Song Analysis: The Shires

Southern music known today as country music became popular in the 1920’s. This was music that was based on folk music of cowboys in the southeast (Collins English Dictionary, 2003). In most of the early music the artist played stringed instruments like fiddles, guitars, banjos and some were even playing harmonicas. When this type of music started some people called it

“Tale of Two Citiez” by J Cole is a song featured in his 2015 album “ Forest Hill Drive”.The song is inspired by the book “Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens, the book is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution some of the themes that the novel focuses on is the conflict between rich and poor. In an interview with Tavis Smiley Cole explains how the song compares two side of Fayetteville; the more prosperous area Forest Hill Drive opposed to the crime-ridden inner city area. In the song Cole speaks about dealing with peer pressure in living in a crime ridden place and trying to find a way out. In Monster, Steve is dealing with living in a crime ridden neighborhood where most kids around his age are into drugs,

The song of songs it is a well-known but not so well understood book of the Bible, it’s 8 chapters of love poetry and while there are an introduction and a conclusion, the book doesn’t have any kind of rigid literary design and that’s because it is a collection of poems. They are not meant to be dissected or taken apart. They are meant to be read as a flowing whole and simply enjoyed. The first line of the book tells us that it is “the song of songs” which is a Hebrew idiom like, “the holy of holies” or “the king of kings” it is a Hebrew way of saying, “the greatest thing,” this is the greatest song of all songs. We are told in the first line that this “song of songs” is of Solomon, which could mean that he is the author, his name does begin the book after all. But as I read the poems, I discover that the main voice of a woman, called “the beloved.” And while there is also a male voice, it does not seem to be Solomon. Solomon is mentioned a couple times in the poem, but he’s never a speaker, and you do have to admit Solomon is a very strange candidate as the author of this book, given the facts that he seven hundred wines. The “of Solomon” likely means “in the wisdom tradition of Solomon,” he was known for his wisdom, his poetry, his love of learning about every part of life. Also, Solomon became the father of wisdom literature in Israel, his legacy is here carried on, through a collection of love poems that explore the human experience of love and sexual desire. The opening

For my second question I asked how was country music invented. Well researching my questions I found that country music was not created in Nashville. It was created in Bristol,Tennessee. I also found out that

Originally named The Muleskinners, The Hamilton County Bluegrass band was founded by a group of university students in Auckland in 1962.[9] For the young members, their first encounter with bluegrass would be the theme song “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” from the television show The Beverly Hillbillies. The show was one of the few American shows airing on New Zealand television at the time. The Flatt and Scruggs theme tune and Scruggs style banjo influenced player Paul Trenwith, who said “that’s how I wanted to learn banjo, and we found out there was a whole music genre that went with that, so we chased that up.”[10] Television was one of the key ways that the bluegrass genre was and still is transmitted internationally. The dominance of

This American rock group put nine singles on the Top 20. Bill Haley began his career as a country music singer.

Many songs that we listened to sounded like they came right out of Brave New World. The ones I liked most would have to be “Can't Feel My Face”, “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” and “I Am Produced”.

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

Blues and Country music: Origin, Stories, and Influence Music has been around for more than 100 years. Each year, the style of music is critiqued into something new. There are many genres in music history, as well. However, the genre's of music are completely different from one another. Each genre has its own unique way of expressing their stories and influencing the world.

I chose Keith Urban because he continues to ‘rewrite the rules of contemporary country music. By embracing drum loops and elements of Top 40 pop, Urban wrote songs that appealed to a wide audience’ - Andrew Leahey, unknown. He has an incredible passion for music, uses it in a way to express his thought and makes it his own. Keith Urban is a grammy-winning country musician and songwriter. Urban was born on the 26th of October, 1967, in Whangarei New Zealand.

Some African-Americans families settled in small towns which became predominantly black and poor. This occurred throughout Appalachia, where blacks and whites tended to live in separate towns. When black folk bands traveled to different festivals, they interacted with white folk artists and exchanged musical methods weather they knew it or not. Some of the songs from African-American folk artist were adopted by white banjo players as early as 1830s such as Dan Emmett and Billy Whitlock, who were part of a traveling minstrel show in Virginia according to historian George Gibson7. George suggests that the blending of white and black music took place well before the minstrel performers during the 1840s7. Which would allow for white folk artists to use their influence popularizing song material that would have not gained much notice if it was kept within the confines of the black folklore and

The band I pick was the Avett Brothers, mainly because I don’t know many bands. And they are a contemporary bluegrass band slash everything else. I heard about the Avett Brothers back home early on before they were big. They are from Concord, NC which is where they received from the Mullis family. Piano lessons from Karen, guitar lessons from Nelson, and banjo lessons from Ned. “They began with dreams of rock/pop stardom (Scott) and astronaut adventures (Seth). Eventually, they abandoned those dreams for the more attainable goals of folk and old-time stardom, and ultimately, abandoned these dreams for the even less likely dream of making a living playing original songs for people.” (1)

Bluegrass music has its earliest roots from the English, Irish and Scottish immigrants that settled in the Appalachian Mountains. These people brought with them the traditional folk songs of their homelands. This music blended and evolved into mountain, folk, hillbilly and even country music. Only after the music became influenced by jazz and blues of the African American people did it sound recognizable for what today is called bluegrass music. The men and groups of the first generation of bluegrass pioneered a new sound while playing their old time music.

For your post, you chose an applicable song to compare to The Mills Brothers. Similarly to The Mills Brothers, the Pitch Perfect group creates not only the singing, but music as well from their vocals. You mentioned that there are no differences regarding the two videos; however, while The Mills Brothers did the majority of the music with their voices, they still utilized a guitar to enhance the song. In the Pitch Perfect video, they did not employ any musical instrument. Are there any other songs that came to mind when viewing The Mills Brothers videos? Perhaps one helpful suggestion for your writing is to proofread before submitting your discussion. While there was not anything of significant importance that occurred due to your writing,

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