Modern Music Research Paper

Last week Middle Tennessee State University ( MTSU) invited a professional Conjunto musician players. As a history class students we had to go and see their performance because Conjunto music is a traditional Mexican music. We had a lot of fun listening to their music and personally I would love to go again and listen to this music because this music is take you away back to the old Mexican music. Therefore, while you listening to this music, you feel like this music is talking to your soul.

Music in the 1930s During the deepest economic downturn in the United States, the Great Depression, music and dancing made people forget the hardships of their daily lives. Research shows that listening to music can improve your mood. Music has been used as a therapy for centuries, especially in the 1930s ("How Music Changes Your Mood"). Popular music during the 1930s included many upbeat and fun genres like swing, jazz, and country/western.

Rock and Roll was everything the suburban 1950s were not. While parents of the decade were listening to Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and Big Bands, their children were moving to a new beat. In fact, to the horror of the older generation, their children were twisting, thrusting, bumping, and grinding to the sounds of Rock and Roll. This generation of youth was much larger than any in recent memory, and the prosperity of the era gave them money to spend on records and phonographs. By the end of the decade, the phenomenon of rock and roll helped define the difference between youth and adulthood.

Having looked at the emotional effect this music has on people, it is now worth looking at the specific churches within the Sydney diocese to get a greater understanding on a smaller level as to how the music is played and what effect it might have. To do this, there have been visits to said churches to see what goes on, this is like a large scale of the participant observation methodology. This was a very useful in developing an understanding for how different churches of the same denomination were going about music as part of the service. There is some clear information that has come out from attending these churches. Firstly, and worth noting, the churches run very similar services, across most of the churches the structure of songs is the

African American music has influenced every genre in the music industry today. From Jazz music all the way to Rap, it has cultivated different cultures throughout the world in a very unique way. African Americans have produced music, beginning with the transition through the transatlantic slave trade, to slavery in the “New World”, the Civil Rights era, and to the modern society of today, that enabled so many genres to actually even exist. Even though each time period focused on a specific issue during that time, it is evident the suffrage and the overall experience of Blacks molded artist of the past and those of today. The music produced in the past is very much so different from that of today, however, it is clearly shown that many present

Funk is one of the music styles.It’s created by African American in the middle of the 1960s.This type of music have a strong rhythmic.Funk music were from the black people’s sad life, but it didn’t sound like very sad, reverse it sounds like very excited and lively.In the history, Funk rock is not popular because it’s very strong and classical, but with the time gone, when the Disco Music and Electronic Music happened, those make Funk Music stood on the USA’s music party.The singer make those types of music together and make the speed faster and faster.Then the Funk rock music coming.There were lot’s of elements and those all make the Funk rock music more perfect.

Rhythm and Blues had been around for a long time. And it was first introduced in the late 1940’s. The term was created to replace the designation “race music”, which until then was the standard catch-all phrase (About Entertainment). Rhythm and Blues music has an interesting history which has greatly evolved over the years.

Rhythm and blues, also known today as “R & B”, has been one of the most influential genres of music within the African American Culture, and has evolved over many decades in style and sound. Emerging in the late 1940's rhythm and blues, sometimes called jump blues, became dominant black popular music during and after WWII. Rhythm and blues artists often sung about love, relationships, life troubles, and sometimes focused on segregation and race struggles. Rhythm and blues helped embody what was unique about black American culture and validate it as something distinctive and valuable.

A majority of the major artists incorporated both secular and sacred music as a part of their repertoire, most notably Ray Charles. When reading articles on how to “properly” play the Hammond B-3 while conducting a church service, it feels as if you are reading a law book full of every mandate that you shall not disobey. Orville Foster elevates the importance in the selection of accompaniment in that the music glorifies prayer and, if done in poor taste can “obliterate the thought and the meaning of the prayer itself . In order that one may feel the sentiments of the music and its’ relation to God through the facilitation of the music, one must “weave a rich tapestry of multicolored chord progressions, always soft and never obtrusive.” This

As a way to fight against such evils, evangelical groups began to create alternative choices to the satanic unholy offensive music. The cultural phenomenon known as “Contemporary Christian Music” features Christian rock music, which includes Christian heavy metal, among many other styles of music that reintroduce themes that reinforce the five fundamentals. With songs of Christ’s divine forgiveness and personal salvation that are backed up by similar musical accompaniment that their secular counterparts sing but minus all the sex, drugs, parties, and other worldly activities. However, the music industry has made newer developments that tone down they blatant Christian themes.

Culture: I was interested in the definition of “Latin.” I find it interesting because of all the confusion that comes about when this subject is discussed. Many groups of individuals claim to be “Latin”, making it difficult for some culture to take sole possession of “Latin” music.

This premise is predicated on the hypothesis that music plays an independent and important role within scripture itself; that is to be an elevated carrier for liturgy and prayer, the use of which is mandated by God for corporate worship. Both corporate worship and individual faith would suffer if music were removed. As an act of worshipping obedience, and a way of more readily understanding and relating to God, we will examine

Nowadays the blues revolve around the meaning of sadness but doesn’t have a true message of fighting for survival or deprivation of freedom. In the process of searching for the modern day blues, it was discovered that the music is compiled by mostly Caucasian artist compared to the past where it was conceived by blacks to prompt their practices and beliefs.

House, Techno, and Trance are subgenres of electronic dance music. Electronic dance music became mainstream in the 1970s. The Moog synthesizer which was released in the mid 1960s is the first iconic instrument of electronic music. The 1970s can be described as the synthpop and disco era in which, Kraftwerk was a significant German band made in 1970 who used rhythmic sounds of bands like Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple and combined it with the futuristic sounds of the Moog synthesizer and vocoder. Giorgio Moroder also used electronic music to capitalize on the growing disco music trend and helped popularized it when he produced tracks for other artists such as Donna Summer and David Bowie. His use of synthesizers introduced the electronic sound

In applying the five criteria of evaluating worship music which are whether it contains biblical truth; theological profundity; poetic richness; musical beauty; and how the music to text enhances rather than obscures or distorts its meaning brings to the forefront that although Christian music is enjoyable and at times comforting there is a need to delve deeper into their formation to see the true beauty and merit it holds