumpet and where it came from, as well as how it has changed over many years. The point that I am arguing is the fact that many people do not know where the trumpet has come from and how it has affected society.

It is no doubt that music has played a vital role in our society. Everything from loud, head-banging concerts to religious ceremonies have utilized the medium of music because of its awe-inspiring qualities. Music is basically the control of sound. We can control this sound by varying the pitch, tempo, octaves, dynamics and so on. There are thousands of ways that we can use music and to shape it to how we want to hear it. But how much has music influenced the way we think today? Why is it so popular?

The beautiful sound of piano music has captured the hearts of people since the early eighteenth century. Since then, many musicians have dedicated their lives to this instrument. Some players even play piano so well that it may seem that this instrument is easy to play. However, to be able to play the piano well isn’t easy; it takes a lot of skill. To become a good piano player, one must love music very much, have good finger techniques, and body flexibility.