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Every culture has some tradition of music. Music is a part of both folk and popular culture traditions, it can be utilized to illustrate the differences in the origin, diffusion, and distribution of folk and popular culture. Music reflects a country's ethnic population through a diverse array of styles. Folk and popular music shows the distinction in people's everyday lives. The more developed a country is the more likely that MDC will have popular music and the less developed a country is the more

Moonshining in the Carolinas Are you proud of your heritage? Moonshine making can be found in many southern family’s heritage. According to Ed Grabianowski, the prohibition of the 1920’s increased the demand for moonshine. This increased the number of people making moonshine for a living. While moonshining in the Carolinas is fascinating to some, others may ask: what is moonshine, is it dangerous, and can people still find it today in our society? According to Encyclopedia.com, moonshine is the

“Riptide” is an awesome indie folk and indie pop song with a fun riff, beachy feel, steady tempo and very is unique to other songs. It was created by Vance Joy, who had been working on the song for about four years. He started in 2008, and during an interview, he had said, “The words came to me without meaning,” although a few lyrics relate to his personal life, such as “I was scared of dentists and the dark, I was scared of pretty girls and starting conversations,” where he was actually a shy kid

While it is widely rumored that many of Bob Dylan’s songs were written while he was under the influence of various drugs, I’m not so sure that those rumors are accurate. Following a 1991 interview conducted by Paul Zollo with Bob Dylan, Zollo stated that “There’s an unmistakable elegance in Dylan’s words, an almost biblical beauty” and that “Dylan’s answers give you a lot to think about while not necessarily revealing much about the man”. (Zollo 2) The same can be said with regard to many of the

Abigail Williams The song “Rollercoaster” by the Bleachers is a good song that can be easily relatable with the character Abigail Williams from The Crucible. Abigail and the song share many characteristics that help them relate. Abigail gets a lot of people killed, she is exciting, and she is like a teenager who ran away. When Abigail Williams took control of the town of Salem, Massachusetts, she got a lot of people killed. She could be classified as a “killer queen” as mentioned in the song “Rollercoaster”

Lucian Charles Grainge, born on February 29, 1960, is the present chairman and chief executive officer of Universal Music Group, the most famous music corporation in the world that also owns one of the largest publishing companies around. I have decided to conduct my research on this particular person of interest because of his recent work that has inspired a generation of artists and music lovers. Over the course of his career he has worked with artists such as Amy Winehouse, ABBA, Rihanna, Sam

On June 7th, 1997 a man by the name of James Byrd Jr. was wrongfully murdered in Jasper, Texas. The three murderers acted out of their negative racial bias toward James Byrd Jr., two of the three murderers were sentenced to death and the third to life in prison. Their names were Shawn Allen Barry, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and John William King. Brewer and King were well known white supremacists in the area with tattoos depicting their beliefs and belonging to their hate groups. Barry was sentenced

think of a musician. We, as a society, under appreciate the work of great musicians of our time as well as past times. For example, William Byrd was an extremely influential musician who lived from 1538-1623. He is responsible for choir pieces consisting of four (or more) voice parts. Throughout his lifetime, he made many uncertain opportunities. William Byrd beneficially impacted his society through the risks he took in his music. In order to understand someone’s accomplishments and later life,

be talking keeping in mind the end goal to keep up the delay. This changed when Robert Byrd was Senate Majority Leader. Byrd (and his gathering) founded a "two-track" framework, changing the standards so that the Senate could desert the delayed movement and proceed onward to different business. This change was made in light of the fact that delays were seen as valuable, however excessively obstructionist, and Byrd felt the Senate required the adaptability to have the capacity to proceed onward to different

Elizabethan Era Music Music is present in every culture’s past, present, and future. It has been around since 500 B.C. and was especially important in the Elizabethan Era. There were reinventions of music as it was widespread and popular. Without this essential time in history, modern music may have been completely different from what we have today. This era brought new uses for music, styles of compositions, new instruments, and the uprising of popular composers. Many new music styles were