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Rage Against The Machine Chili Peppers
1,429 words... commitment to the black community, thus serving as a shining example of the lessons of his music. Brown's message of change by improving currently existing systems was conservative in comparison to some more radical artists. These artists, like the Last Poets, believe that change would only come around through a revolution. The Last Poets who use a combination of spoken word and music in their song "Niggers Are Scared of Revolution" exemplify this. The song addresses apathy in the black comm...
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2 Live Crew Rage Against The Machine
1,466 wordsCensorship in music has been a major problem plaguing America since the early nineteen forties. It came to a head during the nineteen sixties with the Vietnam War and the hippie movement. During the nineteen seventies and eighties heavy metal and hard rock were getting the brunt of the censorship heat. Now in the nineteen nineties the major focus of censorship is rap; primarily gangster rap. Some of the main factors of music in general that cause legal ramifications are sexual content, suggestiv...
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Rage Against The Machine Record Companies
1,355 wordsFor many years the record companies have fixed record prices to avoid competing with each other and to maximize their profits. Currently, the record companies are collaborating in order to force Napster to shut down. The record companies are claiming that Napster is breaking copyright laws. Napster is a peace of software available for free on the Internet, which allows you to download almost any song you can think of. All you need to get Napster is a computer and Internet connection, the faster ...
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Rage Against The Machine Third World
503 wordsToday there is more variety in music than ever. There is a different style for everyone no matter where youre from or how long you have been around. Music is very influential in our society. It can help pick people up out of a depression or it can persuade a person to go into a school and kill a bunch of people. You have the freedom to listen to whatever you want. I like heavy metal and hard rock. I listen to Slipknot that sings about death, destruction, and hate. I listen to P. O. D. (Payable o...
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Rage Against The Machine Culture Jamming Artists
521 wordsUnderstanding the current place of protest in music, however, requires turning away from that old vision of a throng singing choruses written by iconic troubadours, not to mention its 1980 's counterpart, the Live Aid-style celebrity marathon. Today's protest music more closely echoes the street politics rock has always inspired: the focus is scattered, the voices dissonant and the levels of involvement wildly mixed. This noisy arena finds strength in its very diversity. The most potent protests...
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Pearl Jam As A Counter Cultural Band
2,406 wordsPearl Jam as a Counter-cultural Band The early ' 90 s alt-rock rebellion, which spewed from the underground like a geyser and saved rock-n-roll from hair bands, exacted a serious toll. Band break-ups, career nosedives, sell-outs and drug abuse death are as much a legacy of that dramatic period as the music. Pearl Jam is still standing - arguably the only band from the age that still matters. "I'm totally excited about still being around, " said Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready. While the group ...
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Rage Against The Machine Chili Peppers
780 wordsThe Hip-Hop/Rock Phenomenon It seems as though you can barely read a magazine or flip on the television without hearing about one of these new hip-hop / rock groups. Media outlets such as Rolling Stone and MTV treat these bands as though miraculously created this? new? genre of music. Acts such as Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock and Sugar Ray are treated though they are creative geniuses when in reality they are only doing things that have already been done before. True some of these new bands are very ta...
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Dead Poet Society Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest
2,303 wordsRage against the Machine The world we live in is a beautiful and complex ocean of experiences and adventures. So complex is the world that often one is not able to perceive the subtle powers that orchestrate our lives into mechanic roles of existence. Society has developed a machine to shape every individual character on the face of the planet into a controlled drone capable of living an independent yet monitored life amongst other mindless drones programmed to fulfill their everyday duties. Thi...
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Saturday Night Live Rage Against The Machine
1,137 wordsRaging Against the Machine Imagine the world without music. Or imagine a world where we are told what to play, what to sing and even what we may listen to in the privacy of our own homes. That world already exists. A very politically charged band known as Rage Against Machine is one band out of thousands that has run into problems with the explicit nature of their music. To make a statement, Rage Against The Machine (RATM) had hung two upside-down American flags from their amps. Seconds before t...
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