Bob Peterson

In hindsight, all of these artists were the foundation of what lies on the horizon, a revolution that would evolve into a dynasty that hasn't been seen since the Renaissance and one unlikely to be repeated. Just as these artists were influencing me, they were influencing others ─ others with vastly better skills than I could ever fathom. On the smaller stages of the Los Angeles club scene, a band was mixing the sound, style, and showmanship into a cacophonous stew, gently boiling and carefully

Charles Hardin Holley, or as we all know him, Buddy Holly was amongst the most influential singer/songwriters of the rock and roll generation. He was a very popular artist. While traveling to one of his concert venues, the plane he chartered unexpectedly crashed killing him and two other mainstays of 50s rock and roll, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. It is this incident that drove Don McLean to write the song American Pie which, to this day, remains one of the most widely talked about and debated

that I will mention, used that platform to speak about important events happening in the world. Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Minnesota, Duluth (Biography.com). He changed to “Bob Dylan” during his college years by performing folk and country songs (Biography.com). It is believed that his girlfriend at the time was hugely influential in his activist ways (Corbett, 2017). During the 1960s, Bob Dylan was known to write protest

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised The Revolution Will Not Be Televised may be considered one of the greatest works of art of the twentieth century. It was said that the poem has influenced many common day artists such as Kanye West, Queen Latifah, and Lupe Fiasco. Gil Scott Heron was born in Chicago on April 1st, 1949 in Chicago Illinois. As a child, he was raised in Tennessee by his Grandmother. Later on, he moved to New York then attending Lincoln University for college. He was also addicted

Beatles in 1964. Buddy Holly was only twenty-two years old on that tragic day near Clear Lake, Iowa, and had only started what would have been a very long and successful career. He influenced many of the best Rock and Roll groups to come including Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and

Woodstock Music Festival The Woodstock Music Festival took place in 1969 and lasted for 4 days from August 15-18. This event was all about drugs and rock in roll and a few more negative things, but we are going to stick to the rock in roll part for right now. Woodstock was a giant festival that last 4 days total and impacted many lives in a negative and positive way. Set originally to only include three bands they ended up with 32 band playing. This was a major change in the festival because

Rubin “Hurricane” Carter is a well-known boxer who was found guilty of three murders committed and was sentenced to three times a life sentence, although he believes it was due to racial discrimination, being appealed to racism and not reason, and lastly concealment not disclosure. Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was born on May sixth, 1937 in Clifton, New Jersey; although he lived most of his life in Paterson, New Jersey. He survived his childhood by learning fast. At age nine, him and his friends stole

In 1972, Dr. Seuss published “The Lorax”. The story is about of strange isolated man who lives in a very polluted area. The strange man called the Once-ler is visited by a curious young boy who is seeked to hear the legend of the Lorax. The Once-ler tells the boy of his arrival to a valley filled with Truffula trees and a range of animals. The Once-ler, in his long anticipation of seeing a Truffula tree, began to chop down the tree to use its silk like texture to put together his versatile invention

Despite Haverstock’s initial hesitance, once he has permission from Carol, he schemes his way around the communication restrictions on their rescue boat and gets the story to print in the United States. Once safely in London, he and Carol continue their dedication to journalism by reporting and urging American intervention, all while an air raid strikes the city. The dedication shown at the end of Foreign Correspondent better matches the journalists in All the President’s Men and Spotlight. Woodward

The thirteenth chapter of the book Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader focuses on the cultural symbiosis of rock music and politics during the 1960’s. The Members formed a counterculture that uses the music tied to the movement as a tool in order to spread the political beliefs. Music functioned as a symbol and core theme against the Vietnam war that the subordinate group carried out against hegemonic capitalist America. Engaging Antonio Gramsci’s theories regarding hegemony the in the