Theme: The music industry. Topic: The negative effect of dancehall music on the younger generation. Thesis: Although dancehall music has positive effects on the younger generation its negative effects outweighs the positive effects and is manifested mainly through the generally explicit‚ sexual and violent content of the music. This in turn negatively impact the younger generation leading them to embrace immoral sexual behaviours‚ encouraging violent behaviours and negatively influencing other
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"BLACK MUSIC" African-American music has had such an impact on our society today. African-American music became popular in the 19th century after the civil war as musicians of color were hired to play in saloons and brothels. A couple of forms of popular music are spirituals‚ gospel‚ blues‚ jazz and ragtime. Spiritual and gospel music reflected the poverty and oppression of slaves. As Jazz entered the popular culture it provoked a great deal of criticism. An artist know as‚ Louis Armstrong
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Music has made a very great impact in my life. For as long as I can remember‚ I’ve always been interested in the ways of music and how it works. It has affected me in my childhood‚ teenhood‚ and will affect my life future. In my early years‚ 2-10 years‚ I mainly listened to a lot of pop music‚ for example: The Black Eyed Peas‚ Michael Jackson‚ Maroon 5‚ etc. I would imagine myself being the singer‚ the guitarist‚ or the drummer. By the time I was 10 years of age‚ I began to form an interest in instruments
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Television has a bad influence on teenagers. Do you agree? Television has become an integral part of homes in the modern world that it is hard to imagine life without television. It provides entertainment to people of all ages especially children. Not only children but teenagers also love to watch television and prefer to stay ‘glued’ to the TV screen all day‚ rather than socializing or doing some outdoor physical activities. It has been known that teenagers watch a lot of television. A recent research
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“The earth has music for those who listen.”- William Shakespeare. For a songwriter their diction is essential in order for readers/listeners to understand their piece of work. The author’s tone The use of literary elements in the song ‘La la la” by Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith‚ helps emphasize the strong message being passed by the author about how a young boy is facing a hard life and being verbally abused. In the song‚ Naughty Boy uses a hyperbole to convey the idea that someone is feeding lies
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One of my influence’s in music is Kanye West. In my early teens‚ few of my family members would always listen to a lot of Jay-Z and Roc-A-Fella Records. I always like how the music sounded blasting through the speakers. I thought was amazing that a person can sample another song and flip it to make it another song. When I became 12 years old I always wanted to make my own beats with samples. I started reading and watching videos on how to make instrumentals. I also would find myself looking for
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called ziggurat They kept themselves united under Hammurabi’s code You obey Hammurabi’s code Praise Hammurabi’s code Break Hammurabi’s code And you’ll be saying oh no! Libraries were found (x4) Awww Yeah! This rap was a project for World History and we had to come up with a rap that went over the culture of Mesopotamia‚ it is to the tune of Crank Dat Mesopotamia (from the Greek‚ meaning ’between two rivers’) was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the
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I could have never predicted that my life would come crashing down on a hot summer day at the Nautica Courts. It was the final round of the local rap battle tournament. My opponent had just delivered a killer freestyle that destroyed any hopes of a comeback. It was a fatal blow. An effortless pun on my clearance-bought clothes and my braces would forever brand me as a clown. The crowds taunts swamped me in humiliation. My opponent’s intimidating stare solidified his clear win. A shiver went down
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In the article Rap and Moral Character by Susan Dwyer‚ the subject of concern is the consequences of listening to rap music and the effect it has on moral character. The author argues that rap music contribute to the corruption of moral character‚ it is misogynistic‚ promotes violence and street crime. In this paper I will examine the author’s claims‚ use of key concepts‚ and her reasoning. By doing so‚ I will be able to demonstrate that Dwyer’s thesis is unjust and unsupported. In what follows‚
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The following six questions are addressed in a critique of an article entitled: Controversial Rap Themes‚ Gender Portrayals and Skin Tone Distortion: A Content Analysis of Rap Music Videos. This article was published in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media and written by Kate Conrad‚ Travis Dixon‚ and Yuanyuan Zhang. Kate and Yuanyuan are PhD students in the Department of Speech Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Travis is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication
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