In the article‚ “Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music”‚ Simon Frith tries to show the aesthetic value of poplar music in the sociological field‚ while most of the academic musicologists think popular music‚ submitted to social forces‚ is aesthetically worthless. There are two different sociological approaches to judge the value of music. First is technique and technology‚ as Frith states‚ “people produce and consume the music they are capable of producing and consuming.” (Firth 498) But he
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what our world has done for so many years. People with disabilities have been treated the most unfavorable of us all. This goes back almost all the way back in history. I am going to be focusing on the 1800s/ early 1900s‚ the 1950s to the 1960s‚ and what life is like them for today. In the late 1800s and early 1900s‚ if you were a disabled kid‚ society would want you hidden. They would and not want to deal with you. Even when you were born or needed help‚ the nurses would not give you very good treatment
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genre of Indonesian popular music that is partly derived from Arabic‚ Indian‚ and Malay folk music. It developed in the 1970s among working class Muslim youth‚ but especially since the late 1990s has reached a broader following in Indonesia. A dangdut band usually consists of a lead singer backed by four to eight musicians. The term has been expanded from the desert-style music‚ to embrace other musical styles. Modern dangdut incorporates influences from Latin‚ house music‚ hip-hop‚ R&B‚ reggae
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amount of money as men for doing the same job. Women are hired these days to do other jobs than to be secretaries and nurses. The families of 1950s are considered as ideal and are also known as nuclear families. It consists of a working husband‚ a housewife and their children mostly two in which the elder one is boy and the younger one is girl. The families of 1950s and mine have a lot of differences because of the change of culture in the society. They include the structure‚ role‚ values of education
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overt public presentation of one’s gender identity. In the book‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ the strict gender roles defined the way people were expected to act and how they were viewed. Compared to what we see today those expectations have changed since the 50’s‚ for the better. During the 1950’s men and women were viewed contrastively different‚ as males had the upperhand in society‚ and they were both expected to do different things. The men were the breadwinners‚ for example Holden’s father‚ who
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Political Climate of 1950’s vs. Today The novelist Lauren Groff once wrote‚ “In America‚ possibly because of whatever the American dream is‚ this happens over and over again. These eras repeat” (“Lauren Groff Quotes”). Two such eras are the 1950’s and the 2010’s. The 50’s‚ remembered with the military-man Eisenhower; the 2010’s‚ with the watershed Obama‚ may seem stark in their physical attributes; however‚ at their heart‚ these two eras may have more in common than first realized. The political
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I.Invasion of American Popular Music After World War I‚ American popular music -- blues‚ jazz‚ and Tin Pan Alley songs -- swept Britain‚ much as British music invaded the United States in the 1960s. American songs such as "Chicago" and "Manhattan" were consistently among the most popular tunes in Britain in the 1920s. As a result of the invasion of American popular music‚ Britain was influenced by such culture. The Beatles and other British rock groups helped create in the 1960s a milieu that
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unemployment rate is currently at 8.9%‚ down from 9.4% in December 2010. However‚ as the labor market improves‚ employers are still skeptical about hiring permanent employees and are increasingly turning to temporary agencies to fill job vacancies to avoid costly benefits‚ training‚ certain taxes and payroll costs that accompany permanent employment. Past recessions and recoveries have usually indicated that the market is improving when temporary hiring increases‚ stabilizes and finally‚ permanent hiring
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has an impact on the development of popular music. I will describe the development and impact of the Internet of popular music. Following Shapiro and Varian (1999) the development of music technology can be characterized by several aspects such as consumption‚ production and distribution. Technology influences the demand for music to be extended including costs and similar variations. The role of demand is exemplified by Klym’s (2005) invention by consuming music over network devises. According to
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Dystopian Literature and Teens Today Does one’s self feel as if they are a character inside a book? Do they feel as if they are trapped inside a horrible school? This is just one of the many reasons why Dystopian literature is very popular among teenagers today. Other reasons include that teenagers may feel as if they are different from others. Also‚ their emotions can affect why the like dystopian books so much? Why is dystopian literature so popular among teens today? In the novel Anthem by Ayn
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