The Music Of Today 's Generation

In this generation, many popular musicians express the hardships brought forth by unrequited love in their songs. It is probably one of the most commonly conveyed subjects. Music artists such as Bruno Mars and his songs like “Grenade” is no exception to this popular trend. In the song “Grenade,” he reveals his persistent devotion for a girl. Lamentably, as a victim of unilateral love, he is inferior in the relationship. In the song, the girl seizes the dominant ability to manipulate Bruno Mars’ physical well-being and emotional negatively by being uninterested towards his love, and positively refusing to return his affection. From such a position of inferiority, Mars uses numerous rhetorical strategies such as literary devices, logical

Art has undoubtedly become a decisive aspect of our culture; embedded in the way we learn and grow on a daily basis. Art forms such as music, television and dance dominate our society as an outlet of freedom of speech for humanity. The evolution of music has rapidly exceeded its original classifications, developing new genres with greater appeal to an audience, hence its influence on society has expedited. In recent times, lyrics (specifically rap lyrics) have been introduced into the court room as a form of documented confessional evidence, evidently challenging law’s authoritative nature. This essay will closely follow the genre of rap and its relationship with law, through cases based in the United States of America (USA). In addition, the trial of Simon Bikindi in Rwanda and Smith v The Queen will be used to form an acute analysis on the influencing factors of relevance, identity, freedom of speech and current constitutional law.

The elements used in this concert were videos of a timeline of African-American dances. This was very helpful because it allowed the audience to know what time period they were looking at for a certain dance. There were different varies of costumes. There were costumes from the tribes danes, spiritual dances, 1902' dances as dancers, and etc. The dancers did an excellent job with combine the costumes to the era and it actually looked like pieces from that era. The lighting was very good and it allowed for the mood to be seen in the dances as well. When a dance needed to evoke a spiritual mood, the lighting would evoke that mood by only allowing light on the dancer and no one else. If it needed a joyful feeling, all the lights were on showing

I’m in love with music because it always seems to make my day go by better. Rap, recitals, jazz and classical concerts top in my music preferred list. My passion for music made me very excited about going the Columbus state musical concert held in the River Center of Performing Arts In the Legacy Room. The theatre is located in a nice location giving the audience a full range of sound and sight. The sounds are incredible and I really loved how I could hear everything. The stage can be seen from any place that one decides to stand on. For this particular concert, the venue was dimly lit. The concert staged was adorned by different musicians, with their amazing performances.. The audience could not help, but dance and sing along with the

Figure 3 Flow chart showing the change in the way music is distributed with the entrance of new actors such as streaming services (Oestricher & Kuzma, 2009)

Vocativ, a media and technology new company, calculated that the 2015 Grammys is the “whitest” Grammys in 35 years. This data composes of the lack of people of color nominations and winners in the top four categories – best song, best album, best new artist, and best record. This is important due to the recent social media points about cultural appropriation of minority cultures by white artist in pop and hip-hop records. The fear for hip-hop and rap is what happened to past genres that have black roots like, country, rock, and soul music –, which are all now predominantly white. There are hip hop artist like Harlem native female rapper,

The ever-changing landscape of music distribution, due to constant advancements in technology, is sometimes hard to keep up with for artist, producer, and consumer alike. New editions of textbooks in Music Business classes are issued each year, and changes are made in the industry before the semester is even over. Because of this, it is vital for the industry to not only not only be aware of what is currently going happening, but also be able to foresee the direction that the music business is heading in. In this aspect, it seems that we are at a turning point where consumers and artists are taking

How has music changed over the decades honestly? I mean now we have rap andhip & hop, what happened to the smooth and classical music from the 70’s. Today’s music hastook over the children’s minds and a lot of other people's minds also.i honestly like country, yes ilisten to one rap song and that is jumpman i love that song , but i listen to more country than i dorap honestly. Like for instance, how many kids listen to rap? A few of you, how many peoplelisten to country and the other types of music? Not a whole bunch, see rap and hip hop has takenover. Mrs. sagehorn for example she don't listen to rap or hip hop she listens to classical andsmooth music. Whatever you guys listen to is not my business but if you want to listen to thatupbeat music

There are many differences between today’s generation and the sixties generation. David Pichaske’s book titled Generation in Motion: Popular Music and Culture in the Sixties, outlines the views of the sixties and how they voiced those views. In the sixties music was the expression of the generation, in today’s society that hasn’t changed much. Music today also expresses the political events and views, but also social media has become a very popular source for expression of political views. As a generation we are passive, hiding behind our devices. Although, recently we have had big protests, such as black lives matter and police brutality.

Although some may suggest music can only serve for entertainment, music imposes a direct impact on the ideals and actions of today’s culture. In the past, the music of a culture greatly impacts the people and speaks what the people felt afraid to express. Different types of music reach different areas of the human brain, thus affecting the way people act in various ways. Music possesses such a deep impact on human brains it affects the way we act and process different situations we go through. Although music can serve entertainment purposes it affects our brains and actions deeply.

Using your own knowledge, and the websites above, describe some of your thoughts concerning the influence of technology on the development and proliferation of popular music.

In “The Music Industry Has Been Revolutionized,” Greg Kot explains musicians in the music industry are experiencing unwanted change around the world from technology since the popularity of file-sharing websites available online. Consumers of music don’t want to pay for music because of the increased availability, although not doing so prevents revenue for musicians. Explained in Kot’s article, increased popularity of file-sharing has made access to music so convenient to the point where the music industry is confused about how to respond to the lack of revenue while still keeping music readily available for consumer use. New technology has allowed the music industry more opportunities in being efficient with producing music. Furthermore, it

Over the decades, music has evolved; from the classics to today’s contemporary music. In the 1960’s it was all about The Beatles, 1970’s was about Pink Floyd, 1980’s was about the king of pop: Michael Jackson, Nirvana in the 1990’s, and Green Day in the 2000’s. However today’s artists are completely different from the previous generations in terms of composition and quality.

I have not been to many concerts in my life. I did not know what to expect when I went to see Lynyrd Skynyrd in concert last month. I saw Celine Dion in concert a few years ago and was very impressed by her beautiful stage set up; with the infallible theatrics of her performers and the wardrobe changes. I expected the Lynyrd Skynyrd concert to be similar, but it was nothing like that at all. I learned that not all concerts are created equal.

Technology is a brand new field nowadays, it is a field that people will need to study and develop since it brings our life much easier. But nothing is perfect, technology also draws a lot of attentions toward intellectual property. People are more concern about the impact of technology on modern music due to the growth of electronic formatting music. Everybody can modify, copy and cut music from CD or an electronic file. At this point, the traditional law is no longer apply to the current situation.