… influence on our culture, but there are many sides to him that people do not know. Many musicians have stated, "he is actually a very nice person in real life..." Does his music really influence our culture that much? Will you kill yourself just from…

… people can say that they’ve had someone to look up to. Others can say that they didn’t but they did have some sort of influence while they were growing up. It could have been a person of great stature, an unknown person, possibly a despised personality…

… something tart and ironic, authoritative and double-edged. White Americans seem to feel that happy songs are happy and sad songs are sad, and....do not understand the depths out of which such an ironic tenacity comes, but they suspect that the force…

… Almost every band today has some type of influence from the Beatles. These four men from Liverpool changed music in The United States forever. They were the biggest outside influence on Western Civilization music ever and it still remains that way.…

… to identity over the course of this semester. The essay that I believe truly focuses on this subject is "Gone Country". Our personalities are often associated with what music we listen to. The essay "Gone Country", discuss what makes up the…

… in Salzburg. He was baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. He was taught by his father, Leopold Mozart, he was a violinist in the orchestra of the Archbishop of Salzburg, he finally rose to the position of chapel master. At…

… are as diverse as the people who listen to it. Different types of music have different reputations. Heavy metal music is often labeled as "negative." Yet others find it a harmless form of music. The argument presented in this paper will show that…

… with plain chant (q.v.), comprising not only the Church music of the early Middle Ages, but also later compositions (elaborate melodies for the Ordinary of the Mass, sequences, etc.) written in a similar style down to the sixteenth century and even…

… Arthur, Texas won the heavenly birth of rock and roll's first female superstar. Janis Joplin, the first child that was born to the Joplin family in a city and not on a farm (Joplin 26). She was idolized by the public, but her life was bent on self-destru…

… peeking past the dark cloud cast on the music industry. They have certainly worked hard for all that they have achieved. Would you like to know what it is like to become an extreme musical underground success and all the hard work it takes…