Essays Tagged: "Pop music"

Alanis Morissette

doThat on Television", the hit Canadian kids' series, that made it big in theU.S.. Sure, she had a pop music career at an age when girls are supposed tobe worried about their homecoming dates, not th ...

(2 pages) 24 0 3.8 Oct/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Alanis Morissette

doThat on Television", the hit Canadian kids' series, that made it big in theU.S.. Sure, she had a pop music career at an age when girls are supposed tobe worried about their homecoming dates, not th ...

(2 pages) 32 0 4.7 Oct/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Alanis Morissette

doThat on Television", the hit Canadian kids' series, that made it big in theU.S.. Sure, she had a pop music career at an age when girls are supposed tobe worried about their homecoming dates, not th ...

(2 pages) 26 0 4.2 Oct/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Guitar Pickups By, Ernesto Sanchez A complete guide to the anatomy history invention and impact f guitar pickups.Includes Bibliography.

Guitar PickupsThe electric guitar is part of the reason why pop music is what it is today. The electric guitar would be a useless hunk of materials without one ... ar has been influential in the development of other forms of music. Among many are Jazz, Blues, and Pop music.The guitar family, which includes electric, acoustic, and bass guitars, has a sound that i ...

(4 pages) 100 0 3.9 Jan/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

About pop music and how it has changed.

When you think of "pop music" certain celebrities immediately come to mind. People like Brittany Spears and groups like ... iew as American idols, people that we strive to be like or look like. But the kind of messages that pop artists today are sending out are far removed from the popular music of the 1960's. Music today ... m the popular music of the 1960's. Music today is extremely disparate than that of the sixties when pop culture turned the world, especially New York, upside down. The Velvet Underground, for starters ...

(5 pages) 93 0 3.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

The power of English language in the world.

en imposed to us, we can clearly see the American culture present in all aspects of our lives, like pop music, the Internet, the movies, food and even in the Portuguese Language Dictionaries.Like Lati ...

(2 pages) 132 1 4.2 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies

This is a essay on hip hop and the efects it has has on American's music

h more then a style of music, it has become a lifestyle. It has also had an impact on the growth of Pop music. Due to the influence on different types of music, Hip-Hop music has had a collaboration o ... how Rap Hip-Hop inspired the masses globally.Champ 2Cause of Hip-Hop there has been great effect on Pop music. The up-tempo beats of Hip-Hop gives Pop music gives the music a dance appeal. It is commo ...

(3 pages) 205 2 3.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

India and Imperialsim

ntry if that event changes the lifestyle of that country's people. For example, the introduction of pop music is not an example of an impact. It may have started a new genre of music, but that did not ...

(3 pages) 61 0 4.1 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band": A Milestone in Rock N' Roll History

but you'll never know when a zeitgeist will hit. If the Beatles were nonexistent, there would be no pop music. There would be no reason to grow out your hair. There wouldn't even be a reason to play g ... hey were four parts that made up the "Beatle." They had changed the perspective of rock n' roll and pop music forever. They changed everything. Even the word "beatlesque" has been in the dictionary fo ...

(7 pages) 77 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Hip Hop as a "Pop Explosion"

The criteria for a "pop explosion" are varied yet specific, remaining consistent throughout generational gaps. The quali ... are varied yet specific, remaining consistent throughout generational gaps. The qualities of a true pop explosion are subjective and may very depending on whom one asks. But Griel Marcus of Rolling St ... on whom one asks. But Griel Marcus of Rolling Stone has cited the enduring qualities that define a pop explosion. Marcus states that a pop explosion creates a: cultural upheaval of class and race; di ...

(4 pages) 137 1 4.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Madonna

o me on several occasions. Whether we enjoy the songs or not, there is something about music within popular culture that drives the American public wild. Sadly, for quite sometime the music industry w ... .Recently the United States has begun to experience a women's musical renaissance. Women's roles in pop music are steadily growing. There have been many outstanding female musicians and vocalists in t ...

(5 pages) 39 0 4.6 Apr/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Eminem was right: what can today's music tell us about our youth

e youth of America. Traditionally, when using music to make this analysis, the overall influence of pop music on adolescents and children would be examined. Mary Eberstadt flips this logic around and ... sic "does" to adolescents, but rather what music can "tell" about them. Is it possible that today's pop music can be used as a lens to glimpse into the lives of today's youth? Eberstadt finds her evid ...

(6 pages) 52 0 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Project Plan

ion DeveloperApplication Developer needs to develop web based tools and db interaction layers for a pop music site. The developer will receive functional and occasionally technical requirements and wi ...

(2 pages) 216 0 3.0 May/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Arab Muslims misconceptions of music

n in the Arab world about music is that it is haram (prohibited).This disturbing phenomenon is very popular especially in Gulf countries. Why? Because extremist Muslims are afraid of the current moder ... such as western clothes and modern music, that is sweeping the people. They think that listening to pop music (whether Arab or western) has a destructive effect on people which will lead to committing ...

(1 pages) 1209 0 3.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Censorship in Music : this is my essay I wrote for my independent study.

r rights and it isn't fair. As reported in the New York Times. "Wall-Mart CD standards are Changing Pop Music", Wal-Mart and other large department stores sell CD's by your favorite artists which are ...

(6 pages) 29 0 4.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

50 Cent aka Curtis Jackson

yet remarkably dramatic life before becoming in early 2003 the most-discussed figure in rap, if not pop music in general. Following an unsuccessful late-'90s run at mainstream success (foiled by an at ... utation on the streets of New York. Some of them featured 50 and his G-Unit companions rapping over popular beats, others mocked popular rappers (namely Ja Rule, who quickly became an arch-rival), and ...

(6 pages) 19 0 3.8 Mar/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

MTV Case Study

urpose of the company is to help the superstars of musicians to be different. During the year 1981, popular music emerged and it can be enjoyed through radio station or tape recorded. Although most of ... added to the new dimensions of music industry. Music Television Channel was trying to revolutionize pop music and record buying. The company introduced to people a new dimension of music performances. ...

(18 pages) 130 0 3.0 May/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Music

music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music?" (25), referring to pop music. Like the saying goes "misery loves company" and Rob, depressed and miserable, listens to ... hat better companion can a thirty-five year old loser whose girlfriend dumped him ask for?Like a pop song, Rob complains about "broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss" (25). Alwa ...

(1 pages) 1021 0 3.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Hip-Hop industry

nsider music industry as something negative, because it consists from some new cultures as hip-hop, pop music, rock and etc. Mostly it is because they have the negative influences to their children an ... d ways of living in our life. And my research question, Does the today's mainstream music industry (pop music, hip-hop, rap, R&B and etc) have desecrated the meaning of music as an art? The new cu ...

(8 pages) 130 0 5.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Music In The Family

sic In the family        There are a variety of different types of music that are popular in different times.The music that I chose to listen to is Rap and Hip-Hop because it is a ... music. During my life I have switched from each type of music a numerous times. I went from liking Pop music to Alternative. Then from Alternative to Hard Rock, and from Hard Rock to Rap which I curr ...

(3 pages) 12 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers