Move Your Feet By Junior Senior: Song Analysis

Miller (2000) interprets Music as an aesthetic display and indicator for fitness. Musical activities such as “dancing” represents health, “voice control...self confidence for status”, “Rhythmic” engagement shows ability to identify patterns and “melodic creativity” which assists initiation for social communication(Miller 2000, p.10). This handicapping, sexual trait may be useful for reproductive success but attempting to gain excessive aesthetic display can lead to dire consequences. Jimi Hendrix, famous guitarist, died at 27 years from drug overdose which he used to “spark his musical imagination” (Miller, 2000, p.2). Hendrix’s fatal actions can be explained by the neural overlap between effects of drug and music, making music a possible threat to survival(Blood and

As a child growing up, I was always into art and music. I would draw on all my notebooks for school, often find myself lost in my own lyrical world, always looking up new artists to listen to and probably download over 40-50 songs a month, maybe more. Back then, I was just doing it for fun though until I was about nine or ten years old. My love for the harmonizing sounds went from a small crush to the love of my life. My dad and I was driving around the city that I will one day leave a mark in, the city of Jacksonville, when my dad put on the one song I will forever dedicate to changing my life, Find A Way by A Tribe Called Quest. Now understand that this was the first time I have ever heard this song and it put a flame in my soul, like my

People listen to music for a variety of reasons. Some listen to music to relax in which it serves as a sort of escape from everyday life, some because they are a fan and follow a certain artist, and others because they can relate the lyrics to their own personal experiences. Whichever the case may be, music has and continues to serve an important role in people’s lives.

For as long as mankind has walked on this earth, music has been an important part of our culture and lifestyles. Each walk of life beats to a different drum. Different cultures use music for many aspects of their lives; for religious purposes, for celebrations, for comfort, for sorrow, for relaxation, for sports, for dances, for energy, for learning, for sleeping, and for sexual experiences. Everyone uses music for something. Music connects with people and reaches them in ways that words simply cannot. Music is a representation of what feelings sound like. It expresses emotion and brings that characteristic out from within us; it tells us a story. Every generation has its’ own sound and different music styles have emerged and become

The impact that music has on individuals lives varies greatly from person to person and often provides a unique lifestyle to each individual. An author by the name Oliver Sacks talks about the unique cases that he has dealt with in the past in his writings. The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and “Brainworms, Sticky Music, and Catchy Tunes” from Musicophilia are two articles written by Oliver Sacks, which show the relationship that music has on the mind and how music can change how a person perceives reality. The human mind is a complex machine and yet there is something about music that transforms a person’s thought process completely.

Earworms, or involuntary musical imagery (INMI, as cited in Liikkanen, 2008) is a phenomenon where a song plays in one’s own mind repeatedly in an involuntary manner. It has been researched that popular songs are the most dominant earworms , but this experiment has intentions to analyse earworm data from songs having varying levels of popularity and experience for a variety of resulting data. The aim for this experiment is how likely a song would become an earworm via two conditions. Firstly, on how much the participant likes the song after listening to it 6 times, or the estimated amount of times the song has been listened to. This was measured by the amount of earworm episodes and their length of time. Previous research has outlined potential parallels of INMI and other memory types, or perhaps an association on tempo recollection of an earworm and the sensorimotor system .

Music can play a big role in our lives. It can be remembrance of a special times and times in hardships. Music can be a language without words because it’s so powerful and you can see their feelings or emotions in that one song. That can be one way of how we can have connection with another person. It also bring us together like there is a party and everyone just sitting on the couch but when they start to play music, we grab our friends and we start to dance with new people. Music is a big part of people. A song call “Realize” by Calbie cailat play a big part of my life. The tempo of the song is slow and have sad emotion in it. This was when my family just got to America in Charlotte, North Carolina. We cannot speak English at that time but we still enjoy

Seizures stimulated by thinking of music also supported this theory since there is recruitment of musical memory and its associated emotion (Maguire, 2012). Mrs. O’C is a good example of this. Mrs. O’C only had seizures when thinking about her childhood in Ireland and the specific Irish songs she would sing and dance to. Orphaned at five years old, Mrs. O’C moved to America to live with family. These Irish songs caused her to be flooded with memories of her time in Ireland when her mother and father were both alive, a time she had hardly remembered before these musical seizures began (Sacks, 1970). It is also interesting to consider Mrs. O’M’s case when thinking about emotional connections. Mrs. O’M reported no emotional connection to the songs she was hearing, however had been humming them before the seizures began. This seems to indicate that there was some type of emotional connection and that is probably why those specific songs were what played on repeat in her head every time she had a seizure (Sacks, 1970).

On April 20th, 21st at 7 p.m. and the 22nd at 2 and 7 p.m. Oswego East High school present Footloose the Musical. It starred Ren McCormack as Mitchell Crispi and Ariel Moore as McKenna Kreiling. It starred my other characters including, Willard as Alec Ludacka, Rusty as Ally Filicicchia, Urleen as Vera Mehnert, Ethel as Miranda Johanson, Reverend Shaw as Christian Mack. The musical was based in the small town of Bomont in 1988. Ren McCormack and his mother Ethel move from Chicago to Bomont after his father left them. Ren expecting a nice family community but, experience something way different. Ren finds himself constantly in trouble with other teens, the school, a new job and even the law. Although, through a battle of Ren trying to convince

In the lives of many musical content creators, the most important aspect of life itself is the melodic placements of notes in a musical number. These strategically placed notes, meant to thrill the brain with dopamine, in their content portrays the passion inside of them. Therefore, during a stimulating music festival, the crowd obtains the energy that was put into the songs, as the songwriter performs. At the world-renowned music festival, Coachella, thousands of people attend to experience exclusive music of their favorite artist. While listening, they show their enjoyment of a tune through exerting energy amongst the crowd. However, energy can also be heard through the sounds of another’s voice. When separated from one another due to various reasons, a family member or friend will feel excitement and energy just by the sound of their beloved companion’s voice. Through the eyes of a parent, watching their child grow into an adult is one of the most beautiful natural sights to see; however, once an adult, their baby must attend college or move out. Every once in a while, they will call to catch up with their parent; and during this time, both recipients feel a rush of happiness and energy while listening to the familiar voice on the other side. Overall, the feeling of energy is interpreted in different ways and

As a child I frequently made up little songs, and there seemed to be a constant stream of music in my head. I could see myself in the children she was observing and like them I didn’t have a framework for my experience – it was just my life. Whether it was singing while playing, tapping out some rhythm, singing at the top of my lungs to a favorite song, or goosebumps from hearing “Hall of the Mountain King”, it all felt familiar and warming. It has also made me aware of the musicking I continue to make every day in small ways here and

I have this theory that when it comes to music there is an unseen power which transforms. In in my life I have felt the influence of this power but it wasn't until the other day that I witnessed this power in action. It was through a procedure called Music Therapy where the method of treatment involves the patient listening to music. The element of music has a history of an intuitive connection that has psychologically been beneficial. Music therapy bands together the concept of music, mental health, psychological, and physiological benefits. With more examinations to estimate the advantages for this procedure more debate arises. Many are eager to

Thesis: Music is a unique form of sound powerful enough to manipulate mood, feelings, and cognition.

“Evidence suggests that music remains just as essential to the human race now as it did 70,000-80,000 years ago.” (Harvey, 2011) Music, song, and dance as art forms have completely integrated with the art works to tell a whole story of the human culture, its history, and its beliefs. The art of music implements cohesion among a society and acts as a framework to our social architecture. “For many, the evolution of art in Homo sapiens is a unique event that is linked to the evolution of the cognitively modern mind.” (Harvey, 2011) As the human mind has evolved, so has art. Sounds, especially music has had a direct effect on the evolution of mankind. Recent studies have shown how the mnemonic structure of music aids and promotes memory, learning, and the organization of knowledge. It is also proven to add structure to time. Cultures and the human species have continued to do and create art over several time periods because it allows humans to not only

Music elicits an emotional and cognitive response in all who listen to it. It is powerful at the individual level because “it can induce multiple responses – physiological, movement, mood, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral” (Francis, 2008,