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    Masters of War

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    1963‚ by a famous singer called Bob Dylan. This song was also released with the other famous song‚ e.g. “Blowin’ in the Wind”. They were come from the same album called “ The Freewheelin’ ”. This was a anti-war song‚ it reflects the singer wanted peace at that time. Bob Dylan is a famous American singer-songwriter‚ musician‚ poet and painter. His lyrics wrote about political social‚ philosophical and literacy influences. In this song‚ there are some lyrics talked about the weapons

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    creating powerful and inspirational songs that were anthems of his time and still remain to promote peace. Dylan’s hit “Blowin’ in the Wind” off the 1963 album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan was one of his best works that raises questions about war‚ peace and freedom while showing off his profound talent of songwriting. The first performance of this song was on April 16‚ 1962 in the midst of the Vietnam War. “Blowin’ in the Wind” was a perfect song for the time. The song raises questions of morality in

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    of recordings of Bob Dylan’s "All along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix offers a vivid case study of what Samuel Floyd characterizes as "the complementary oppositions of African- and European-derived musical processes and events." The song itself draws together elements of ballad and blues traditions; and the two recordings treat this synthesis in very different ways even as they share the common ground of late 1960s rock. Dylan’s is a spare‚ acoustic folk-rock rendition‚ while Hendrix’s

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    to keep writing and writing until we had a full poem and song. We all worked really hard putting the poem and song together. Everyone had different roles to take a part in; so if one person slacked off their job‚ then we were going to be in a bad position. So that everyone had a role‚ we decided to break the job down into three different jobs. One person created the tune‚ one person did the lyrics and making the tune sound right with the song‚ and the other person made sure all the questions were

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    Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter

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    Nobel Prize Laureate Bob Dylan tells the story of wrongfully convicted Rubin “Hurricane” Carter through this poetic song‚ the content and structure of which allows Dylan to analyze the racial profiling and discrimination which defined this time period‚ and affected the African-American race as a whole. Dylan’s partial narrative of this poem plays a crucial role in fully understanding the events that occurred. The narrative is obviously a defense of the fighter Rubin Carter‚ shown through the

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    try one of these off-beat trips. While there’s little chance any of them will ever make it into mainstream tourism‚ I’m willing to bet they’ll give you the best travel story most people will have heard in a while. Protest tourism‚ USA The closest most tourists usually get to protests is not being able to get where they’re going due to transport strikes. And while sitting stranded in an airport isn’t the best way to empathise with protesting workers‚ there are a growing number of travellers who are

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    Evolution of Folk Music

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    Anglo-American Folk Music occurred during the time that the original thirteen colonies were being created. It got its start from what was called Psalmody which is the rendering of the 150 psalms of the Old Testament; however they were present in the form of songs. Psalmody is one of the oldest traditions of western music. Psalm tunes were carried over from the old world through the found of the colonies by the English and Dutch. They were often kept in a psalter which is a book that contained psalm tunes

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    Pete Seeger

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    Although‚ his parents had an interest mainly in classical music‚ at the age of sixteen in 1935‚ Pete managed to discover that his true passion was for folk music or as he described “old fashioned five string banjo‚ rippling out a rhythm to one fascinating song after another” . He truly believed that this type of music was more powerful and honest in comparison to what was popular at the time. Music was everything to Pete. He started with playing the Banjo and eventually was given the opportunity to assist

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    Missile Crisis developed a few weeks after Dylan began performing it These popular songs ("Blowin’ in the Wind"‚ "A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall") marked a new direction in songwriting‚ blending a stream-of-consciousness‚ imagist-lyrical attack with traditional folk form‚ something Bob Dylan was renowned for. These labelled ‘protest songs’ became anthems for the American civil-right anti-war movements. His songs‚ and lyrics‚ have incorporated various political‚ social‚ and philosophical influences

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    Songs and poems have a lot in common. They both must have a well-developed thought of what the author want to get a crossed. Some of the authors for poems will also add music to the poem to add more emotion to the poem. This is how some artists will come up with song ideas for a new song. If you take away the background music from a song the lyrics will more than likely be a poem or poem like such as a ballad. Therefore‚ poems and songs have a lot in common and will work together in multiple ways

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