Daniel Felsenfeld’s “Rebel Music” is about how he found his love and passion in classical music. As a teenager he felt like he was going through a “personal drought” because it seemed like he had a dry lack in the culture of music. His friend Mike introduced him to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and finally found music for the first time. I found the article interesting because he played the piano and then stopped going to lessons, but then after listening to Beethoven he was instantly hooked and became a composer later on in life. For Felsenfeld, classical music made him feel different because he was the only person that listened to
In the essay “Rebel Music,” Daniel Felsenfeld, is a composer, author, and teacher of music at City College of New York, that explains many dispositions in his childhood, he found a deep inspiration in music in his late adolescence. In Daniel’s high school years, the contradictory norm among his circle of friends was to adopt a rebellious style with punk, or straight edge clothing and attitudes. With their image, along came their auditory preferences, correspondingly: metal, punk or other anti-establishment music.
The Musical Glossary & Works Cited Introduction: All About the Revolution “Take your position! Aim! Stay Low! FIRE!”
Musical Journey Till The Kent State Massacre Music serves as a platform for commentary on important social issues. Social events are an inspiration for creativity, and often, this creativity gathers momentum to tackle these societal concerns. The mutual relationship between music and social issues is seen evidently throughout the history. The Vietnam War serves as a great example to showcase the interdependency between the society and music.
On this topic of resistance, within the book music can be portrayed as a form of artistic expression and creativity that empowers the characters in the book to assert their individuality and agency. For example, when our main character tries to express his culture through his new devout musical interest. His father states this “My boy, you are by blood, by appearance, by education, and by taste, a white man. Now, why do you want to throw your life away amidst the poverty and ignorance, in the hopeless struggle, of the black people of the United States? Then look at the terrible handicap you are placing on yourself by going home and working as a Negro composer; you will never be able to get the hearing for your work which it might deserve.
Music is one of the few languages in the world that is universal. Regardless of your hometown, native tongue, or culture, everyone can indulge in the beautiful melodies and rhythms that are created through different methods, whether it be a unified symphony or the gleeful cacophonies of children banging on pots and pans. This gift of a universal language is what makes Rachel M. Harper's “The Myth of Music” captivating and entrancing to the reader; everyone can understand Harper’s emotions through references that allude back to the art of music. Harper’s use of metaphors linked by personification, hyperbole, and asyndeton further aids the reader in empathizing with the melancholic yet loving passion that she holds for music and her father.
Singers and song writers were producing music and dancing in ways that were viewed as provocative in nature. The younger generation was using it as a form of rebellion. Kids were tired of the idea that they would have to work long hours to make a good living. They largely decided that they would rather drop out, smoke, drink and party. This lead to a new generation of
Music is something that has been around since the beginning of time and will continue to be used to evoke powerful emotions. On October 20, 2021, Tom Morello published an essay called “Songs of Justice Songs of Power”, written for the New York Times is about how songs are continuously used to give a voice to movements. Tom Morello is famous for his expert guitar riffs and for combining powerful music with political statements and activism. He spent several years in bands like Rage Against the Machine, and Audioslave. Morello is writing to the beaten down, who need an anthem to stand behind, and the people who beat them down, who need to see the movement is real.
Throughout the centuries music has become an extensive influence on what shapes our cultural ideologies. It has been around since prehistoric times, evolving with the generations, changing styles to fit current trends or outlooks of society. Music has the power to impact younger generations, and to upset older ones as thought by Glenn Altschuler, a professor of Cornell as well as the writer for All Shook Up: How Rock ‘N’ Roll Changed America. Altschuler believed that rock ‘n’ roll impacted America during a crucial time when colored were fighting for civil rights. Rock ‘n’ roll united the youth, tearing a hole through segregation, uniting people of every race, ethnicity, sexuality and gender, all for the sake of a good song.
Jazz in the Third Reich was seen as an especially degenerate art form. Firstly, the German government saw the genre as both a Jewish and Black invention. This contended with the social hierarchy within the Nazi regime. People who were Jewish or of Jewish descent were seen as less human than the ‘pure, Aryan race’ of the German people, and anyone who was not white was seen as sub-human - lower than Jews in the Nazi’s social hierarchy. This social view is best represented in the picture below.
The music of the rebellious is called punk rock. It is a genre that is mainly violent, and aggressive music for the younger generation. It started around the 1970s and is still continuing. The music has gotten more popular with the younger kids because they have serious first world problems and it makes them angry so they listen to music that also angry sounding. The music's history and culture is actually not really exciting but should be known.
This type of music ends up as sort of a proof or validation of our government and socialization in America. With this sense of pride comes a sense of continuity back to our forefathers in the early years of our country. Most importantly, this type of music integrates our society. The author is Kimberly Sena Moore who has a Ph.D. She has clinical background experience in this industry.
What better way to vent dissatisfaction than through music! Also in addition to the frustrations described above, teen rebellion from the parental obligations was also in full swing. The result of this was 'free love' and experimenting with drugs.
The style a band or singer portrays gives the audience a specific image of the artist and is what differentiates one singer to the next. The music seems as if there is a late night zen feeling (Turner). The Neighbourhood’s style is more laid back, it gives the feeling of peace and serenity. The music is the perfect music to kick back and relax to while laying on the beach or chilling in bed. “... which vibrate with the twist and turns of a young woman taking command of her body, mind and then the world” (Levy).
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything” (Plato). If my childhood was filled with anything: it was imagination. From my earliest memories of my cousin, and I putting on a sold out concert on my papaw’s front porch; to putting my baby dolls to sleep with lullabies. Music has always been a big part of my life: it was the one thing I could always count on, no matter where I went; and that still stands true today.
