Music Essay Examples Page 27

Abdullah Ibrahim effectively communicates the central thesis of “Amandla” when he offers “The thing that saved us was the music; so the music wasn’t actually what we call liberation music, it was part of liberating ourselves. ” Essentially, Amandla uses first hand accounts of various South African citizens to explain the effectiveness and necessity of…

For the professional play of my choice, I saw the musical, “Violet,” presented in Ford’s Theater by director Jeff Calhoun and an incredible team of stage artists and actors. I did not particularly enjoy the plotline of the play, but the acting was great. Since watching “Violet,” I have been reading my introduction to acting…

For this assignment, I decided to visit the Norton Simon Museum located in Pasadena, California, located only a few miles away from the legendary Rose Bowl stadium. The Norton Simon Museum has plenty of pre-renaissance paintings and figures. One figure/statue that stood out for me was titled “Three Angel Musicians. ” The artist is not…

“Oklahoma! ” is a musical based on Lynn Riggs’ play “Green Grow the Lilacs,” and is directed by Trevor Nunn. The musical is set in Oklahoma just outside of the town Clairmoore in 1906. It stars Joesfina Gabrielle as Laurey, Maureen Lipman as Aunt Eller, and Shuler Hensley as Jud Fry. This production was filmed…

“We are all mad here,” stated the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland. He couldn’t have been more correct, everyone and everything is a little messed up. Even Alice, surrounded in a make believe world of her own, knew this to be true. However, in the world Norman Rockwell chose to create, people are in…

The essay I read suggested that people of low intelligence/class i. e. teenagers use “junk” music to try and drown out their supposedly harsh reality. The author also suggests that the more intelligent people in the world do not listen to loud music because the decibel level at which you listen to music somehow indicates…

Hi, I am Eleanor Fagan Gough, or most of you know me as Lady Day or Billie Holiday. I am known, as one of America”s most memorable and influential singers of all time. I was born in Baltimore, in a run down apartment, in 1915. My mother had a very unsteady, low paying job, and…

I would hate to even suggest that we might soon exist in a world without Eminem. His songs inspire us, as well as being very morally sound, Marshal Mather’s creative and innovative fashions and tunes gives us the much-needed variety that keeps us interested about the next self titled CD he will put out. Eminem…

For many centuries, young men have been telling their sweethearts about ephemeral youth and passion which, like a candle, burns brightly but dies out slowly but surely. Edmund Waller”s persona in the poem Song is such a young man. He sends a rose to his beloved to Tell her that [she] wastes her time and…

“Hip hop is now the most important musical idiom: what jazz was from the 1920’s to the 40’s, or rock ‘n’ roll was from the 50’s to the 70’s, hip hop has been from the 80’s on. ” Straus, April 2000 As the quote states, hip hop and its associate genres rap, urban, R&B is…