Analyzing The Essay 'Song Of The Summer Of 1963'

After reading your essay “Song of the Summer of 1963” I noticed that you gave examples of good and sweet music from the 90’s and that is ok, because you are trying to convince us that old music was better than new songs. In your essay, you don’t fail to give detailed examples and even sometimes a few of the lyrics of the songs that you are talking about. Old music is great, but we can’t despise the music of the new generations. The tendency in music mostly depends on what is currently happening in general in a place or territory. Status in society change constantly, new historical events start happening and is most likely that new songs will refer to these events. For example, when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, new songs came up, like for example, “Almost like praying” written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The lyric of this song it only contains the 78 municipalities of Puerto Rico. This is a good example of how music uses a reference to events in the present. That is why music,

Despite all these songs that are emerging today, there are still classic songs very remembered and heard. Songs that impacted in some way a generation and that continue to impact the new generations. In your essay, you said: “That sense of unity promise, and purpose was also evident in the music of the march. It’s music that still stirs emotions to this day”. That sentence supports what I am commenting on at the beginning of this paragraph. It is possible that the new generations are unaware of very good classical songs, but the people who previously listened to the song, keep remembering it. For example, song, artist, and bands between the decades of the 60s and 90s have managed to impact more than one generation with their talents and lyrics. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Journey, and Queens are examples of bands that are still very recognized today and many of them were successful in the past decades and that they still