The Vietnamese War brought hardships for everybody‚ and those hardships drove some songwriters to write about the troubles. These people include Simon and Garfunkel‚ Arlo Guthrie‚ and Bob Dylan. They created more mellow sounds in their music which really expressed the depression and sadness of conflict. Drugs were making their way everywhere‚ and music was no exception. Artists would write about the feelings of being high on drugs‚ and
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bands and believed everything they said‚ did‚ or felt. Most bands that attended Woodstock were against war and made songs with antiwar messages‚ some even degraded the president. Some bands that performed at Woodstock were The Who‚ Jimi Hendrix‚ Bob Dylan‚ and Country Joe Macdonald. In 1969‚ alongside with many other bands‚ they were the best in the business("Woodstock Festival" 1-4). Many Americans idolized and followed their antiwar beliefs and actions. Some of the songs containing antiwar messages
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Politics and music have always had a close relationship. Events like the Vietnam War and and other political movements influence the creation of protest music. This type of music is a significant part of the culture that led to many of the political events in the 1960’s. Both Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer proposed the culture industry and mass marketing concept in their The Dialectic of Enlightenment essay.They argue that one could never escape from the influences of the media.The protest music
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Jimi Hendrix: Reflections of the Man Through the Development of His Albums James McGuire UWC 4‚ Hampton November 4‚ 1996 On November 27‚ 1942‚Jimi Hendrix was born as John Allen Hendrix in Washington at Seattle General Hospital. His childhood was not a privileged one‚ however‚ he did indulge himself in one particular way: Jimi loved to play the guitar. At first he played an old acoustic‚ and later a cheap Silvertone electric‚ which were both strung for a lefty on a right-handed guitar‚ one
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their future baby. After listening to the soothing reggae music of Bob Marley‚ they both simultaneously came up with the name Marley for their new puppy. Bob Marley was the connection between the two couples. They heard his music on the car radio as they drove down Biscayne Boulevard; they heard it as they soaked their first conch fitters. They fell in love with South Florida and with each other‚ and in the background it always seemed Bob Marley. “We fell in love with his music for it was‚ but also for
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Through words‚ how one man can inspire And empower a nation of people (Bob Marley) Introduction The person I have chosen to write about for my leadership individual research paper is Bob Marley. He was born on “February 6‚ 1945 in St Ann‚ Jamaica by the name Robert Nesta Marley” ‚ where he grew up with a fatherless upbringing and great poverty. He later grew up to be world renowned for being a reggae artist and arguably one of the best of all time. Marley is known for such greatest hits as
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During its peak in the 1970s and 1980s‚ famous artists Jimi Hendrix‚ Bob Dylan‚ and Andy Warhol all took pit stops in this grand hotel. Hotel Chelsea was the perfect melting pot of artists‚ musicians‚ and poets that allowed Patti and Robert to catapult their creative insights. If only one person could be chosen that single-handedly
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Holding Two Worlds Together: Bob Fosse Dancers dedicate immense amounts of their time trying to preserve dance history. They are constantly studying the past and educating themselves on the greats‚ till names such as Leonide Massine‚ Rudolf Laban‚ and Pina Bausch become a part of their everyday vocabulary. Although the previously mentioned names may not mean much to the traditional ‘non-dancer’‚ there are dancers and choreographers that have become everyday household names. Bob Fosse is one of those names
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which challenges and inspires them. More than anything else‚ inner journeys are about the challenge of self-reflection. The following texts ‘We All Fall Down’ by Robert Cormier‚ ‘Baghdad Wedding’ by Hassan Abdulrazzak and ‘Things have changed’ by Bob Dylan emphasise how one reflects on the ways an inner journey provides new insight and an understanding of the world and themselves. Robert Cormier’s thriller novel ‘We All Fall Down’ explores the April Fools Day trashing of the Jerome’s house that leaves
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Music’s influence on American History in the 1960s “Entertainment is always a national asset. Invaluable in times of peace‚ it is indispensable in wartime. All those who are working in the entertainment industry are building and maintaining national morale both on the battlefront and on the home front.” Franklin D. Roosevelt 1 The 1960s was one of the most dramatic decades we see throughout American history. The music of the 1960s played an important role socially‚ economically‚ and culturally
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