On The Road

“A freelance professional musician has to be willing to perform a wide variety of musical styles (folk, classical, and pop) in order to please a wide spectrum of audiences. All musical styles are worthy of equal respect since all music is tied to people’s need for emotional, heartfelt expression through memorable melodies. In order to make a living, a musician has to travel to where the jobs are and not be fixated on trying to earn an income from home” (2009).

Arriving in Nashville has slowly unwound pre-conceptions that have formed back home in Brisbane. From what is commonly found as a hobby, music has found its way as a casual work opportunity rather than a well earnt reward. My first 24 hours in Nashville started off with 2 song-writing sessions at Belmont University. From a personality streak that is hard wound against popular ideas in writing music, I found myself mid-class fully engaged in a pop-country class. From seems as being taught survival tactics in Brisbane, here we are learning ways to create multi-million dollar hits. This is partially due to country musics expansion into American popular music, but also the line being drawn between writing and performing.

Writers provide glimpses of other worlds, giving readers opportunities to reflect on their own world

the narrative, a mistake this thesis will seek to correct by including guitarists from outside

If you happen to get into a crash, you should immediately pull to the side of the road and stop. If

McCarthy does avoid the traditional rules of punctuation and grammar in writing The Road. His motivation could be to display the bleak and depressing mood that carries throughout the novel. Perhaps he is using this lack of punctuation and “rule-following” to impress upon the reader what matters and doesn’t matter in this world he has created. The father and son go for long periods without speaking to another human, there are no birds, and there is a lack of trust amongst these remaining humans. Does punctuation really matter? This is done to challenge our thinking about what really matters to us. Perhaps he didn’t see commas and apostrophes as that essential in telling his story.

The irony is that the reason the man wrote this “love” song and has this conflict, is because he most likely did or will act in a way that would make her consider leaving him. – He is his own worst enemy that would cause his stars to leave the sky.

Two miles closer to the river, birds begin their flight back to their nest. The chilling breeze begins to die down, and the crickets start to chirp. An abandoned sail boat is tied around a tree. The ground is saturated from the winter storms, and mud stains appear among the trees. The sunlight can barely be seen through the canopy. Deep in the swamp, a loud “thwack” is heard echoing off of the cypress trees. Two young men, Daniel Glaze and Jim Puckett, have been boar hunting all evening. The duo let time slip away and are now hurrying to make it back before it is too late.

Jack Kerouac does an excellent job of commenting on the 1950’s American society through his novel ‘On The Road’. Kerouac bases his novel in a era in which American society is experiencing significant changes in values and lifestyle. The novel follows a group of friends while they explore what it means to live American life “on the road”. During their travels, they explore sexuality, define their morals, and learn how unattainable true happiness really is. Kerouac develops very complex characters as the story progresses. Through the characters’ feelings and actions, Kerouac is able to convey an atmosphere of universal loneliness. The author uses these characters to comment on the negative aspects of the decade and how they result in severe unhappiness

Jason talked to Rolling Stone Country about the album. “The older you get, the more of your freedom you trade in, in order to have things around you that you care about.” “People spend so much time talking about freedom, and on one hand, that’s an illusion. I’m not free to go out and do whatever the hell I want, because

From having a career of working closely with musicians in their creative process I came to a general understanding that making music is a tiring profession. Some artists spend up to 24 hours in a recording studio to create music that fans could only hear for three or four minutes. With the thought that music is their main source of income to put food on the table, musicians are sacrificing their time, energy, and money to get paychecks from the record label they are signed to.

Believe it or not some rock stars have suffered abuse when they were a child. Some went through sexual, physical, or emotional abuse(Nick Clark, 2012). Putting a strain on them for the rest of their lives. From personal experience they can tell you music is a way out in the thing we call life. Most people find peace in music. But those who have been through or still are abused, music is a salvation mixed with eternal peace with happiness sprinkled on top. That sounds really crazy when you put it like that, but if you ever been through abuse you can emphasise with them more than anyone else can.

My legs are growing weak and my body feels like a weight. I have been walking for hours now and have not taken any time to stop and rest. The thought of me getting back to the highway, back to civilization, is the only thing that keeps me going on this long journey. Every step I took through that river against that huge current took a huge tole on me. I can’t wait to see the faces that I have left behind on my journey. Just the thought of seeing them again gives me the strength to keep moving and to get out of these woods. I’m so overwhelmed with excitement but at the same time I have a part of me that is nervous. I keep thinking about the same questions over and over. What am I going to say to everyone that I have left behind? What are their reactions going to be like? A few hours later I made it onto the highway and within ten minutes I hitched a long ride with a trucker who was going to Montana. He said he could drop me off in South Dakota at a bus stop and so I hopped in and we went on a long drive together. I didn’t really talk a lot and neither did he. We both seemed to be in our own little world with no distractions. I was to mesmerized by the beauty of the Alaskan wilderness which I had stayed in for months. While on the road I saw a lot of new construction sites for roads and buildings. I had no idea what I had missed out on while I was out there on that abandoned bus without any communication. I wonder what I have missed… there were sites where parts of the Alaskan

Today, rock and roll music, is not in the forefront of the music industry. Much debate is being made over its decline, with many people saying that, “Rock is dead.” While on the other side of the record album, people are saying, “It’s not dead and will make a comeback.” It is this writer’s opinion, that rock and roll is awaiting its rebirth, and if you pay close enough attention to the birthing sounds, you will agree. Rock and roll was conceived by rhythm and blues music in the 40’s and 50’s, with a fast, dynamic rhythm, that held a powerful beat. Its lyrics were filled with anger and defiance. Today, our world has plenty to be angry about and of course, even more to be defiant over. Thus, as long as these attitudes exist, rock and

Jack Kerouac was an American writer and poet of French-Canadian descent who made a significant mark in history in writing during the post-World War II era. He was recognized as the leader of the Beat movement generation and most popular book, “On the Road” which was published in 1957. The Beat Generation was known as the movement that was started by a group of authors that researched and influenced American culture and politics at the time. It can be understood to say that the Beat Generation was the precursor for the Flower Children of the 1960’s. These group of authors of the Beat Generation included Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Sal Paradise and others. Majority of the work of the Beat Generation was recognized and published during the 1950s. Jack Kerouac’s first novel “Town and City” was published in 1950 was an autobiography of small town values and inspirations city life. Unfortunately, his first novel did not give him much recognition. Jack Kerouac also wrote The Dharma Bums, Visions of Cody, The Subterraneans, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler and several other novels. He originally wrote “On the Road” in 1951 on a single scroll manuscript paper stretching 120 feet long which publishers rejected for six years. “On the Road” took Jack Kerouac three weeks to write and was an immediate best seller once it got published in 1957. Jack Kerouac’s writing of the book