Doo-wop

Review of Brian Wilson live at the Hop Farm Festival, Kent, England – 5th July 2014 Last summer I got the chance to see Brian Wilson perform live with a backing band comprising of Al Jardine (The Beach Boys) and younger session musicians Matt Jardine, Darian Sahanaja and Scott Bennett. Having missed out on getting tickets to the Beach Boys 50th anniversary concert in London a couple of years earlier, I jumped at the chance to see the band’s frontman when he scheduled a show just an hour away from

I liked the poem “Monologue for an Onion” by Suji Kwock Kim. My paraphrase for the poem is this: “An onion tells the human there is no point cutting it because there will only be onion underneath its layers. It criticizes the human for acting brutally with little results to show for it. Even if humans want to understand everything, they aren’t able to. Although the onion was the one cut, the human is more affected and changed as a result. A human’s heart has more complexity than an onion and will

Music Notes: Midterm One Introduction Studying Rock: * Fan mentality: reject other forms of music * Gold Records: 500,000 copies * Platinum Records: 1 million copies Themes: * Social, political, and cultural issues * Issues of race, class, and gender * The development of the music business * The development of technology The Popularity Arc: * Mainstream popularity is the ‘peak’ * Genres tend to develop underground and aren’t written about historically during

different way living his dream. Rap Music is “a popular music idiom marked by the rhythmical intoning of rhymed couplets to an insistent beat.” It is very popular among kids and young adults. “But G-Eazy’s music is different, He samples a lot of doo wop 80s songs”(Emma Brown). Hip hop music was formed in the 1970’s at new york city block parties (“Hip Hop Music”). Young people from the bronx were break dancing, djing, and rapping at these parties (“Hip Hop Music”). Gerald Earl Gillum, aka G-Eazy

When Tricia Rose speaks to the concept of “hip hop wars” in her writing, she is referring to a broad range of different conflicts that are taking place in all areas of hip hop. In the introduction to her book, she begins to explain her multitude of concerns surrounding certain topics in hip hop. She begins by saying that the most financially successful hip hop has become a way of caricaturing “black gangstas, pimps and hoes” (p. 1). She goes on to explain that homophobia, hypersexism, antisocial

I am a strong independent woman who don’t need no man, so I did this project single handedly. I worked on the topics such as Fashion, Art, and Entertainment. My most favorite topic about the 50s would have to be fashion, mainly because of my interest in the culture of the time. after World War II there wasn’t a shortage of fabrics anymore so people would experiment more with fabrics such as, taffeta, wool, nylon, rayon, leather, along with many others. Also different styles and patterns grew to

a majority of American youth find underage drinking okay. This song also seems to say that the youth find nothing wrong with casual sex. And after listening to just one night of the daily news, many would agree to the above ideas. Even the song “Doo Wop (That Thing)” by Lauryn Hill suggests that American youth are casually having sex and immaturely doing so. In her song she warns today’s youth to be careful and not get caught up in the game. “Giving it up so easy you ain’t even foolin’ him…Showing

Ed Fletcher was one of the creators of the song “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, which was released in 1982. This song depicted a horrible scene of blacks living in the ghettos, which was relevant socially because of the issue of racism that was being addressed, and had been an issue for a long time. Although the book didn’t mention much about his personal life, as a black man it is obvious why he would want to create a song that addresses racism towards blacks. “The Message”

A quintuple threat, Lauryn Hill is a master singer, songwriter, actor, rapper, and producer. The arts and entertainment world knows her name, and knows it well, for many of her great works. She is a woman of many sides, from mother to award winner. Number Ten: Grammy Nominee and Award Winner Lauryn Hill was nominated for 10 Grammy awards in 1999 making her the first woman to boast of so many nominations in one year in Grammy history. She won five Grammys in that year including Best R&B Album, Best

in this complex story. When the performers took the stage for the opening act, I immediately knew that dance technique was going to be a key element in this production. I enjoyed the variety of movement and was quickly drawn in by the upbeat rock, doo wop and early Motown music. In this essay, I will examine the dance techniques that most helped further the story and express the theme.