Outlook On The Socio-Cultural Influence On Music By Roberto Conca

A Historical Outlook on the Socio-Cultural Influence on Music

by Roberto Conca

30 – december – 2014

Table of Contents

1. introduction – page 3

2. ancient beginnings: An Historical Outlook – page 3

3. the composition between soind and space – page 6

4. the socio-cultural influence – page 8

5. conclusion – page 15

6. bibliography – page 16

1. Introduction

Music is the leading way people are influenced. From the beginning of time when the first person or animal realized they could make sound, they used it to either get people to listen to what they had to say or used it to help show what they wanted to influence people to do – a communication system. Music has been used to influence people to think, to act and to have faith in what

With his critical lyrics he inspired widespread social protest against the Vietnam War (“Where have all the flowers gone?”) and the continuing inequality of the colored people of America. He was a mighty one-man protest musician and has been called the greatest poet of the 20th century. Increasingly popular during this time was “the unofficial anthem of the counterculture movement of the 1960s” Scott McKenzie’s version of San Francisco (Be sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) which is credited with bringing thousands of young people to San Francisco, California, during the late 1960s and became an anthem for freedom, which was widely played during Czechoslovakia’s 1968 Prague Spring uprising. The Beach Boys were an American rock band, formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The band’s original group consisted of Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, 3 of them brothers, and also were their cousin Mike Love, and his friend Al Jardine. The arrival on the musical scene in 1962 of the four boys from Liverpool, The Beatles, was revolutionary. The crowd of the U.K went wild. When they made their first trip to America they had the same shattering reception. The guitar was king once again. The harmonizing of Lennon and McCartney’s “From Me to You” rang out on commercial radios throughout the land. Their music, and more so their appearance, became standard, pudding basin haircuts became customary and their snazzy

He was an English musician who gained worldwide fame, being one of the original members of The Beatles, for his following solo career, and for his political direct action (activism) and pacifism. Shot by Mark David Chapman at the front steps of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City on Monday 8th December 1980. Lennon was pronounced dead at Roosevelt Hospital. Died with 40 years old. At the hospital, it was indicated that nobody could have lived for more than a few minutes after receiving such injuries. Shortly after local news reported Lennon's death, crowds gathered at Roosevelt Hospital and in front of the Dakota. Lennon was cremated on 10 December 1980 at the Fern Cliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York; the ashes were given to Ono, who chose not to hold a funeral for him. The first media report of Lennon's death to a US national audience was announced by Howard Cosell, on ABC's Monday Night