‘’Pleasure hardens into boredom because, if it is to remain pleasure, it must not demand any effort and therefore moves rigorously in the worn grooves of association. No independent thinking must be expected from the audience: the product prescribes every reaction: not by its natural structure (which collapses under reflection), but by signals. Any logical[…]
Florence Beatrice (Smith) Price was born on April 9, 1987, in a city called little rock, Arkansas, and later died on June 3, 1953, Chicago Illinois. She is known as the first black female musician who had her symphony performed by the major American orchestra in 1933 in E minor concert during the Chicago’s century progress[…]
It is difficult to imagine something like music being of extreme importance in difficult humanitarian situations. As one would imagine, all of the crucial events would come out of revolts, strikes or political actions. However, sometimes, culture can be a very powerful tool in these kind of crises to help organise or even trigger these[…]
Arts play a significant role in the transformation of the society, socially, technically, economically, and politically. Spanning, from visual arts, through literature, and musical compositions to dramatic performance, the contribution of arts in the transformation of the entire society is substantial (Nakai, DeMars and McAllester, 6). A great level of innovation has been key to[…]
This essay will attempt to give an answer to the question do musicians need to be entrepreneurial? In fact, it will attempt to demonstrate that musicians have always been entrepreneurs and that this fact has not changed over time. In order to do so, we will examine how musicians used to do business before the eighteenth century[…]
Authenticity, authentic. Words that have been used countless times to describe an artist, a piece of music or a music style. According to the Cambridge dictionary, authenticity is the quality of being real or true. How do we relate this definition to the description of an artist or a piece of music as authentic? How[…]
Introduction Songs and poems are important pieces of art that are used to convey different messages within the society. Such genres of literature can convey a message of love, art, hate, jealousy, war, or politics. For instance, the poem “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is representative of a piece of art that has presented[…]
As a result, Of Monsters and Men excels at creating songs that are enigmatic and metaphorical. Their latest track, “Crystals,” off their next album, Beneath the Skin, gives readers a few hints that make the complex meaning not impossible to grasp for themselves. In contrast to artists such as Mumford & Sons and Twenty-One Pilots,[…]
Christopher Small gives us this word, Musicking, which definition involves pretty much any activity related to music and all of the issues that may come from it, such as how we relate to one another by celebrating musical rituals. One of the main peculiarities of this book that has attracted one’s attention is the depiction of the[…]
COVID-19 became the sixth pandemic recorded since the influenza epidemic in 1918. In Wuhan, China, COVID-19 was initially identified and then spread globally. The International Council for Virus Taxonomy was officially referred to as Coronavirus based on phylogenetic research as Severe Acute Breathing Syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2). SARS-CoV-2 should be an animals coronavirus spillover which then adjusts[…]
Music plays a vital role in the society’s preferred for entertainment, expressing one’s feelings, and spreading an important message to the audience. Music has deep roots in the history of the African American community. African Americans are highly associated with music such as Jazz, Soul, and Rhythm and Blues. The development of the African American[…]
One of the key elements underlying the development of jazz has been the willingness of musicians to incorporate influences from a wide variety of global musical traditions. From the very beginning jazz took its cues from African rhythms, primarily the music of the Yoruba people of West Africa. Jazz drummer Art Blakey’s study of African[…]
Sampling, since its emergence in popular music in the 1970s, presents somewhat of a grey area in terms of authorship. Although its ubiquity in present day music indicates wide spread acceptance of sampling as a compositional technique, the question of who is responsible for creating what is still very much open. This essay does not[…]