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For example, music revealed disillusionment with the American Dream and expressed criticism of American foreign and domestic policy. In particular, the music industry reflected the anti-war sentiments during the late 1960s and early 1970s when the United States was still involved in Vietnam.
Music also reflected shifting social and cultural values. For example, songs in the 1950s were innocent whereas those from the 1970s were darker in tone and often contained references to sex and drugs. The tone of American music shifted toward even more frank discussion of political and social issues during the 1980s when punk delivered frank messages. The music industry in America also introduced sounds from across the sea: from primarily the United Kingdom but also Japan, Germany, India and all over the world. The introduction of multicultural beats into American music reflected the diverse fabric of our society. World beats are often synthesized with electro, hiphop or pop music. Music like hip-hop that grew out of and therefore reflects urban African-American culture. Although the music industry and especially hip-hop are frequently criticized for promoting misogynist and materialistic values, those values were already present in American society. The music did not and does not create negative sentiments. Marketing music has changed with emerging technologies. File sharing has forced the music industry to stay apace with the ways young people and all listeners want to acquire new music. Instead of fighting technology, the music industry is finally starting to reflect the passion for new technology by offering downloadable for-profit albums online. Both in the music itself and in the marketing of music, the recording industry reflects American culture.
In other words each music performance is different and the impulsiveness of each performance confirms the concept of indeterminate music. 6) Describe an Indonesian Gamelan. (Textbook p. 282-283) It said that Debussy, when he heard the Indonesian ensemble called gamelan was surprisingly delighted at its diverse and delicate timbers, and decided to use the elements in the impressionistic sound which he was working at developing. The gamelan, a distinctive Indonesian orchestra consisting
Latin American Music Music Industry The music industry is undergoing a global technological revolution which has been induced by the introduction of Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing services, and the proliferation of recordable CD equipment which his now within the financial reach of the average consumer. Any one of these three influences alone could have been absorbed by the recording industry. The presence of a P2P service which was limited only
'All you need is love,' sang The Beatles. But they sang against a backdrop of militant demonstrations, the hazing of soldiers, environmental 'monkey-wrenching,' self-destructive drug trips, and a knifing death at the Altamont Rock Festival in 1969. Apart from the Weatherman faction of Students for a Democratic Society, which took Charles Manson as its hero, most people who identified with the 1960s counterculture deplored violence as much as they
Popular culture has a pervasive impact upon children's lives today, particularly during the adolescent stage. According to the University of Tampere's Department of Translation Studies, pop culture is defined as "the differing forms and expressions which are characteristic of a particular society (whether local, regional, national, racial, or ethnic, to mention only a few of the different definitions of 'society' itself)." It is a recent modern phenomenon that encompasses all aspects
In "The Times They Are a-Changin'," released in February 1964, he encapsulated the spirit of the times, and issued a timely warning to the older generation to accept the changing times or be drowned in a youth-inspired social revolution. (McWilliams, 32) While Dylan was introducing protest folk music in the mainstream popular music in the early 1960s, bands such as "The Beatles" had captured the imagination of the Western youth
This, along with the older Psalter by Strenhold and Hopkins, was the main influence of the Bay Psalm Book printed during 1640 in Massachusetts. This can be compared with the first musical influences on and compositions by Li Jinhui. The traditional forms were explored thoroughly before new ideas in music were explored. Culturally, the new Americans at the time were deeply religious, following the Puritan tradition on which they based