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    How has performing arts affected your lives‚ and why is it important to you? Performing arts comprises a wide range of activities that involves the use of one’s potential skills‚ body and creativity to be able to produce a piece of art work that defines them individually. Personally‚ performing arts has affected me greatly since I first began playing the piano as my very first instrument. Firstly‚ one of the main affects that has impacted me and made me who I am today are life values. For example:

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    In today’s popular culture it is expected of people to have the newest and most popular items‚ and this reflects back on one’s social status. The message that is being pushed at people is that we need more stuff and the stuff we already have isn’t good enough. People watch reality television shows such as Keeping up with the Kardashians and watch people who not only have the ability to own multiple cars and have walk in closets filled with the newest fashions but normalize this behavior and make

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    Technology Technology has made a great impact on many individuals such as me and the society as a whole. The positive ways that it affects society are many such as that it has brought luxury to life‚ increases access to knowledge‚ provides a communication platform and has generally made life easier. On the other hand‚ it has made people lazy‚ overexposure can lead to internet addiction and it has made man overly dependent on it. These impacts have much changed the lives of individuals as well

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    How did rock and roll music change popular culture in the post-war years? Since its rise to popularity in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s‚ rock and roll music has played an enormous role in influencing several different genres of music in this modern day and age. The makings of a new‚ fresh‚ and exciting kind of music came to be as a result of the strong combination of two very important things: technology and popular culture. With the unorthodox juxtaposition of different

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    1.What is popular music? Popular music is any music since industrialization in the mid 1800s that is in line with the tastes and preferences of the middle class. 2.What theme does pop music typically use in the lyrics? Describe one pop song that uses this theme. Why is this theme such a popular one? Pop music typically uses love as the theme in the lyrics. For example‚ “Baby” by Justin Bieber uses the theme love. This theme is a popular one because the theme love uses emotion and is relatable

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    Research Project World Music in the Global Village 345-101-MQ sec. 00029 22/04/13 The musical ethnography being studied is the origins of Rock and Roll. Rock and Roll evolved from blues in America and started in the 1920’s but only became popular in the 1950’s. Rock mainly uses a fast paste beat of drums‚ electric guitar‚ bass guitar and acoustic guitar. Some famous Rock musicians such as Elvis Presley were in the early stages of when Rock was popular. He in fact covered blues

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    lives. Music is an incredible form of expression that requires tireless dedication and effort by musicians to master their craft so that they can efficiently convey said message to their audience. Dating back to African American spirituals (far back towards the 17th century)‚ music has been a fundamental and progressive influence on our American culture and society. Due to this fact it is important to effectively understand and commit to knowledge‚ music‚ and it’s influence on the American people

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    Fandom in Popular Culture

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    River Steinberg Fandom in Popular Culture Everyone is a fan of something. Whether it’s a sports team‚ celebrity‚ or television show there is at least one thing that a person enjoys to partake in‚ talk about‚ etc. Yet when does becoming too much of a fan – or a fanatic – become a problem? This question raises concern because recently many different fan bases or fandoms of certain movies‚ books‚ etc. have been criticized over the last decades due to their extreme dedication and obsession. Some people

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    How has mass media a created a relationship among popular culture‚ mass media and different forms of dissemination? Mass media is any form of communication used to reach a large group of people. There are different types of media; examples of media are magazines‚ movies‚ television‚ books‚ recording devices‚ radio and the internet. As time goes on‚ new and improved technology is developed in the mass media industry for communicating and entertainment purposes. As mass media continues to grow and

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    Popular Music Under Siege

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    POPULAR MUSIC UNDER SIEGE Beginning in the 1980s‚ religious fundamentalists and some parents’ groups have waged a persistent campaign to limit the variety of cultural messages available to American youth by attacking the content of some of the music industry’s creative products. These attacks have taken numerous forms‚ including a call by the Parents’ Music Resource Center (PMRC) for the labeling of recordings whose themes or imagery relate to sexuality‚ violence‚ drug or alcohol use‚ suicide

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