English – Poetry Seminar Good afternoon, in this seminar I will be discussing how the band “The Black Eyed Peas” has used a whole range of different poetic techniques in their world wide hit ‘Where is the Love?’, such as similes, atmosphere, rhyme, assonance, metaphors, ballad, climax, repetition, rhetorical questions, mood and imagery to create and establish reader positioning. More aspects of the song including mood, discourse and themes will also be addressed. The Song was written by Will.i.am, Taboo, Apl.de.ap and Ron Fair. Will.i.am and Ron Fair also co-produced the song. Shortly after Christmas 2001, will.i.am created a loop and a guitar part that he liked.
The four traditional pillars of hip-hop are DJing, rapping, breakdancing, and graffiti art. Five additional pillars are sometimes added: hip-hop fashion, beatboxing, hip-hop slang, street knowledge, and street entrepreneurship. Hip-hop music incorporates a number of iconic elements, most notably DJing and rapping, along with things like beatboxing, sampling, and juggling beats on turntables. In early forms of the music, DJs would loop portions of songs, highlighting the interest percussive patterns found in them, to create their own new, emergent beats. These beats were eventually coupled with a rhyming, chanting style of singing, referred to as rapping.
Genre Overview * Developed in late 50’s * music originally evolved from the style of Jamaican music that included calypso beats as well as jazz and blues riffs. * The genre became known for its scratchy beats, fast tempo and the piano, guitar (and in later stages, horns) as the prevailing instruments * Ska music became known as the precursor to reggae, and became widely popular in the 1960's * The Specials and The Toasters two figure heads of ska sound * As ska music grew to be a popular genre of music, revival bands in the United States started to form. One such band, The Toasters, could effectively be argued as the frontrunner of the ska revival. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Operation Ivy paid homage to ska music by incorporating a distinctly ska sound into their punk music, thereby creating the ska punk genre. * Finally, during the late 1990's, mainstream ska bands began to see a dip in popularity.
The focus of this analysis is the means by which the pop scoring of Breakfast at Tiffany’s assists in the portrayal of Holly as having two distinct identities during the film. The music was composed by Henry Mancini, the lyrics to Moon River written by Johnny Mercer, the two went on to win a plethora of Academy and Grammy awards for their work on the film. Mancini includes a combination of monothematic variations of Moon River and jazz scoring into the film which seamlessly layers a moral continuity on both the narrative and the music by the time the film’s climatic moment is reached. The pop score sees the inclusion of seven other pieces of music during the film, most of these being diegetic and so providing less in terms of narrative function, as supported by Smith: ‘Moon River and Breakfast at Tiffany’s serve as the basis for most of the non-diegetic underscore and thus are the most important cues in terms of the music’s narrational functions’[2]. Mancini’s isolation of Moon River as the main non-diegetic score constructs unity within the narrative that is easily identified even by the casual viewer.
Dubstep (/ˈdʌbstɛp/) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London, England, United Kingdom. The music website Allmusic has described its overall sound as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals. "[1] The earliest dubstep releases date back to 1998, and were usually featured as B-sides of 2-step garage single releases. These tracks were darker, more experimental remixes with less emphasis on vocals, and attempted to incorporate elements of breakbeat and drum and bass into 2-step. In 2001, this and other strains of dark garage music began to be showcased and promoted at London's night club Plastic People, at the "Forward" night (sometimes stylised as FWD>>), which went on to be considerably influential to the development of dubstep.
Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” is a rap song released n 2009. The video features many photographs of multiple locations in New York, short video clips of Jay-Z rapping and Alicia Keys playing the piano. The song is mainly a low and mass culture text, but also has some high culture aspects. Folk culture is difficult to find in the video or lyrics. Because of the way Jay-Z presents the song, it becomes clear that there may be a postmodernist undertone taken in the song and music video.
In the mid 60s”Rock Steady”-a slower tempo with emphasis on syncopation-grew out of “Ska”. However, by the late 60s, yet another new Jamaican musical form had emerged-“Reggae”, the most famous of the musical styles developed on the island. Reggae spans the globe and has influenced the music of internationally famous performers in the US, Japan, UK, South America, and the rest of the world. Cuba: For most of the eighteenth
It was used by The Strokes in the form of their song "You Only Live Once" which was released on their album First Impressions of Earth on January 3, 2006. The motto was used by pop duo Unsolved Mysteries as their song titled "You Only Live Once," which premiered on Episode 7 of American television show Skins (Episode 7 premiered on February 28, 2011). [6] It was also used by American deathcore band Suicide Silence with their song "You Only Live Once," which appeared on their album The Black Crown on July 26, 2011. It was later popularized by rapper Drake, who planned to release a joint mixtape entitled YOLO along with Rick Ross. [7] To promote this mixtape, "YOLO" was mentioned
Music, religion and the government each have unique elements to them. Music is a big part of Jamaica’s culture. There were three main types of well-known music. In 1951 the first recording studio opened and recorded a mix of African and European folk music, also known as mento (Scaruffi, 2002). In 1959 a man by the name of Theoptilus Beckford recorded the first ska record.
Claims have been made for Manu Dibango's "Soul Makossa" (1972), Jerry Butler's "One Night Affair" (1972), the Hues Corporation's "Rock the Boat" (1973), George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby" (1974),[6][20] and "Kung Fu Fighting" (1974) by Biddu and Carl Douglas. The first article about disco was written in September 1973 by Vince Aletti for Rolling Stone magazine. In 1974 New York City's WPIX-FM premiered the first disco radio show. Musical influences include funk, Latin and soul music. The disco sound has soaring, often reverberated vocals over a steady "four-on-the-floor" beat, an eighth note (quaver) or 16th note (semi-quaver) hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and a prominent, syncopated electric bass line sometimes consisting of octaves.