Topic: Music

Found 5 articles
The Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Movement
06/30/10 - 5274 words
“A song is something that we communicate to those people who otherwise would not understand where we are coming from. You could give them a long political speech – they would still not understand. But I tell you:... Go to Article »
Anti-Rhetoric in Alanis Morissette's "Mary Jane"
04/30/10 - 2290 words
Rhetoric is commonly regarded as the art of persuasion. To take it a step further, Gerard A. Hauser states that rhetoric is “An instrumental use of language. One person engages another person in an exchange of symbols to... Go to Article »
Richard Lester, The Beatles, and the Rock Musical Revised
04/02/10 - 5749 words
A popular film genre in Britain and the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s was the rock and roll musical. As Susan Hayward points out, this type of film came about as Hollywood and record companies sought to... Go to Article »
Innovation or Desperation: David Bowie's "Little Wonder"
02/26/10 - 2786 words
Despite releasing twenty-two albums in the nearly thirty years between his debut in 1967 and the commercially rejected No. 1 Outside, the general opinion of David Bowie in 1996 was that, though a living legend, he had not recorded... Go to Article »
Swagger and Soul: Analyzing the Music from Ocean's 11
01/04/10 - 3679 words
One of the more overt dilemmas in the music of Ocean’s Eleven was the necessary need to reflect on the idea of old guard Las Vegas and the obvious modernity of the time in which the movie is set. It epitomizes classic Rat... Go to Article »