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The music video “Hawaii ’78” made popular by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole serves as the unofficial anthem for the Hawaiian renaissance movement by focusing on vivid historical imagery coupled with the song’s reflective lyrics to awaken in the audience a sense of urgency to address past transgressions of the native people. Music can be an incredibly powerful tool to communicate a story or to send a message to elicit a response by the audience, especially when the artist is so well loved and respected, and this is where my essay begins.

Music is an art form and source of power. Many forms of music reflect culture and society, as well as, containing political content and social message. Music as social change has been highlighted throughout the 20th century. In the 1960s the United States saw political and socially oriented folk music discussing the Vietnam War and other social issues. In Jamaica during the 1970s and 1980s reggae developed out of the Ghetto’s of Trench town and expressed the social unrest of the poor and the need to over-through the oppressors. The 1980’s brought the newest development in social and political music, the emergence of hip-hop and rap. This urban musical art form that was developed in New

Some may say music is just music; a song is just a song. However, music plays an enormous role in our psychology, because a single song has the ability to bring about many kinds of thoughts and emotions in the listener. Music is subtly one of the main factors in which people identify with certain groups and establish their belonging in society. It shapes people’s perspectives on how the world functions and the roles they play within it. Music can function the same way in a culture; it can reflect many of the culture’s values and ideologies. Music can have many effects on culture and the people’s idea of who they think they are within that culture. Music can serve in a way that promotes cultural identity and pride, yet it could also play a

This is article has taken an interest with both views of how music can affect you. The article examines Holocaust survivors and how they react to music. During the holocaust the Nazis used music as an element of torture. For instance, singing on command, where failure to obey or satisfy the guards could incur fatal consequences, was used to frighten, humiliate, and degrade prisoners. (Atarah 1223) Interviewing multiple survivors and examining how music effected their life before, during and after the Holocaust the article proves that it had

Music is a universal understanding of one’s culture. It allows people from all parts of the world to come together to appreciate and love one another for their differences. My mother is Filipino and my father is Mexican. Though both ethnicities are rich in history, I have chosen to specifically focus on the land of my father, Jalisco, Mexico. With lively rhythms, different vocalists, and historical dances, Jalisco’s music comes together to tell a story.

Haught in chapter 5 finds fault by the new atheists to describe their belief in an evolutionary way. Also, he disagrees that an evolutionary statement does not rule out a accessorial religious or religious clarification. He continuously points out the perspective that the new atheists us the term “faith” in an incorrect way. “The state of being drawn toward or being grasped by something of utmost importance,” Haught states. When the term “faith” is applied the correct way a spiritual reason furthermore to an evolutionary one is not difficult.

Music is heard differently through diverse cultures, which brings new and unlike interpretations on events in history and events to

background on his family, like the fact that his grandparents emigrated from Afghanistan. We learn that his grandparents escaped war in Afghanistan to come to the United States. His grandparents had hopes of a better life for their children and future grandchildren. Readers also learn about the holidays and practices his family takes part in like Ramadan. We also get to learn about Jay, who is white, Catholic, middle class, and lives with his parents. The most interesting part about Jay is we get to watch as he tries to assimilate into the school as a new student. Readers also watch as Jay has to make sense of the discrimination he sees and hears. For example, when Azeem is arrested, Jay has a difficult time believing what the news has to say about Azeem being a home grown terrorist. When he discusses the event with his mother, he explains to her, “I

Daniel Libeskind was born in Lodz, Poland on May 12, 1946, to Polish-Jewish parents the year after World War II ended. His parents were Holocaust survivors, but living in postwar Eastern Europe they found that the formal end of the Holocaust did not bring an end to Anti-Semitism violence. As Libeskind told Stanley Meisler of the Smithsonian, “Anti-Semitism is the only memory I still have of Poland. In school. On the streets. It wasn 't what most people think happened after the war was over. It was horrible.” As a child, his parents wanted him to learn an instrument but felt that bringing a piano into the house would draw too much attention. Thus, they bought him an accordion, an instrument that could easily be concealed. With this learned skill, Libeskind reached a small amount of fame at a young age. Libeskind and his family led a nomadic life: at eleven, he moved with his family to Israel. Here, he switched to the piano and eventually won an American-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship, which enabled the family to move to the United States. Consequently, at thirteen years old, they moved to New York. As Libeskind recalls: “I arrived by ship to New York as a teenager, an immigrant, and like millions of others before me, my first sight was the Statue of Liberty and the amazing skyline of Manhattan. I have never forgotten that sight or what it stands for.”

Ha and her family are on board the ship for weeks, sailing toward Thailand. Food and water are scarce, but the people on board are cautiously hopeful about what could happen next. Ha and her siblings use the time to practice their English. Salvation appears in the form of an American naval vessel, which distributes food and supplies, and tows the boat to Guam where a refugee camp has been established. There, Ha learns about how most of the refugees are either going to France, Canada, or the United States. Ha and her family decide to travel to the United States. They are sponsored by a Southern farmer named Mr. Johnston, who helps the family to settle in Alabama and looks after their interests. Ha’s mother insists they assimilate into American society as quickly as possible, shutting out their old lives

Hulga, the protagonist of this short story, is thirty-two years old, she has spent most of her life in school, and has earned a doctoral degree in philosophy. However, her poor health or “weak heart” keeps her living on a rural farm surrounded by people with little or no education and this keeps her from the life that she always desired, that is to teach philosophy at a University. She suffers from many illnesses such as a heart condition, blindness, and an artificial leg, which represents her emotional, intellectual and spiritual impairment. Hulga believes that formal education automatically makes people intelligent, or capable to know more than others, and she thinks that she has nothing left to learn. This makes her blind to people around

This music originated mostly from Eastern Europe (Countries like the Balkans, Romania, and Bulgaria) and moved westward northward throughout Europe, later to North America. Unlike the Mizrahi music, European and Western Jews have their own specific music mostly fix on religious ceremonies and celebrations. In this study, I’ll be focusing on Ashkenazi music, mainly its traditions, origin and the progress transitions from old traditional folk music to present day folk or folkloric music. Next, I will be focusing on Mizrahi music and how politically Secular Mizrahi music could help the environment of the Middle East. Lastly, I will be focusing about how devotional and secular music is influencing today in Israel and its citizens. Traveling to Israel is not my first time, for I personally lived in Israel and nostalgically I miss to go back. In my own experience living there in the city, Tel-Aviv, I always remember the music environment- a time when my neighbor next door during a holiday season at the evening would often play one of Zohar Argov’s song Badad" (Lonesome) a Mizrahi song from the 90s. The music inspired me as a kid and always wanted to find new songs in Israel; which therefore it let me do this research to study the folk music typically the Mizrahi descends artist and their culture. Moreover, it is also important for me to do this research about the Israeli folk music because my goal is I to increase diplomacy with Israelis and Arabs especially with Palestinians. In addition, I hope by doing this reach can influence other Arabs and Israel to establish friendship through music and by sharing understanding each one’s culture and to set an agreement between them; even though the situation between the governments are disagreeing and hate each other. By doing so, the goal is to change people’s

Israeli folk dance was created by using elements from other dance cultures with themes and music of modern Israel. In this paper, I will argue that while anti-Semitism resulted in the colonization of Jewish national identity, women re-created Israeli folk dance as a means to establish a new Jewish identity, as well as an identity for themselves. By focusing on Romania and Yemen, we will identify the vestiges of colonialism in Israeli folk dance, and

The musical West Side Story (1957), for which Bernstein composed to music for, served as a turning point in American cultural life. As Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter told Bernstein at the musical’s performance in Washington, “The history of America is now changed” (Peyser 277). Evidently so, since West Side Story told the tale of poor street gangs in New York’s slums, rather than the typical glamorous, happy stories that were typically performed on Broadway at the time. Some of the themes of the musical included bigotry and violence, making its positive reception so unexpected. More important, that the musical’s co-creators were all gay, Jewish men--a conventionally oppressed minority--reveals the integrity of the American Dream.

In 1973, exactly twenty-five years prior to my birth, my parents were just in elementary school. They told me stories about their lives back then but none contained any traces of music. The only stories about music back in those years were from my grandmother. Back then, my parents grew up in Viet Nam in a poor family with no televisions so they couldn’t really listen to any music growing up. Although my parents could not listen to music on television like how we can now; they were able to come to live performances by local artists held at the district’s performance center every other month because the shows were free. My grandmother told me that the music back then was really different than how it is now. The songs served many purposes to the citizens, it was an encouragement to soldiers at war, it was the rhythm that put kids to sleep, it was the comfort food for everyone who listen. Grandma told me the style