Music Essays and Term Papers

be remembered long after we are gone, and it is bands like Oasis that led the revolution which took place recently. Oasis, headed by brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher was the first band after The Beatles to lash out against what had become the normal…

scene was suffering from a repetetive pattern of big hair, flashy clothes, long guitar solos, and lyrics that weren’t relating to the listeners. The music industry was begging for something new. This is the beat up state that rock was left in during…

greatly appreciated. Music lets you escape reality or get you in touch with reality. Most people can relate to a lot of songs, the reason for this is because the artists who write the songs are in some way or another, just like you and me. In the…

a unique style of elaborte harmony and melodic structure. Despite a career setback due more in part to a perceived disco lifestyle and flavor percipitated by the media than to actual mucical direction, the group persevers, reminding listeners that…

significantly with the advancements of such companies like Napster and the technology to “burn” or copy cd’s. Bands such as Metallica and rap singer Dr. Dre have been some of the leaders in the fight to eliminate the piracy of copyrighted music.…

the music that you wanted and it was free? Well, in the age of the internet this situation is possible with mp3’s. Mp3’s are compressed digital audio files which has near cd quality sound. It was developed by a German engineering form called Fraunhofer…

would all sit around my place freestyling while someone beat boxed. I even used to tell all the girls that I was a poet. They seemed to find it a little more touching than a rapper" (Prince Paul, The Source 16) The lyrics of rappers are very similar…

Combs and bodyguard Anthony “Wolf” Jones on all charges brought against them, after a 1999 shooting in a nightclub in Midtown Manhattan that injured three people. The verdicts finally ended a seven-week trial that produced the spectacle of…

a form of art. It has received a great deal of negative publicity since becoming mainstream in the early to mid 1980’s. It is believed, by many, that the lyrical content of this type of music deals with only guns, alcohol, sex, violence, and crime.…

Circus began as a popular New York nightclub, complete with pulsating lights, fragmented pieces of movies, colored patterns and slides sweeping the mirrored walls, strip lighting writhing on the floor, flashing on and off like a demented snake…