Papers on Music and Musicians
Substance Abuse And Musicians
Words: 507 - Pages: 2.... an overdose on drugs. Or, the events of the life of Steven Tyler, of
Aerosmith, throughout his years as a drug user.
Research questions may be: why do rock star’s turn to drugs when
they already have all they need? What led Brad Nowell (or any musician) to
drugs? What are the fatalities of substance abuse in rock stars?
The reason I am interested in this topic is not only because it can
hold my interest, but I also want to see if I can analyze some reasons for
turning to drugs. I am planning on majoring in psychology and I think this
is part of the whole analysis that psychologists like to use. It can be
kind of a practice for me. .....
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Paul McCartney: Six Feet Under?
Words: 4401 - Pages: 17.... the their fans. However, clues, which seem so
cleverly arranged, are random coincidences or inaccurate interpretations of
existing facts, and all Beatles have denied that they were in any way involved
with the deceit. This leads people to believe that maybe Paul did die in that
alleged accident.
In the late summer 1969, the Northern Illinois University campus
newspaper, Northern Star, obtained a list of clues from a student who wrote a
research paper on the hoax. (Saki) Russell Gibb, a disc jockey for the Detroit
radio station, WNKR, then got a copy of it from a friend of his, and on his
radio show, proceeded to read them and even make u .....
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The History Of Greek Music
Words: 1150 - Pages: 5.... For the Greeks, music was of divine origin. According to Greek mythology, the gods themselves invented music and it's instruments. Many of the early myths told of the powerful effects of music. Music played an important part in both the public and private lives of the Greeks. They believed it could deeply affect human behavior. Greek music was built up of a series of distinct modes, each with it's own name. According to the doctrine of ethos, each mode was so powerful that it gave music the ability to influence human actions in a precise way. The Phrygian mode expressed passionate and intimate emotions, where as the Dorian mode produced f .....
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Changing Faces's All Day / All Night
Words: 501 - Pages: 2.... they could make a living performing, they decided to begin the group Changing Faces.
On this album, they work with several other artists. Artists such as rapper Jay Z, who is featured in the song “All of my days”. Another performer, R & B singer R. Kelly, produced most of the songs on this album as well as being featured in some of the songs. R. Kelly also produced most of the songs on their previous album, Stroke you up.
On All Day/ All Night the songs are mainly about reflections of the title itself. The first side of the album, all day, are songs about falling in love and are in a major scale with a moderate beat. It gives .....
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Appalachian Musicians And Singers And The Songs They Write
Words: 613 - Pages: 3.... Ford and Ernest Tub have left us with joy in our harts and
tears in our eyes. Singing and listening to songs like The Old Rugged Cross has
carried over from generation to generation in Appalachia.
Another branch of Appalachian music that encircle around religion is
bluegrass. One of the best known Bluegrass artists (Bill Monroe)Known also as
the father of bluegrass music, dedicated a portion of every performance to a
gospel bluegrass harmony number. Bluegrass became popular in the region for a
number of reasons. Not the least of which was the inexpensiveness of home made
instruments.(Ergood and Kuhre 189) The relatively small size ma .....
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Rock Music
Words: 1151 - Pages: 5.... records played by whites but composed by blacks. Whites were frustrated because there weren't any white artists, and they didn't want the blacks to be the stars until Bill Haley appeared with his "Rock Around the Clock". In this decade, Elvis Presley introduced a music that was sexual-suggestive, and outraged many adults of that time. In time, he changed the style of the music by adopting a country and western style and became a national hero. By the end of this decade and the start of the next, Rock n' Roll started to decline because it was formula-ridden and it was too sentimental. Teenage audiences transferred their allegiance to .....
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Franz Liszt And Kurt Cobain
Words: 412 - Pages: 2.... the rock band Nirvana. Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967,
in Aberdeen, Washington. He was passed on to several relatives after his
parents divorced when he was eight years old. For some time he even lived
under a bridge and was hospitalized for a heroin addiction. It was not
entirely unexpected that Cobain committed suicide. He had had entered a
coma by overdosing on a mixture of champagne and tranquilizers on March 4.
Also, Kurt's family history showed that two of his father's uncles
committed suicide, along with the fact that there were a lot of
dysfunctional marriages and alcoholism present. During a concert, Kurt
would jerk aroun .....
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The Existentialism Of Dave Matthews Band: Rhyme And Reason
Words: 583 - Pages: 3.... This theme of not mattering in the world is continued throughout the song. “ Well I know these voices must be my soul I’ve had enough of being alone I got no place to go.”
The theme of dying is also a big part of this song. Dave talks about dying through his own devices and “ ending up 6 feet underground” because “ he needs to kill his pain”. In addition to showing that death is the ultimate end, this also shows that happiness only exists in the present. By needing “to kill his pain” Dave shows that he is unhappy and troubled at the present time and needs relief immediately. Since the song is mostly about dying a .....
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Hip Hop Music
Words: 943 - Pages: 4.... Hip hop music was formed to get people in
the mood to break dance. From hip hop music evolved rap music. Rap and hip
hop music consists of DJ’s and MC’s who would "Cut ‘N’ Mix" or talk over
music that they played. Another technique that formed is scratching’.
This means forcing the record back and forth against the needle. A hip hop
artists that made it big in the eighties was Afrika Bambaataa who was the
leader of the ‘Hip-Hop’ culture. This man organized Zulu Nation which was
an organization of break dancers. Run DMC were the first Black rap artists
that gained the interest of all races of people. The hip-hop culture is .....
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Metallica
Words: 658 - Pages: 3.... and still is.
On August 27, 1987, was on their way to Copenhagen to do a show with Ozzy when their tour bus flipped over throwing Cliff Burton from the bus. killing him instantly when the bus rolled on top of him and smashed his body. "I saw the bus lying right on him. I saw his legs sticking out. I freaked. The bus driver, I recall, was trying to yank the blanket out from under him to use for other people. I just went ‘Don’t fucking do that!’ I already wanted to kill the guy. I don’t know if he was drunk or if he hit some ice. All I knew was he was driving and Cliff wasn’t alive anymore." James Hetfeild 1993. That nigh .....
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