Pop Folk Music Analysis

Have you seen those weird music festival T-shirts that people wear and wonder what someone could possibly want to wear that for? While they’re sometimes meant to catch attention of people so they may want to look up the festival, it also serves as a reminder for many amazing memories for the two or three-day event. For a long time now music has changed people’s lives in many ways. It has brought people to fame and lifted many out of depressions. But, to those who haven’t experienced a festival, or even live music in general, you have been missing out an amazing social experience like no other. From the kings of festivals like Woodstock or Coachella to the lesser known ones like Rock on the Range (Hard rock/metal based) and Day for Night (variety) there are hundreds to pick from. One of my favorites is Carolina Rebellion which takes place right in this state.

"Your favorite rappers' corpses couldn't match up to my importance," A$AP Rocky gloats in his second track “Canal St.” to his second LP AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP. Rocky takes an ambitious turn in latest LP with the majority of his songs reflecting a psychedelic roots in songs such as “L$D”, “Fine Whine”, and “Dreams”.

My friends and I walk into a packed venue, and are immediately met by a young guy with shaggy brown hair and a skull hoodie, who holds up a white piece of paper with a hastily scrawled "$8" in the center. I pull out my worn wallet from the left pocket of my leather jacket. My hands strain momentarily to pull the snaps open, before my fingers find their way to my single worn 10 dollar bill. The man hands me two dollars in change and stamps my hand with a blue paw print, and I turn to face the stage. All the while a man has been screaming and singing on stage, not unpleasantly. The vibe of this crowd feels different from the normal one, rougher. They have a more hardcore look to them, and I've never seen Alexia's band play with one that yells, other than one time at a small coffee shop in which a single kid with an acoustic guitar spent twenty minutes strumming and screaming slam poetry into the mic, while my friend and I sipped iced vanilla lattes in the other room.

By the end of the 50’s and beginning of the 60’s rock had somewhat died down and become tamer. many thought it was dead until the mid 60’s. Rock & Roll had a resurgence, known as “The British Invasion”. While things had settled down in the US, England had been inspired. Groups from Britain like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles brought a fresh style, infusing British Rhythm and Blues and Jazz into what they played. This revival propelled the genre down two different paths. Many groups came onto the scene and continued to make more of the same teen-appropriate pop-style music. others pushed boundaries in an industry heavily influenced by drugs, spawning the phrase, “Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll”. The Beatles were at the center of it all, experimenting with different sounds and instruments. Their experimentations became part of a larger movement, known as psychedelic rock, which included the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd was one of the first bands to use laser lights in their concerts. What’s more psychedelic than that? Hendrix even took it a step further, creating what many call Acid Rock. Additionally, the Beatles were not just trendsetters with their music, but also with fashion, sporting hair that was abnormally long for men at the

“Rock music is important to people, because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them, but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That 's what rock and roll is about” (Pete Townshend). The concept of rock and roll music had eased into the music industry in a time after a crippling war and a great depression. The mid to late 20th century was home to innovation, rebellious teens, and a devastating war..The introduction of rock music has influenced our country and molded it in many ways as the genre progressed and has found a place in our culture.

“It is, then, all the odder that major figures concerned with education, in both nations, continue to behave as if the goal of education were economic growth alone.” Pg. 17

Music is often considered “the universal language.” Throughout history, it has symbolized love, brought people together, and mobilized millions. In the 1950s, a new form of music entered the American music industry that drastically changed the culture of the United States (U.S.): rock music. In the U.S., it began as rock ‘n’ roll, an originally “black” music genre that was then taken and promulgated by white Americans. After World War II (WWII), many Americans—especially teenagers—struggled with the newfound societal conformity and normalcy, and rock provided them with a form of rebellion.

As much as I wanted to eat something healthy, I allowed myself to splurge and buy a bacon hamburger packed with macaroni and cheese and a side of fries. The burger was unreal. Yet despite the savory taste, this would come to haunt me during The 1975’s performance. After waiting four hours at Piedmont stage and nearly being thrown in a mosh pit during a Swedish heavy-metal band, Ghost’s, set, The 1975 came on stage and revived my life. At this point my legs were aching, I was about to collapse from the lack of sleep I got the night before, I felt nauseous from the amount of weed and cigarettes being smoked, and what lovely time for my stomach to start meeting up with the burger I just had. When I tell you I nearly threw up on the girl in front of me I am not kidding. I felt miserable, but it was all worth it. Having seen The 1975 two times prior to this event, you’d expect that I would be accustomed to their performances. This was not the case. As they grow bigger and bigger everytime I see them the moment feels more and more surreal. From everyone knowing the lyrics to ‘Robbers’ to making the entire crowd jump to ‘The Sound’, it just shows one the dedication us fans have towards a band. They never fail to surprise

My taste for music is unusual, not many songs please me. My aversion to saxophones is unmatched, but I love wooden instruments, the traditional flute, the Andean reed zambona, fisarmonica, congo drums, rebaba, the violin. The saxophone, however, scare me more than a Black Mamba snake. I wish Eritrean musicians introduce other instruments, the world has many of those and it's okay to borrow.

     Rock ‘n’ roll music came of age in the sixties which was a period in the nation’s history when a young generation expressed their anguish and sense of alienation to the country’s social establishments by searching for new answers to the age-old questions concerning the meaning of life, the value of the individual, and the nature of truth and spirituality (Harris 306). The classic rock music which was created during this period gave form and substance to this search. Songs such as “My Generation” by the Who recorded the keen sense of alienation that young people felt from the past and the “Establishment” and it also showed the keen sense of community they felt among themselves.      Classic albums such as the Beatles’ “White Album,” the Who’s “Who’s Next,” Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited, and Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” capture what was essential about the time because they were both a result of that time and because they helped to produce it by reinforcing the younger generation’s feelings of alienation and separation.      Although

Last summer I got the chance to see Brian Wilson perform live with a backing band comprising of Al Jardine (The Beach Boys) and younger session musicians Matt Jardine, Darian Sahanaja and Scott Bennett. Having missed out on getting tickets to the Beach Boys 50th anniversary concert in London a couple of years earlier, I jumped at the chance to see the band’s frontman when he scheduled a show just an hour away from my hometown.

I remember arriving at Vans Warped Tour in Shakopee, Minnesota at 9 o’clock in the morning. We pulled into a broad field to park our car. As we got out of the car, I saw how long the line was to get into the concert. We strolled our way down a massive hill to get our spot in line. Once we passed the peak of the

The introduction of women rock musicians was perhaps the most significant of these evolutions. Women changed the scope of the music industry by allowing for the expansion of the rock ‘n roll fanbase through newfound celebrity support for feminism and female empowerment, which was delivered lyrically by these new women musicians. Women rockers represented the ability for females to be successful in society and glorify their independence while they worked to achieve

The blistering summer weather of San Antonio drives its population to community pools, water parks and nearby beaches. Avoiding the sun becomes a vacation priority for many who live here. Yet during the height of the summer when temperatures reach their peak, a massive gathering has been occurring at the AT&T Center called the Vans Warped Tour ©. The popular shoe franchise Vans© has been sponsoring this music event for the past twenty years. The tour brings together a diverse group of bands to one event where fans can spend an entire day going from show to show. This past summer’s tour hosted a number of famous bands such as Mayday Parade, The Story So Far, The Devil Wears Prada, We the Kings and many more. The ticket price is outshined by the number of bands one is able to see. As more people

Finding this event was the easy part, but getting to it was the more challenging task. Searching through a list of world music concerts, the Rockin’ Road to Dublin stood out to