Music Analysis: Flashdance

What do you think of when you think of music during the 1980s? Do you picture the stereotypical neon colors or leg warmers mixing with loud electronic or pop music, or do you see more? Music had more of an impact than one individual would think. Along with the famous singers and bands that rose to fame, fashion styles, trends, dance moves, and new products all come with the 80s. The 1980s has forever altered how America as a whole views music because of Music Television, musical icons who rose to fame, and the trends, styles, and products that had been born.

Adoff makes music with the words and space in “Street Music” by writing all the descriptive words by separating each letter of the word with spaces and the words that made a sound would be written normally, without spaces in between the letters. For example, at the beginning of the poem, the speaker describes the city and where the noise in this city is coming from. Hence, he separated his words into letters with spaces, an example from is when the speaker states that “T h i s c i t y:/ t h e / a l w a y s / n o i s e / g r i n d i n g” (1-5). Another example of this is “an o r c h e s t r a” (24). On the other hand, words that are used for the actual sounds are written normally in this poem, such as “slamming from bus tires” and “taxi horns”

It’s hard to talk about music today without bringing up music from the eighties. Some of the artists today got their ideas and musical talent from watching their idols from that decade. For example, Usher credits his dancing and musical talent from Michael

The 1980s was full of so many important events and extravagant sports. There are a variety of historic and sport events that influenced what was popular in that time period. The 80s was filled with new advancements in television broadcasting sports for women and many other important historical events.

While reading page nine through fifteen in the Wake Tech English 111 Reader I learned new strategies and tips on how to improve my song summary essay. I learned how to implement new strategies in my song summary essay so that I could write my introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion proficiently in my paper. Mutually, before reading the Wake Tech English 111 Reader I also did not know that when writing a rough draft for an essay a conclusion, introduction or body paragraph could be written first. Similarly, Ashley I always thought that an introduction had to be written before any other part of an academic essay. Primarily, I thought that an introduction had to be written first because my previous English teachers stressed

I have two first impressions after reading the book That Deadmans Dance. The author Kim Scott uses vivid imagery to describe the landscapes and the characters dialog. As Scott was describing the sea and the landscapes it brought back my early childhood. I spent time as an adolescent living on an Umnak Island in the middle of the Aleutian chain located in the bearing sea of Alaska. All of Scott’s imagery brought back the times I spent watching the whales migrate listening and feeling the wind and sea beat against my skin. I enjoyed remembering my youth while reading this book.

There are school dances oriented towards this decade, the music of the 1980s time can still be heard on the radio, movies of today make references of the movies of the 1980s, and Nintendo has grown much bigger since then. The 1980s will continue to make an

The 1980s was a decade of revolutionary changes on the music scene. The two major developments were the advent of MTV and the compact disc. Music became more diverse, with new wave, heavy metal, rap, techno pop, alternative rock and the "new" country sounds. And music became a huge marketing tool as filmmakers, TV producers and manufacturers of everything from sneakers to soft drinks used hit songs and hot performers to sell their products.

The first time I dance in public was for a T.V show. There were a lot of people, including my family and some friends. Everyone was so excited because my sister and I were going to dance on TV for the first time. The director yelled us to be ready, so all of us ran directly to our places. The lights turned off, some Sr. started to count out loud: “6, 5, 4…” and then with his hands “3, 2, 1…” And the music began to sound. I can barely hearted it, I was so concentrated trying to control my heartbeat and not vomit. Suddenly at the middle of the song I had no idea of what I was doing, I had forgotten the choreography completely! So I got paralyzed and didn’t make any move until the song was over. Of

The 80's were life changing years in music history. They were called the “decade of excess” by some and the way people could enjoy music was forever altered. The 80’s brought music to life with stunning displays of special effects ranging from anything fireworks being blasted off at concerts to using computers to alter the sounds of instruments to make new sounds for people to enjoy. People could now watch music instead of just listening to it.

The dance that I will be focusing on is entitled: thinking sensing standing feeling object of attention. The dance, to me, symbolizes the socialization of persons in Western civilization concerning gender roles. In the beginning there are gestures that are separated from emotion and full-embodiment, but as the dance progresses the gestures become more meaningful and recognizable. The lighting starts out very specific and narrow, then the light encompasses the entire stage, and eventually the dancers are silhouetted as they return to a familiar movement motif in the end. The music is mainly instrumental with occasional soft female vocals, and the lyrics suggest emotion, which is interesting because the dancers do not convey emotion until

The 1980s were a very iconic decade in time, a lot of things that happened then have effected how things work even now in 2015. Sports memories, history. and titles were all changed in the 80s. Fashions were created and remodeled. Some of the most famous musicians ever debuted their hits in the 1980s. The 1980s truly has changed our generation and i’m sure very many to come. Many things have changed since then and im excited to see what is to come.

Music and movies during this decade were great ,many of the movies and music are still popular today. Just like in today’s world, there were many different types of music during the 70’s ,but the most popular ones were disco ,and rock’n roll . Some rock bands during the 70’s that were popular are : Led Zeppelin, Queen, John Lennon, and The Who. Some popular disco bands were The Jackson 5, ABBA, Bee Gees, and CHIC. Along with great music came great movies, The Exorcist, Jaws, Halloween, and Carrie were all produced in the 70’s and are still popular

The piece of art I chose is is a song that I listened to a lot as a kid and still listen to today. The melodies and instruments transcend the lyrics. However , the lyrics hold so much more. I lived on a fire station as a kid when this song came out. Actually it was a tape in 1985. I thought because of the association with my dad being gone on fires all the time, that this song “The Working Hour,” related to him and his need to be away working on fires all the time. As an adult, I still feel those feelings as I did when I was 7 yrs old, however now I am the one working. I do the same job, and the working hour means something more to me now then it did when I was a kid waiting for my father to return from fires. This was a time when work to

AMSTERDAM — Obviously I know, but what fascinates me is how this human dance could be a response to almost any event - good or bad - the camera phones, the monopods and selfie sticks, press photographing the press. And about how watching the event through our device screens we miss things like the boats lying across the water, or the two people in the middle, maybe individuals, maybe friends caught up in