When Gilmour joined, he took much of his guitar sound from the sonic palette used for The Beatle’s The White Album. He used the arpeggios of Dear Prudence and You Never Give Me Money as jumping off points for his own playing, particularly on the tracks Any Colour you Like and Eclipse from Dark Side of the Moon. Roger Walters was a big fan of John Lennon, who took inspiration from the confessional song writing style of Lennon’s 1970 Plastic Ono Band. Possibly the biggest influence on the recording of Dark Side of the
Hard bop differentiated with the West Coast's cooler, calmer response. It was type of rejection to the more relaxed, West Coast jazz, called Cool Jazz. Hard bop's influences included bebop, blues, rhythm and blues, and black gospel music. Though this style of music was set out for all people to listen to, it mostly set for African Americans, which is known as being “Afro-centric”. Hard bop was used as a form of releasing emotions by African American men to illustrate their frustration with the social, political, and economic problems of America at that time, which aimed mostly at segregation and racism.
While all the protest was going on, rock music was definitely not standing by idly watching what it had started. It was in their with the people. Artists such as Jimi Hendrix, a poor part African American, part Cherokee from a broken home in Seattle, were reflecting the desperate mood of late 1960’s youth through a harsh yet psychedelic rock. In 1966 Hendrix formed the “Jimi Hendrix Experience and amazed young European audiences with a wild act modeled after former employers such as Little Richard and James Brown. After achieving some fame in the United Kingdom Hendrix came to the United States and delivered a loud, angry electric blues rock that captured the violence of the war torn era.
White teenagers practically ate it up in the post-World War II era. Altchuler quotes Mitch Miller, a talent scout for Columbia records as saying “young people might be protesting the Southern tradition of not having anything to do with colored people. There is a steady-and healthy-breaking down of color barriers in the United States; perhaps rhythm and blues rage…is another expression of it” (17). Miller believed white youth embracing R&B was a huge leap for racial harmony. By the mid-1950s, R&B began to gain major traction as the popularity of the radio began to surge.
Sonny was getting better. He was on the verge of releasing his very own jazz music record, recorded by him and his friends. All I could think about was the words that Sonny’s childhood friend had once told me “Sonny had such a death wish; "He don't want to die. He wants to live. Don't nobody want to die, ever”.
She said that when she’s singing the song, it made her fearful of retaliation, but because its imagery reminded her of her father, she continued to sing it. The song is related to her because her father was denied treatment for a fatal lung disorder because of prejudice. She kept on singing the song not only because everyone liked it, also because the same things like prejudices and lynching African American, were still going on in the South. Strange fruit made her famous with her 1939 recording.
It was brown, and got it's name from Queen Elizabeth, whose nickname was Bess. So therefore since they used that type of gun a lot during her time, it was named the Brown Bess. The gun was very important to Tim's dad. Life thinks it is pointless for young men to go to war and fight over their “freedom” which he defines, as only being able to “mock your King”, and “shoot your neighbor.” Life has seen through the eyes of war, and has seen his friends die, with their guts spread out all over themselves. Life carried the body of his friend in a sack to the boys mother, and he describes it as being a very depressing time in his life.
Kemker 1 Benjamin Kemker English 2201-006 Ms. Maiti 19 October 2012 “Thick as a Brick” Jethro Tull’s 1972 single track self-titled album “Thick as a Brick” is an example of how political satire of one age can carry over to another. Ironically, one of the song’s themes is history repeating itself which is the appeal the song has to those willing to listen. At the time of its writing, front man Ian Anderson set out to do something completely different from the other big names in music. Dave Morris states in his essay: It is somewhat difficult to define exactly what the “concept” of Thick as a Brick is; it is not an attack on the evils of capitalistic society like Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, nor is it an exploration of artistic awakening and the role of the artist in society, like The Who’s Tommy. It can be seen more as an artistic attack on nearly everything in mainstream society, including attitudes toward children, art, war, and general materialism.
In addition my personal experience when liestening to these songs. A brief glance into the history of “God bless America” and “This land is your land” shows that both songs were composed during the darkest periods in American history, and the world’s as a whole. “God bless America” was written around 1918 by Irving Berlin but only became popular after 1938, when the World War II happened. This has later become the signature song of Kate Smith, a vocalist who sang the well-known revised version. However Woody Guthrie was not so moved by the song because according to him, it painted an unrealistic picture of america then.
One of the most profound differences is the way both types of music came about. Rock and roll started back in the early 60’s. It was a time when the Vietnam War had just begun. Steppenwolf, The Beetles, and The Doors all were sending out soulful messages through their music. They were singing about war, drugs, and love instead of war.