The Killers I watched The Killers in San Diego‚ California. Event was the Wrex the hall 2012 on December 7th. It was my first rock concert I had been too. I have been to reggae‚ rap and a few house dj concerts but never a rock. Definitely a different crowd comes to these events. For the majority they are mostly white Americans and they seem to be passionate about the music being played at the time. Not so much dancing but a lot more singing along with Brandon Flowers with some jumping up and
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influences. I make an effort to incorporate such music that sends messages that help my identity: Girl Power‚ Black Consciousness and Self Awareness. For me these music choices usually can be categorized into such genres as Reggae‚ Neo Soul and Soul Music. For example reggae songs like Concrete Jungle by Bob Marley discuss awareness to the socio-economic plight of Blacks in Jamaica and can be related to the condition many Blacks face internationally. Marley compares life in the Concrete Jungle as
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United States from Kingston‚ Jamaica and settled in the West Bronx of New York. He attempted to incorporate his disc jockeying style that he used in Jamaica‚ which involved reciting improvised rhymes over reggae record. The downfall in his attempt was that the area of New York was disinterested in reggae during the time. This fueled DJ Kool Herc into finding another appealing sound in order to please his audiences. Kool Herc’s creative new style involved chanting over the instrumental or percussion sections
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genre of music‚ a certain substance will be associated with it such as “… marijuana with reggae and rap…”. Boyd’s (2011) take on media representation can backup this argument however she suggests that the cannabis references in music and film include a positive representation of “… recreational marijuana use‚ growing‚ selling and importing” (Boyd‚ 2011‚ p64). There is a heavy link between stoner films‚ reggae music and marijuana (Boyd‚ 2011‚ Christenson‚ 2012). Boyd (2011) suggests that films such
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Background Growing up in White Plains‚ New York‚ Matthew Paul Miller was raised as a Reconstructionist Jew. Reconstructionist Judaism is an American-based Jewish movement that views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization. Miller spent most of his childhood attending Hebrew school at a local synagogue getting to know his religion‚ however that quickly changed as he became a teenager. His teenage years consisted of rebelling against his upbringing as most adolescents do. However‚ Miller
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Latin-American Music All music styles‚ genre’s‚ instruments‚ have had an origin of where it began. Specifically‚ Latin-American music has had a complex origin and history of where it all started. Not only that‚ but ever since it began it has evolved into something slightly different as the centuries have gone by. This style has a sense of unique dynamics‚ especially compared to other styles of music. If one is of Latin-American descent they usually have a favorite Latin song‚ dance‚ instrument‚
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Identify and explain two ways which youth subcultures are influenced by social class.(17) One example if subculture that is influenced by social class are punks.they have been studied by Dick Hebdige. Punks have emerged in the 1970’s their subculture was a response to dominance of the media. Punks were a working class subculture and they were frustrated with the economy and social situations. Hebdige came up with the term ’bank generation’ to describe that the only thing they had in common
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Sublime Sublime was a band of the 90’s who played their first gig back in the summer of l988. This performance that started the famous Peninsula Riot of Long Beach‚ CA during the 4th of July. This band was once the average garage band that every kid wants to be in. But they changed from backyard beer buddies‚ into a great musicians. Sublime began recording in early 1992 when they joined up with Long Beach’s local studio Skunk Records where they recorded they incredible
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Punk Rock in the 1970’s‚ and also Reggae (Borthwick& Moy 2004:42). Each of these movements has
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of many genres such as rocksteady‚ reggae‚ American jazz‚
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