The Sound Of Music From Johnny Cash To Elvis

Johnny Cash was interested in music at a very young age. When he was young, he loved listening to the radio to get away from “the daily grind of farming” (Cusic, 2014). He didn’t begin his singing career right after growing up in Arkansas though. He went to college, had a factory job, and was in the U.S. Air Force (Cameron, 2004). He began playing the guitar in Germany while working as a radio operator for the U.S. Air Force (Cusic, 2014). After appearing on one of Bob Dylan’s albums, Nashville Skyline, he became more popular with adolescent fans (Cameron, 2004).

The Golden Age began the tradition of transforming classic literature into musical theater. During the 1950s, directors and collaborators took a central role in integrating movement and dance fully into musical theater productions. Many productions emphasized the storytelling power of dance. West Side Story (1957), a musical where dance held an integral part in, was a retelling of Romeo and Juliet to modern-day New York City. Guys and Dolls (1950), My Fair Lady (1956), The Music Man (1957), and Gypsy (1959) were all very influential and successful musicals of that time. The 1950s ended with Roger and Hammerstein’s last hit, The Sound of Music, and with its extremely successful film version, it became one of the most popular musicals in history.

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The film Walk the Line, directed by James Mangold, conveys the story of a man by the name Johnny Cash. Throughout the film, the viewers are carried through an emotional journey filled with love, life, and creativity. The viewers follow Johnny Cash’s journey to marry June Carter, the woman of his dreams. Like Walk the Line, Country music is all about emotions; Johnny used his utmost creativity by writing songs, allowing him to vent his eclectic feelings. Johnny displays his emotion of life when he visits Folsom prison. While at Folsom prison Johnny can

These songs were later used when Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two signed with Sun Records. While trying to become a performer, Cash married Vivian Liberto. Johnny Cash’s fame picked up fast as he reached top 20 in the billboards with “Cry, Cry, Cry.” While Cash’s initial status doesn’t follow a traditional Shakespearean mold, he achieves legendary status through his singing

Johnny Cash was born J.R. Cash on February 26, 1932 to Ray and Carrie Rivers Cash. Cash moved to at the age of three and grew up in Dyess,Arkansas on a 20 acre cotton farm where he worked beside his family. He had very little education. As a child, John was very close with his older brother Jack. Jack died in May 1944 of a fatal saw mill injury where he was pulled into the saw head. Jack had suffered over a week before he died. Johnny had horrible guilt he felt from this incident. Cash said that he was looking forward seeing his brother in heaven.

Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, though his twin brother sadly did not make it. Presley came from very a humble background with working-class parents, though his family had little money they moved around a lot. But they had very strong faith. Elvis went with his parents to church where he heard gospel music spiking his interest in music. At the age of eleven he received his first guitar as a birthday present form his mother. He also won his high school talent show then soon after his graduation he begin to work in the music industry. He soon created his fist record, the record label owner Sam Phillips took Presley under his wing and in 1954 he got his big break and released his first single. Sadly, Presley passed on August 16th 1977 at the age of 42. His death was caused by heart failure do to his drug use. (biography.com).

Most of us know the Man in Black, but do we truly know him? His life was a country song full of love and loss, passion and heartbreak — grief, loneliness, guilt, faith, melodrama and striving for redemption. Johnny Cash overcome all of this and became the king of country music (Kakutani).

The music is everywhere in the story. In this case the music symbolizes the characters feelings, and the setting. For example Connie listens to music in which she dreams about boys in her life. The two characters, Connie and Arnorld friend listen to similar music (sexual) and this shows Connie desires to grow up fast instead of living her childhood. Connie views herself as an older person because she goes to a place where older teen socialize. She lies to her parents and is tire of them comparing her to the sister. The sister is there to show Connie is different from her. Connie dresses older than she really is. Connie knows she is beautiful because she thinks her mom likes her because she is prettier than the sister. Connie is a romantic and wishes to find a guy just like the music she hears.

As a young man, I camped with my father on an island, and we fished from the rocks along the shore of a lake. He told me eventually they would sink through the island floor. I watched an occasional redwing or waterfowl perch for an instance before taking flight only to land again on the rock.

In July of 1953, Elvis recorded his first single, a ballad named “My Happiness,” and he also covered the 1951 hit by the Ink Spots called “That’s Where Your Heartaches.” He got his first call from Sun Records in June of 1954, and Sam Phillips, head of Sun Records, had Elvis record four songs with guitarist Scotty Moore, and bassist Bill Black, who would eventually would band members and friends for the next few years. Not only was Elvis a rising star in the music business, he was also up and coming as an actor. In 1956, he starred in his first movie named “Loved Me Tender” playing the role of Clint Reno. He went on to star in 34 more movies and in his music career he had 110 titles, albums, and singles that are classified as gold, silver or

So way way back in 1959, Johnny Cash and Elvis toured together. It goes without saying we would've loved to experience that show. And it would've been an experience. Cashed opened for Elvis, and while the two weren't besties, Cash said he admired Presley's showmanship (well duh). And each night, “Cash would impersonate his friend and touring partner, and then Elvis would come out and do the same. Two characters just having a good ol’ time whilst simultaneously creating the genre of rock and roll.” If anyone has the footage of Elvis imitating Cash, please send it along promptly. And props to the writer at Open Culture for recommending Million Dollar Quartet, the recordings that "capture Cash and Presley’s impromptu jam session with Carl Perkins

The video captures the essence of the song perfectly: Cash’s life explored with flashbacks of the past and images of his present self in 2002. The song depicts a great long life filled with pain, love, and regret.

One would have to say that one of the most notable features of the film would have to be its soundtrack, which incorporates no music but only diegetic sound, from the preliminary noise of the river flowing under the bridge through the even louder sounds of the forthcoming American tanks to the quaking clamors of the ending battle scenes. A prodigious example of sound transpires within the middle of the film. It is when the boys are woken from their cots and called into combat; the sequence features electronically distorted sounds that together equally insinuate the boys’ disorientation as well as the disorientation of the viewers.

The beginning as exciting as it may seem, it is just a piece necessary to get you to keep wanting more. With this basic plot put into place or melody in this case a jazz soloist would improvise his music. Almost just as the author seems to improvise in Jazz, constantly reinventing, re-harmonizing, and shifting back and forth through various characters throughout the book. As the narrator of the novel sets up the basic theme, one by one, other characters are introduced, putting their own spin on what has happened, and allowing the reader to relive the experience through their perspective; thus, the variations on the theme. Its clear the novel structure borrows deeply from jazz music. When a jazz player did there solo he/she would interpret the beat differently and play ones own perception of the music. It would seduce people with its sexiness and spur women like Dorcas or make old women clutch their pearls, like Alice. This is the kind of drama where only the Jazz Era can provide the cheating spouses, the willful women, people with knives and guns and illegitimate children. The Jazz music within the novel even depicts the very environment the book takes place. Both the City and the woods of Virginia are described as having their own music and rhythm and the pace of the narrator 's storytelling ranges from upbeat and fast to slow and "bluesy."