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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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Recorded Using Analog Benefit Of Compact Discs Vinyl
935 wordsAt the beginning of the last decade of the Twentieth century a new media for the storage and playback of music came into the picture. The compact disc was a phenomenon of sorts, causing people to completely rebuild record collections that had taken years to build. It was a situation of, "out with the old in with the new. " There seemed to be no place for the vinyl records that had been so true to so many for so long. Compact discs do have several benefits over the vinyl records of the past, but ...
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Jimi Hendrix Experience Rising Sun
614 wordsBorn James Marshall Hendrix, on November 27, 1942, in Seattle, Washington. Often called the greatest guitarist of all time, Hendrix pioneered the explosive popularity of the electric guitar. Hendrix's unique style of combining fuzz, feedback and controlled distortion created a new musical form Hendrix's legacy grew far beyond the wide popularity he achieved during his short career. He taught himself to play guitar as an adolescent, learning from the albums of bluesman like Muddy Waters and B. B....
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Word Of Mouth Music Industry
999 wordsLike the old saying goes, "The best things in life are free. " digital media is no exception. Digital media has lately been getting attention due to the legal accusations on a certain type of digital media, MP 3 s. MP 3 stands for Mpeg (a common file compression format) audio layer 3 (which means it compresses any audio into 3 layers for about 1 / 15 th the size). The lawsuits that have been springing up lately contain two arguments. In one corner, we have the argument that an artist should be a...
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Recording Industry Association Legally Obscene
956 wordsAlbums with explicit lyrics or content started having black and white parental advisories on them in 1994 (web). Are these labels necessary? Is controversial music molding our society and causing teenagers to turn to drugs? Is censorship necessary to protect the youth of our nation. Generally, younger people are against censorship on this issue. Music is an outlet and even an anti-drug for many teens; however, parents and society feel differently. Should parents censor their children or society,...
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Kurt Cobain Gave Birth
1,437 wordsPop Music and Me: Music of the 1990 's Grunge was the popular style of our juvenile age. We got used to it when we were teenagers. Grunge shaped our culture, our world outlook and our viewpoints. The phenomenon of grunge is worth our attention to observe. We listened to Nirvana and Pearl Jam. We idolized Kurt Cobain and his songs. We loved grunge when we were teenagers and we dont shift our ground until now. Grunge is interesting by the fact that it didnt bring anything completely innovative int...
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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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Ed Sullivan Show Brian Epstein
1,055 wordsThe The Beatles The Beatles The Beatles started out in the British city, Liverpool where music was a way of life for many people. The Beatles were preceded by a John Lennon fronted band called the Quarry men. The group invited a 15 year old boy named Paul McCartney to see them perform a show. The then 16 year old John Lennon took to McCartney, that? s when a unique and amazing song writing partnership began. The Quarry Men ended up falling apart at the seams. John Lennon and Paul McCartney kept ...
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Radio And Television Founding Fathers
970 wordsCensorship in music is a topic that has brought about much controversy in the past two decades. There have been many different arguments on the topic, however the question still remains as if it should be censored or it should not be censored. Before one can form an opinion on this, one must hear both sides of the argument. Some believe that music should be censored so all audiences can hear it without it containing any controversial lyrics. Others believe it should not be censored and musical a...
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Marshall Mathers Lp Rolling Stone Magazine
1,930 wordsHe Didn? t Just Say What I Think He Did. Did He? ? I? m like a head trip to listen to cuz Im only giving you things you joke about with your friends inside your living room. The only difference is I got the BALLS to say it in front of yawl, and I don? t got to be false or sugarcoated at all. I just get on the mic and spit it. Whether you like to admit it, I just censored it better than 90 % of you rappers out here. Then you wonder how can kids eat these albums, like volumes. Its funny cuz at tha...
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Santa Fe Country Music
723 wordsTroyalGarth Brooks Garth Brooks Total Garth Brooks was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma of February 7, 1962. He was raised in Yukon about one hundred miles away from Tulsa. Ray, his father, worked as a draughtsman for an oil company while his mother Colleen was a country singer in the 1950 s and appeared on radio and television show, as well as recording various recordings for Capital Records. Country music played a role in the Brooks household, but not a dominant one. But, by the time Garth was born, hi...
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Rock And Roll Rhythm And Blues
2,155 wordsGreat Rock Musicians: Their Achievements And Effect Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements And Effect On Music Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements and Effect on Rock and Roll The blues are undeniably the roots of early rock and roll. Rock today has mutated so much that the basic blues patterns have been all but lost. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the birth of, and evolution of rock and roll by focusing on three of the arguably greatest rock musicians of the sixties and sevent...
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Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar
1,467 wordsJames Marshal Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington, on November 27, 1942; a black American of African, European, Cherokee Indian and Mexican descent. An unsettled home environment made Jimi spend much of his early years staying with his grandmother, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, in Canada. His mother died when Jimi was 15 about the same time as Jimi began to take a serious interest in music and playing the guitar. When he was 12 he got his first electric guitar the instrument which shaped t...
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Father Sex Life
603 wordsLL Cool J, born Todd James Smith, has made many great accomplishments in his life due to his upbringing. This autobiography explains about his choices, the good, the bad, the wrong and the right. Through all of his experiences he is able to say, ? I Make My Own Rules. ? Experiences that would change Todd? s life began before he was born. One night, after a party his parents had been attending, his mother and father got into an argument in their car driving on a highway in New York City. Todd? s ...
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Ice Cube Los Angeles
377 wordsO Shea Jackson, also know as Ice Cube was born in 1969. He was growing up in South Central Los Angeles. Ice Cube s interest for Rap started showing in high school. Ice Cube went away to Phoenix Arizona to study architecture. When He returned he began his raping career. In return to Los Angeles in 1987 He released a few 12 inches with My Posse. He worked with his crew C. I. A, World Class Wrecking Crew and then the contentious N. W. A. This crew know as N. W. A was The first group to bring gangst...
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Ice Cube Los Angeles
395 wordsO? Shea Jackson, also know as Ice Cube was born in 1969. He was growing up in South Central Los Angeles. Ice Cube? s interest for Rap started showing in high school. Ice Cube went away to Phoenix Arizona to study architecture. When He returned he began his raping career. In return to Los Angeles in 1987 He released a few 12 inches with? My Posse? . He worked with his crew C. I. A, World Class Wrecking Crew and then the contentious N. W. A. This crew know as N. W. A was The first group to bring g...
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Janet Jackson Famous Black Started
473 wordsThis essay is to help you learn a little bit more about the one and only Janet jackson I will device the program in 3 parts 1 - Her career 2 - her lifestyle 3 - How she produces her songs and videos She started off being a sister... of 5 big brothers! Who once formed the jackson 5. A famous black pop group When she was still a very young lady. She wanted to sing like her brothers... but her father who was the directer of the jackson 5 thought hat girls didn, t belong in the world of singing. Jus...
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Janet Jackson Famous Black Started
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Jimi Hendrix Guitar Style Rock
369 wordsHad rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix not died of complications from a drug overdose on Sept. 18, 1970, at the age of 27 theres no doubt he would have continued to contribute great works of art not only in the pop world but also in the jazz realm. At the time of his death, he was preparing to collaborate with Miles Davis, who was fascinated with his searing music. Hendrix was born in Seattle on Nov. 27, 1942. A fan of Muddy Waters, Elmore James, B. B. King and Chuck Berry, Hendrix developed a guitar s...
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One Of The Greatest Ringo Starr
815 wordsIt is not often that a band comes along and changes the face of music forever. The Beatles managed to do this and many other accomplishments that make them one of the greatest bands of all time. This essay will try to explain what made this band so popular and what led to their sad downfall and eventual breakup. The four members of the group, all born in Liverpool, were Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Each came from a working-class background, and all had had exper...
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