Just like Vicente Fernandez, his music dealt with issues about love, politics, and religion. Infante was an actor and a musician and so in a lot of his movies he performs his songs wearing the classical charro mariachi suit. One of his famous serenata songs “Esta Noche” deals with love and how much he suffers for the woman. These two great artists are not only known for their songs and lyrics but they are also admired because of the great patriotism they have for their country. Since mariachi is an unofficial symbol to
Running Head: Music of Different Cultures Music of Different Cultures Alicia Watts Grand Canyon University MUS 252 Music Appreciations September 1, 2008 Music provides the soundtrack of our lives. We listen to music to pass time, to relax, and to set a mood. However, as important as music is to our lives, we seldom treat it as a window into history. In fact, American popular music provides an index into certain fundamental historical experiences, such as slavery and immigration. Every group of Americans had its own distinctive musical traditions.
Jay-Z also has produced a musical titled, "Fela," along with Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, in celebration of Nigerian political activist, Fela Kuti. Jay-Z is known for his rythym and ryhme technique to him that perfect flow in his performances. He is also known for his ability to create lyrics in his head. Along with his musical career, Jay-Z has also appeared in films, such as, Back Stage, State Property, Streets is Watching, Paper Soldiers and Fade to Black. Fade to Black is a documentary about Jay-Z's career.
Composers make use of distinctive voices within their texts to invoke a reaction and create experiences in the audience to communicate a certain perspective, which may challenge the individual’s ideas and views. The poetry of Banjo Paterson expresses the use of distinctive voices throughout his works. In Paterson’s well known poem, ‘Clancy of the Overflow’ there is a combination of language techniques, such as first person narration, visual imagery, alliteration, and rhythm, that form a distinctive voice that is able to communicate a distinct and underlying meaning to the reader. Similar to the work of Paterson is Christine Anu’s song, ‘My Island Home’ which conveys her strong connection to her homeland, convincing the responder of how beautiful the natural landscape is. Her
In general, folk music was viewed as a window into the cultural life of these groups. Folk songs communicated the hopes, sorrows and convictions of ordinary people's everyday lives. Increasingly, music made by other groups of Americans such as Native Americans, Mexican-Americans, and Cajuns came under the umbrella of "folk music." The term "roots music" is now used to refer to this broad range of musical genres, which include blues, gospel, traditional country, zydeco, tejano, and Native American pow-wow. Over the years, “roots music” has been globalized all over America and the world and has turned into a multi-billion dollar industry.
For some musician’s their story is definitive of the style of music they play. This is usually the case with genre musicians like “rappers” and frequently country musicians. For these two specific groups there is a social connotation associated with the kind of music they played. Many of these types of musicians would probably tell you similar stories about their experiences and their love for their music. In that regard (and in relation to Greenwood) we can begin to understand his creative brilliance by looking at his story.
From its composition in the early history of the United States until now, The Star Spangled Banner has carried on a long tradition as America’s national anthem, depicting the patriotism and pride of its people. Since then, various artists have performed their own renditions of the original tune; modifications include rearranging melodic lines, adding harmonies, and changing texture or timbre, sometimes eliminating human voices altogether in favor of instrumentals, just to name a few. These alterations often have a significant effect on the expression of the music, and even two versions performed on the same instrument can sound dramatically different. As a result of variations in basic musical elements, the affect of trumpeter Kevin Gaffney’s
Carter’s arrangements and settings have and continue to be performed by orchestras and choirs throughout the world. Unquestionably gifted composer-arranger, it is Carter’s arrangement of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” that is most often used to present the anthem in formal settings. “Lift Every Voice and Sing”; often called "The Negro National Hymn," "The Negro National Anthem," "The Black National Anthem," or "The African-American National Anthem", was written by a poet called James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) and then set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954) in 1900. Singing this song quickly became a way for African Americans to demonstrate their patriotism and hope for the future. In calling for earth and heaven to "ring with the harmonies of Liberty," they could speak out subtly against racism and especially the huge number of lynching’s accompanying the rise of the Ku Klux Klan at the turn of the century.
Music and the lyrics that accompany it is one way to do this because of the emotion that can be convey through music. In “Sonny’s Blues”, James Baldwin uses music and song lyrics to convey, to both the reader and to the other characters in the story, what the characters cannot through
The narrator wishes to keep those memories of his people alive in the form of song. One of Cane's recurring themes is the struggle to finding an appropriate language to express the world as the narrator (or perhaps Toomer) sees it. Hence, the book experiments with prose, poetry, verse and hymns. Here, however, the narrator is recognizing the use of song to communicate and keep the past alive. The opening stanza's direction to sing out into the night is something of a warning to pay homage to previous generations of slaves before they are forgotten.