Well, I need to write my essay. FUCK. I can't believe I haven't started yet and it's due tomorrow hahahahahaahhahahahahahaha *crazy laughter
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today's was actually decent - possibly even the best one? We had a guest lecturer who discussed the influence of music and dance combined, and we looked at a TON of video clips.
In other news, did you want me to send you my essay? I don't know if it could give you ideas or not, but hey - anything is better than nothing, right?
Re: I'll admit that parts of it ARE lame...I was just trying to come up with something!amme5832November 14 2005, 20:31:54 UTC
T.W. Adorno takes a stricter approach to the music industry, and the influence of it on society, in his essay “Popular Music”, suggesting that popular music had a negative effect on both society and individuals. Not only does Adorno view popular music as a “low” art form, he also claims it will separate the population, based on lyrics and the formation of songs (Adorno 1976: 27-31). According to him, the effect of popular music is akin to being asleep: “popular music is a training course in a passivity that will probably spread to his thought and social conduct” (Adorno 1976: 30). However, popular music does not necessarily have this effect at all. In fact, it can be said that popular songs were used during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement to influence the populace to make a stand and fight for their equal rights, just as songs like Aretha Franklin’s “RESPECT” helped to remind women that they deserve respect and aren’t “partial-people”. Songs can be used as a way to move people. In fact, Bob Marley’s reggae songs, also popular
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Re: I'll admit that parts of it ARE lame...I was just trying to come up with something!amme5832November 14 2005, 20:32:06 UTC
It is through music that social differences can be crossed, and people can unite. Within the earlier history of twentieth century music making in America there is a point where segregation boundaries are crossed, and white and African American artists would integrate bands and sing together. Though the consumers may not have realized this, music was still uniting singers and providing some of the first examples of integration in the United States
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