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Rock Music Essays and Term Papers
MetallicaA successful twenty years in the music industry is an amazing accomplishment. Bands come and go all the time. They shine brightly for a while, but eventually disappear. So how has the metal band, Metallica, stayed in the running? Metallica has been able to stay in the mainstream because of its ...
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Jimi Hendrix, the greatest guitarist in rock history, revolutionized
the sound of rock. In 1967, the Experience rocked the nation
with their first album, Are You Experienced?. Hendrix's life was cut short
by the tragedy of drugs in 1970, when he was only twenty seven years old.
In these three years the sound ...
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The Grateful DeadI have chosen to do my report on . They were a rock and
roll band from the sixties that stayed popular and still influenced rock and
roll until 1995 when the lead singer, Jerry Garcia, died and the band dissolved.
The Dead remained popular for so long because of the style of their live
concerts ...
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Elvis PresleyElvis Presley enjoyed a long reign as the King of Rock N' Roll. He succeeded in not only stealing the hearts of every teenage girl in America, but also in redefining pop culture. Not only did Elvis redefine the world of pop culture but he helped to create the genre of Rock-n-Roll. According to ...
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George HarrisonGeorge Harrison
Harold and Louise French gave birth to George Harrison on February 25, 1943 in Liverpool, England. George Harrison was the youngest of four children. While George Harrison had a solo career, he is best remembered as the lead guitarist and sometimes lead vocals with The ...
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ColdplayInformative Speech Outline
Specific purpose: I will inform my audience about British rock band Coldplay.
Central idea: The history of British rock band Coldplay, its career and music style.
Introduction
I. Yellow. Clocks. Fix you. Viva La Vida. Paradise. These are the song titles from ...
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The Emergence Of Heavy MetalJimi Hendrix was a guitar virtuoso that both frightened and motivated. After his coming out at the 1967 Monterey Pop festival, he was labeled, deservedly, a guitar genesis. His early performances, both live, and recorded material, produced a mile wide shadow that was impossible to escape. His ...
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Bob Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman on May 24th, 1941, has perhaps been one of the most influential singer songwriters of all time. Young Dylan lived the first five or six years of his life in Duluth, Minnesota, until his father became ill with polio and lost his job. The family then moved to Hibbing, ...
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British InvasionWhen one thinks of rock and roll there is a whole list of adjectives to describe a band. The groups can go from laid back to an in your face, ultra loud show of shows. There are many differences in rock bands and none is greater than the deviation between Oasis and Dave Matthews Band. From ...
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Bob Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman on May 24th, 1941, has perhaps been one of the most influential singer songwriters of all time. Young Dylan lived the first five or six years of his life in Duluth, Minnesota, until his father became ill with polio and lost his job. The family then moved to Hibbing, ...
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Metallica�If you came here to see spandex and big hair, this ain�t your band�, �s �war cry� throughout the early eighties. While the rest of the hard rock bands wanted to get rich and a lot of women, , as in the words of former lead guitarist Dave Mustaine, �Our hole existence pretty much was guitar, ...
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Elvis PresleyJailhouse Rock: The Story of Elvis Aaron Presley
On January 8, 1935 at 4:35 a.m., a little boy by the name of Elvis Aaron Presley was born to parents Vernon and Gladys Love Presley in a two-room house located in Tupelo, Mississippi. Little did anyone know that this little boy would forever ...
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Jim Morrison: The Lizard KingJim Morrison said once, �A Doors concert is a public meeting called by us for a special dramatic discussion. When we perform, we�re participating in the creation of a world and we celebrate that with the crowd.�(Hopkins, XI). As in the previous the Doors were a great band who performed and ...
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The Psychology of SingingMusic has been around for thousands of years. There are historical traces left of the music of ancient cultures from the Hebrews, the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Mesopotamians, and more. Since this is so, it is safe to say that they must have all had a conscious or unconscious knowing of the ...
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Click Vs. Brick: An Exploration Of Mp3 File Sharing And Mp3An exploration of mp3 file sharing and online music piracy, and its ethical implications regarding consumers, musicians, and record companies
�In traditional ethical studies, the classic problem is the starving man � can a starving man ethically steal a loaf of bread if he has no money. The ...
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Click Vs Brick: An Exploration Of Mp3 File Sharing And OnlinAn exploration of mp3 file sharing and online music piracy, and its ethical implications regarding consumers, musicians, and record companies
�In traditional ethical studies, the classic problem is the starving man � can a starving man ethically steal a loaf of bread if he has no money. The ...
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The History Of Electronic Musical InstrumentsElectronic instruments and digital audio have changed the world�s musical paradigm forever. The advent of consumer electronics in the 1920�s gave musicians and composers alike, the ability to both create new sounds and the devices to manipulate them by electrical means.
The 20th century has seen ...
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Behind The Doors�The program for this evening is not new. You�ve seen it thru and thru. Your birth, your life, and death. You might recall all of the rest. (Did you have a good life when you died?) Enough to base a movie on� (The Doors)? Jim Morrison�s life was plenty to base a movie on, along with multiple ...
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Kurt CobainKurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20,1967 in the town of Aberdeen,
Washington. Aberdeen is on the west coast and is about 108 miles southwest of
Seattle. Aberdeen is a dreary place with about seven feet of rain a year. Kurt
was born to Mrs. Wendy Cobain and to Mr. Donald Cobain. Wendy ...
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Women in Pop CultureKevaughn Samuels
WMS 100-01
Pop Culture Paper
10/16/12
Each era within society has distinctively displayed its pop culture through its inhabitants. Pop culture generally stems from its celebrity icons, individuals like Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur and the list goes on. Also ...
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