The French Music

Another thing was the music of the 1940s, the 1940s was the decade of “the crooner” as the other form of entertainment the musical entertainment also played tribute to the war by many popular songs like “God Bless America”. This songs were sometimes were taken to war and it made solders said that the music took them home and they loved it.

Music in the 1930s distracted everyone from what was actually going on. It made the people happy and that is all the leaders of America wanted such as President Roosevelt. However, when the depression seemed to to lift, it eventually got worse. Although, music brought the people to life and together just like it does today. It is important and interesting to learn about the struggles, the happiness, and the music of the Great Depression.

Historical events and conditions in the 1940s affected music. Several events happened in the 1940s. Music was a popular topic in the 1940s. Music was affected by umpteen things in the 1940s. There are plenty of other popular topics in the

In 1959- early 1960 five directors released debut feature length films that are widely regarded as heralding the start of the French nouvelle vague or French New Wave. Claude Chabrols Le Beau Serge (The Good Serge, 1959) and Les Cousins (The Cousins, 1959) were released, along with Francois Truffauts Les Quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows, 1959), Jean-Luc Godards A bout de souffle (Breathless, 1960) and Alain Resnais Hiroshima mon amour (Hiroshima my love, 1959). These films were the beginning of a revolution in French cinema. In the following years these directors were to follow up their debuts, while other young directors made their first features, in fact between 1959-63 over 170 French directors made their debut

Many artists were drafted into service to fight the wars and killed. Because of the political movements in Italy and Germany, some composers fled their native lands mainly to the United States. Those composers found the employment in American colleges and schools of music (Zorn and August 2006). The changes in the commercial aspect of music distribution along with new means of music communication occurred in this period. There were many organized concert series in large and small urban centers. Music for motion pictures became one of the important music outlets. Yet writing music for the new musical genre, films was on the periphery if the musical mainstream, films reached the biggest number of audience. Begging in the first half of the twenties century, recordings and radio became a big deal. Those were heard in all kinds of surroundings; at home, the market, the office, the factory, the playground, and even the sports field (Wold, Martin, Miller, and Cykler 1990,

After World War I, tensions between countries around the world remained high causing many people to struggle with the stress and worries of a post war society. In fact, according to author Kimberly Elliot, “[t]he unprecedented carnage and destruction of the war stripped this generation of their illusions about democracy, peace, and prosperity, and many expressed doubt and cynicism in their artistic endeavors”. Music became a coping mechanism and distraction during this difficult period of time. For many musicians and entertainers, “...the desire for escapism and the introduction in 1915 of leave for the troops at the Front encouraged ever more elaborate entertainment, a phenomenon which continued in the immediate postwar era…” (Hewitt). Although the war brought pain to many people, it also served as inspiration for what would become some of the most popular music of the 1920’s. People sought after music not only because it helped them to cope, but because it allowed them heal: “...[T]he healing power of the blues is not so

Music censorship in the 1960’s and after, was an actual problem that most

	For the next few years, Stravinsky and Diaghilev worked very closely together. Diaghilev wanted all of Stravinsky’s new works to be produced by his company. Stravinsky's next two works for the ballet, Petrouchka (1910-11) and The Rite of Spring (1912-13) are perfectly crafted, powerful pieces, drawing on Stravinsky's rhythmic and harmonic imagination. The most amazing part is that Stravinsky had not even reached middle age at the time he composed these pieces. The Rite of Spring created a violent reaction because no one had ever heard music that carried this much premature power. It was almost as though there was a sense of jealousy from his colleagues. The entire musical establishment criticized stravinsky, but he didn’t really seem to care.

During World War II, jazz music became a powerful tool utilized by both sides of the conflict. With the popularity of jazz and swing at its peak in America, German political figures were quick to recognize its impact on the country’s youth and did anything they could to rid their nation of what they saw as an impure and “subhuman” art form. Jazz and swing went on to become a powerful motivator for people on either side of the conflict. It also served to unite a diverse group of people in opposition to the Nazi regime.

From doing this first assignment project, I learned how focused the French culture is on art and how involved it is in their everyday lives. Art can come in so many forms in the French culture, a few being paintings, sketches, sculpting, and making music. As well as this, I learned about Impressionism which is a form of art that specifically came from the French culture in the 1870s and the 1880s. This form of art was created by a group of Impressionists whom were all French. Lastly, I learned how the French culture is full of elegance and love, which is also displayed through their artwork as well.

Music played a major role in the way people lived during the World War II era. It affected the way people coped and the way people grieved. While this era was a very serious and bleak time, people still found joy in music. World War II was the first war to happen in the age of electronically mass distributed music. The role of music during this time helped keep positive spirits among people all around the world. On a different note, the Germans played music to their soldiers to motivate them to continue to fight. Music was used as propaganda throughout the countries involved to gain public support.

The outbreak of World War II stopped him in his tracks. Just like his father and uncle, Lutoslawksi and his brother were taken prisoner by the Germans, however, Lutoslawski was able to escape with his life. Returning to Warsaw, he was hired as the in house pianist at a café accompanying vocalists. Lutoslawski began writing transcriptions of popular classical pieces for piano duet with his friend Andrzej Panufnik, one of the most famous being Variation on a Theme by Paganini. After the war, communism spread in Poland, and Lutoslawski’s music was affected as well. Music was turned into a form of propaganda, and Lutoslawski wrote folk tunes and melodies into all of his works. His music was labelled “Formalist” and was banned from performance. To still make a living, Lutoslawski was forced to break away from his own creativity and write piano works for students and children, as well as music for the radio. The forced structure was far from what he would develop later as his signature style. A modern composer, he would blend folk rhythms and harmonies seamlessly with tone rows of his own creation, evident in his work Five Songs to Kazimiera Illakowiczowna’s Poems. Lutoslawski also delved into the world of chance music with his trademark “controlled aleatorism.” His extensive use of ad libidum created scores almost unrecognizable, and completely avant-garde. Very few at the time knew that even while Lutoslawski was made famous by his modern creations and entirely avant-garde style, he was still making a living writing music for students and pop tunes for radio and dance under the pseudonym

Learning about how composers continued to compose and add resisting elements to their compositions was fascinating. Viktor Ullman created his most famous piece, Der Kaiser von

Music plays a significant rule in our lives. It’s a melody and rhythm we live in. It plays a very essential rule in our day to day to life when it comes to expressing feelings, passing time and for other uses as well. Though we in general may not think about how music has changed so much in the past few decades we must acknowledge the fact todays music is the outcome of the various change in the past. Today’s majority of music we hear is what we define as more as a “westernized” music. Considering other cultures in the world, a huge impact of western music is seen within them. Westernization and modernization are two different words with different meanings and they have two different impacts on a society. Modernization is used to define the improvements and show a progressive transition from one stage to another. Westernization is the concept of being influenced by the customs and techniques of the western society and reflecting them in a non-western culture. This essay will discuss furtherly about the impact of the western society on music cultures of North India and Korea by looking from both the positive and negative point of this impact.

The French are all about preserving their culture and being individualized. They often take great pride in the French products and the French style, and believe in keeping the French culture “pure” so they also limit the amount of foreign goods that are being imported. But during the World Wars the French began to allow foreigners to immigrate into France to take jobs due to an increase in job shortages. The immigration from the World Wars added to the diversity of the French culture. Ever since the 1850’s there has been a steady flow of immigration into France, and now nine percent of the French population is made up of immigrants (Gofen 62). The break down of the cultures in France is eighty-five percent of the French population is Roman