Popular Music: White Winter Hymnal

Music defines our culture. As Americans, we listen to music while we drive our cars, are at work, doing housework, studying, etc. We have songs for special occasions: Christmas, Hanukah, birthdays, weddings, parties, etc. We have taken songs from the various cultures that make us diverse: Arabic, German, Mexican, Native American, etc. We have many genres: country, hip-hop, rap, pop, blues, jazz, rock, heavy metal, etc. And although we may think of music as simple and easy, looking at all this makes one realize how diverse and complex our music truly is. Two things that contribute to this diversity are theme and symbolism.

The title of this poem is ‘’Fire and Ice’’ it is written by Robert Frost and is in a first person point of view. A group of people discuss how the world will end, either in fire or in ice and the narrator shares his personal experiences of “ice’’ and ‘’fire’’. There are many ways the words in this poem can be interpreted, at first glance it seems like Frost is talking about the end of the world but it also can be about the power that human beings have to harm and destroy one another. When reading this I kept seeing the world ending in a great ball of fire like a nuclear war or a meteor turning everything to ashes and a new ice age also bringing destruction to all living things but I was taking the words to literal. You might have heard the quote “ice cold’’ I think Frost meant to say that people can be filled with such hate that eventually a person becomes emotionless leading me to believe that maybe he was suffering from overwhelming distress from a recent relationship and had brought up these thoughts about the world.

In "This is How we Roll" Florida Georgia Line transitions from singing their lyrics to a country rap where the beat slows and the lyrics are sped up on a rhyme scheme. Similarly, Future took a step away from an overload of modulated bass to incorporate a piano rift instead. We as listeners use these genres of music to describe the music we like to listen to. However, the spectrum is so broad that it is important to understand what composes a specific genre. There are hundreds of sub-genres included in the overall label of country or hip-hop music, and the list continues to expand as artists proceed to develop new creative ideas that make it to the top of the billboards. Both of these songs are examples of songs that swept the nation with popularity but experimented with new styles the diverged from the norms of the genre. I believe genres will always stay true to their cultural origins; however, I'm excited for the future of music as artists continue to dip into various new

Popular music is often one of the best lenses we have through which to view our own cultural orientation. Many of the artistic and experimental shifts in popular music have mirrored changes in our own society. For instance, the emergence of Elvis Presley as a public figure would signal the start of a sexual revolution and the growth in visibility of a rebellious youth culture. Similarly, the folk and psychedelic music of the 1960s was closely entangled with the Civil Rights, anti-war and social protest movements. In this regard, we can view popular music as an artifact through which to better understand the time and place in which it is produced. In light of this, the state of popular music today may suggest troubling things about our society.

As it is obvious, the lyrics of the songs were often altered in order to please one side or the other, and thus those songs would have bias in one side or the other. Nevertheless, these songs were an important form of delivery of the current events.

Songs and song lyrics can take many different forms. Like poetry, they tend to use many different literary elements to convey a story. While most songs don't necessarily have a rhyme scheme like some poems, they do however use elements such as imagery, diction, and many more elements that can be found in poetry. The four songs “Rule Britannia”, “Land of Hope and Glory”, “Waltzing Matilda”, and “We are the Boys from old Florida” demonstrate the use of poetic elements to tell a story.

     Many forms of popular culture today are inspired by themes, characters, and other references in various types of classical literature. John Denver’s song “Calypso” parallels with a number of the themes in Homer’s the Odyssey. The Odyssey’s themes involving Odysseus’ journey back home and the aid of gods and goddesses directly influence “Calypso.”

Most of the earliest memories people have are of their family members. That is the theme for both of the poems My Father’s Song and Those Winter Sundays. Both of the authors, Hayden and Ortiz have feelings about their fathers and express them throughout each poem. Their feelings towards their fathers are both alike and different. As for the poems, My Father’s Song and Those Winter Sundays also contain many similarities and differences.

Many say that music has evolved over the years. This essay shall explore the elements of two versions of one song. It shall discuss the correlations and disparities of these songs and confer how it has been revolutionised to entertain the audiences of today.

One song that exemplifies this difficulty is “Down and Out” by the band The Academy Is. The first half of the piece in particular builds a vague narrative, which is told using rhyme schemes, the subversion of common English sayings, and rhythmic repetition of certain phrases for emphasis. For example, the second verse contains the lyrics “out of the house, she grabs the keys, runs for the hills and doesn't leave a letter. That way the impact will be much better.” First of all, the somewhat simplistic rhyming of the words “letter” and “better” serves to illustrate the impact that the narrator is

In 1963 both John Lennon and Paul McCartney had formed Northern Songs with the help of Dick James and Brian Epstein. Ownership of Northern Songs had been divided up with 50% going to James and his partner Charles Silver, 20% a piece to both Lennon and McCartney, and the remaining 10% of ownership had gone to Epstein. But in order to understand what Northern Songs’ purpose was, you must first understand the details leading to its creation. In 1963, the producer of the soon to be hit group The Beatles, George Martin had given advice to Brian Epstein to find a new and reliable publisher seeing as EMI was doing absolutely nothing to promote the single “Love Me Do”. Martin had given Epstein three reliable publishers that would be not only honest

To me, I think the music contrast with the words very well. The songs is very lyrical and the music is not that important. However, the upbeat and rhythmic music does give color to the song by setting a driving pace.

“Since the invention of the printing press, poetry is delivered mainly to the eye. Lyrics are delivered mainly to the ear” (Admin 1). For many years, music has been infamous for its catchy beats and rhythms that satisfy the ear, while poetry has the potential to cling to the emotional side of all people. An example of poetry overpowering music can be William Butler Yeats’ piece entitled “Never give all the heart” which shows more evidence of significance behind its poetic devices rather than Demi Lovato’s “Stone Cold.” It can be argued that poetry is the most powerful piece of art due to its focus on the words in which are absorbed through the eye and delivered straight to the heart. On the other hand, lyrics of a song center on the rhythm

All music has changed tremendously throughout the years. Each generation has several specific songs that defines that generation. Every song has different lyrics that describe the emotions that the artists are feeling. The songs connect to each individual in many different ways. Lyrics to a song is what makes music wonderful. Each song touches someone through ways like teaching a life lesson or touching your heart. Every generation has music that impacts the world by motivating people to do certain things or defines a person’s personality. Each generation has music that defines the generation.

In western today, there are two major types of music that prevail. On the one hand, there is classical music, choir music generally performed by solo artists. On the other hand, there is popular music or rock music performed by rock groups. This article provides a detailed semiotic analysis of “white room” by Cream in the 1968. The period, after the 1940-1950 eras, was when rock’ n roll began to take shape (Anthony Gribin & Matthew Schiff, 1992)