singer who completely popularized the genre at the time. He was also considered a cultural hero by many through his social activist work and dedication to the antiwar and civil rights struggles across America, inspiring a number of musicians such as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. He was a very successful artist through many decades, including his time with the Weavers in the late 40s, all the way through the 50s, and then was blacklisted by the government for being members of a communist party…
The christmas carol is a famous christmas book made by Charles Dickens in 1843. The book is about an old man named ebenezer scrooge who hates christmas and is sent into the past, present, and future by three spirits to convince him to stop. There are tons of different versions of this story, I´m going to compare the ending of three of them, the original, the animated movie version, and the marvel comic. First lets compare how all three of them are similar. The ending of all three versions is…
The Beatles—Misunderstood During the interactive periods of the Beatles and their fans, the relationship had progressed, in the words of Devin McKinney, “the honeymoon was over. The marriage had begun” (71). With the Beatlemania period equivalent to the honeymoon stage and the after period the marriage. When performing for their fans, they were once showered with screams of adoring, crazed fans who would be gratified enough to just be in the audience. For the duration of these periods, the…
|| Narrator's Perspective || "Thank you Brisbane (idk)!" Aisha yelled loudly to the crowd after the band took their bow. The crowd cheered in return as they ran backstage to change their clothes. "That was a good show," Kyle (it kept correcting to Luke???) said with a lopsided smile as he put his bass on a rack. "Yeah!" Allison grinned. (The Mike Wazowski's) 1 Minute 'Til Midnight was the name of their band. It consisted of Aisha, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist, Robyn, the lead…
Bob Mortimer Family and Biography With his hilarious jokes and whimsical act, he cracked up everyone he ever came across. He is none other than the greatest comedian of all time Robert Renwick Mortimer, popularly known by his stage name Bob Mortimer. He is widely known for his stand-up comedy in his native land England and as well as internationally. The 57 year old comedian started his first comedy programme along with his long time business partner, comedian Vic Reeves in 1986. Mortimer’s…
Before, this assignment I really only knew what rap music and what it brought to the world. For example, Pete Seeger was an American folk singer and listening to a couple of his songs they brought laughing,joy, dancing, loving, embracing, and peace. During a concert he mention that “ you can make a combination between the best and the old and new” and starts to play You gotta walk that lonesome valley which brought joy. As I can observe with a couple of concerts that I saw on Youtube, they…
and was only paid twenty-five dollars a week. Baez met Bob Gibson who she performed with at the Newport Folk Concert in 1959. The two of them sang a duet of “Virgin Mary Had One Son”. Soon after that performance, Joan signed with Vanguard, and recorded her first self-titled album, Joan Baez. That album was completed within four days, and had the single “El Preso Numero Nueve”. In the 60’s Baez also began recording and performing with Bob Dylan, and ended up having a romantic relationship…
“We are the music makers, and the dreamer of dreams”- Gene Wilder . This quote describes who I am today and why i’m so passionate about music. In my life I have experienced great times, and also experienced hard times, but music has brought me closer to myself and I want to share my small journey of music that I have experience in my life. In my earlier years I was a big fan of Michael Jackson. The renown pop artist was first introduced to me by a magazine I had looked at in a corner store…
This is a comparison of the song “Miss Jackson” originally done by the artist Outcast and then later remade by the cover band The Vines. Both versions, are themed about a man’s conflict with a girl and her mother. The original version is rap while the cover version released by the vines is rock. Outcast’s message is that he wants to right his wrongs and that he deserves to be involved his child’s life. The Vine’s version has a more simple meaning of simply wanting forgiveness and girl back.…
Norman Jewison’s story of Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter gives us his take on the corrupt society during the time of The Black Civil Rights Movement. The overarching theme of this film is imprisonment, this can be broken down into the two main ideas willpower and internal conflict. Throughout the film the many pieces of dialogue, camera shots, and repeated shots or sequences are used to reinforce the overarching theme, imprisonment. These are shown in the “Hole Scene” where Rubin Carter is locked…