… Hear Pop culture expert Michael Paretti once said that “people are influenced by the media in the way they dress, talk, relate, spend their money, define social problems, identify with prominent but insignificant personalities and in the…

… century icon than any other, this band that is said to have broken down barriers in all ways, is the Beatles. Their music was said to have driven that younger generation mad. Perhaps it was because they were one of the first bands to ever play…

… yet he was very insecure thorough-out his whole life which eventually leads to death. II. Rejected from Love A. Vincent Van Gogh fell in love with the land lady’s daughter who thought of Vincent as disgusting and wanted nothing to do with him. …

… Money, All the Time In Richard Brookhiser’s article “All Junk, All the Time”, Brookhiser explores elements of rock music which will never change because as he states “it is so easy to do well enough” (Brookhiser 607). He claims that popular culture…

… on popular music as expressed in ‘On Popular Music’ with reference to today’s popular music It’s impossible to take away popular music from social conditions and cultural theory. One of the earliest academic writers to consider the importance…

… on the radio there has been people trying to take away your right to enjoy it. From the Beatles song "Lucy in the sky with Diamonds," to Eminem people always seem to find something wrong with the lyrics. Songs have always been banned for short whiles…

… censorship issues. Censorship in music is very controversial today. Many artists who feel they should be able to write and sing explicit lyrics for their fans. Rap artists are consistently being sued for writing the truth, mocking other artists or…

… with the production of beats and creation of rapping over sampling, Adam Horovitz and partner Amery “AWOL” Smith of the group BS2000 have put out a unique blend of music in a genre that cannot simply be titled. Their recently released second…

… unity to the young people of America. During this time, songs stood for something important. Most of them included subliminal messages for such topics as drug experimentation, sexual exploration, war, peace and love. They also ignited a stage…

… art of expression set to music! Jazz is said to be the fundamental rhythms of human life and man’s contemporary reassessment of his traditional values. Volumes have been written on the origins of jazz based on black American life-styles. The early…