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Richard Rogers was born June 28, 1902 in Long Island, New York. His father was a successful physician and his mother was an amateur musician. In Roger’s childhood, he heard music most everyday and was regularly taken to the theatre. When Roger’s was six he could play the piano by ear. He enjoyed listening to small operas, which are also known as operettas. Later, Rogers was inspired by Jerome Kern’s musicals. Rogers attended secondary schools in New York. When he was fourteen he had already written

cementing the trend as male. The academic neglect of women in subcultures has been addressed by Garber and McRobbie (2000). The invisibility of women in popular culture could originate from Hoggart’s Uses of Literacy (1957), which situates interest in music and socialising outside home as a male pastime. Teddy Girls also attract less commentary because, unlike ted boys, the method of transmitting identity (clothing) did not differ from middle class young women. The violence and aggression of Teddy Boys

much older mentor who taught Ray how to play. Eventually, Ray learned how to read and write music in Braille and he furthered his skills as a piano player while he attended the school for the deaf and blind. Ray listened to a wide variety of music when he was growing up and he enjoyed all genres of music. Moreover, he didn’t want to limit himself to only doing one style of music. Ray’s main styles of music were jazz, gospel,

in developing new forms of music such as jazz fusion. Like many famous twentieth century composers and artists, Davis grappled throughout his career with drug abuse, however, his music is still inspirational today and will impact and influence future generations and push them to their creative boundaries. Miles Dewey Davis III was born in Alton, Illinois on 26 May 1926, and was raised in an upper middle class home in East St. Louis. His father was a dentist and music teacher who introduced his

Hip Hop is a genre of music consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. Hip-hop is not only a genre of music its a form of art and culture. It can also be a style and language. Hip Hop is described as accompanying background music but is often a synonym to rap music. In this paper I will show how rap got started and evolved into the culture we know today as Hip Hop. There were many influences of rap music as early as the 1940's

SING SING SING I used to always go over to my grandparent’s house and watch my grandfather go crazy over this “Jazz” music. He explained to me that it wasn’t Jazz unless it swung like the greats. I listened to a song “Sing Sing Sing” the other day from one of my Jazz collections that my grandpa gave to me and realized that their was so much energy and pizzazz in this music. He explained to me that it was all put together by a guy named Benny, and I understood why. Benny Goodman, born

employees selling radios out of a store. The company grew to fame to its innovation of the portable Walkman. In 1979 song created the first ever portable music player. The Walkman was created by Nobutoshi Kihara and the creator of the company Masaru Ibuka. It was Ibuuka idea to build the Walkman. He told the designer to build something small that you have listen to music on the go. So on July 1st 1979 the Product came on the market. At the time the company made 30,000 Walkman and they hope the consumer

ideologies and their fashion sense provided ‘outsiders’ with almost a ‘shortcut to meaning’ (Richard Dyer, 1979) of what the subcultures stood for, what their values were, and

elements. In hip hop music, a break is any short piece of music that can be sampled and repeated over and over to create its own melody or drum loop, creating what's called a "Break Beat". Originally hip hop artists & producers would sample breaks from jazz records, and then cut and loop them together to create unique music for a new song. Today, ANY previously created song or music across any genre, as well as any interesting section of a song (even sound clips not necessarily from music)

Gothic music became an important part of the subculture which proliferated during the 1980s and 1990s and often deals with thought provoking topics, concentrating on religion, death and the issue of societal evils such as racism and war. The first Music genre defined as a separate movement from post-punk scene was Gothic Rock, due to its darker music accompanied by haunting sounds, guitars with a more apocalyptic flair, drums, lyrics about death, religion and love bands in this genre included London