The Music of My Life
MUSIC THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE
JOSHUA WHEATON
HUM 300
1/21/12
Music: The lite of my life
Have you ever been walking down the street, not a particular street, on some idol Tuesday after noon, and a song comes on your IPod and you just want to break into a running dance? Scaring everyone around you, who think you are an escaped patient from a mental hospital? Well welcome to my life every day. Music plays such a big role in my life that I don’t know what I would do if one day I was to go deaf and not be able to hear music ever again. With that being said you need to know why I feel this way about music to know what it really means to me. How am I going to get across to you, what music means to me without you being inside my head? Well, let me start with the playlist of my life, so sit back, relax, hit play, and feel free to sing along.
January 11th 1985, a child is born in a small hospital in random Kentucky town a song playing in the back-round. You see I was stuck inside my mom and I just had to cut loose. Kenny Logins footloose was playing in the other room the day I was born and my mom said I could not wait to get out and let the world see my shiny face. After that the only time I remember music as a young child was when my mom was singing to me. My mom is a fantastic singer she used to sing me to bed every night, and the song I always made her sing was from Dumbo and the song was Baby Mine by Betty Noyes. This song pretty much sums up my very young years I was kind of a moms boy with a tough exterior.
The year was 1990 the world was in a tussle, 50,000 were killed in an earthquake in Iran, The USA started Operation Desert Shield, Saddam orders Kuwait to be invaded, Saturn released its first run of car’s, The Simpsons aired on Fox for the first time, and I was jamming out on my Walkman that my grandma bought me for my birthday. (If you are under 20 you have no clue what that is). The tape in my deck was a mix made by my uncle some of the titles included
JOSHUA WHEATON
HUM 300
1/21/12
Music: The lite of my life
Have you ever been walking down the street, not a particular street, on some idol Tuesday after noon, and a song comes on your IPod and you just want to break into a running dance? Scaring everyone around you, who think you are an escaped patient from a mental hospital? Well welcome to my life every day. Music plays such a big role in my life that I don’t know what I would do if one day I was to go deaf and not be able to hear music ever again. With that being said you need to know why I feel this way about music to know what it really means to me. How am I going to get across to you, what music means to me without you being inside my head? Well, let me start with the playlist of my life, so sit back, relax, hit play, and feel free to sing along.
January 11th 1985, a child is born in a small hospital in random Kentucky town a song playing in the back-round. You see I was stuck inside my mom and I just had to cut loose. Kenny Logins footloose was playing in the other room the day I was born and my mom said I could not wait to get out and let the world see my shiny face. After that the only time I remember music as a young child was when my mom was singing to me. My mom is a fantastic singer she used to sing me to bed every night, and the song I always made her sing was from Dumbo and the song was Baby Mine by Betty Noyes. This song pretty much sums up my very young years I was kind of a moms boy with a tough exterior.
The year was 1990 the world was in a tussle, 50,000 were killed in an earthquake in Iran, The USA started Operation Desert Shield, Saddam orders Kuwait to be invaded, Saturn released its first run of car’s, The Simpsons aired on Fox for the first time, and I was jamming out on my Walkman that my grandma bought me for my birthday. (If you are under 20 you have no clue what that is). The tape in my deck was a mix made by my uncle some of the titles included
References: Janaro,R.,&Altshuler,T. (2012). The art of being human: The humanities as a technique for living. 3rd ed.) New York, NY: Pearson.