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sonically excellent. Since the performance was by the Afro-Caribbean ensemble, the genres of the pieces played were Afro-Beat, Afro-Funk, jazz, and funk. There were a number of instruments included in the ensemble. The chordophones included bass and acoustic guitars, and an oud. There were several aerophones, including two saxophones, a tuba, a trumpet, a clarinet, and a trombone. Membranophones

Introduction Punk-rock trio from Berkley, Green Day is on the music scene for a whole eternity. On the radio and other platforms we heard the hits innumerable times that have become anthems of modern punk-rock, such as the “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, “American Idiot”, “21 Guns”, “Good Riddance” and “Basket Case”. Over time, Green Day became an icon of the punk-rock genre, which many listeners like. Everything started more than twenty years ago, in 1987, when 15-years-old Billie Joe Armstrong and

Playing the guitar in ways never seen before, Clapton was hailed as a god, and the genre of blues was re-instated into the music industry. Clapton then went on to form the first ‘super group’. In 1966, Cream were formed, and by combining Clapton’s bluesy styles with

Born in 1951 in a Romanian home, Stefan Balcescu’s early life was spent in and around the Atlanta Metro Area. As he matured, his love for art became ever more present and he said so himself, he married music in a figurative sense, but perhaps in a literal way as well. I conversed with Stefan Balcescu, a Romanian musician born and raised in Atlanta, and he still resides there today. He is a family friend, Stefan and my mother worked at the same middle school when I lived in Atlanta and after knowing

his favorite band. It does not matter where he stands, screams from the fans around him fill his ears over the sound of the loud music. Everyone in the crowd is pushing and shoving one another to the beat of the music and the strums of the electric guitar. Mark has never experienced anything like this concert before but as the frontman of the band sings, there is nowhere he would rather be. Throughout the decades, fans get to experience different types of concerts and they can thank all the major icons

Introduction A PA system that is installed correctly and operates at its optimum level will allow a sound signal to travel from one or more microphones to a mixing console. At the mixing console all signals will be mixed together in the right balance and levels and sent out to an amplifier. The signals are then converted into much larger signals and sent to the speakers creating sound waves for the audience to hear. (Fry, 2005) The aim of this report is to analyse by way of reference books

Ever long for the good ol’ days of music? If so, Postmodern Jukebox (PMJ) can take you back to whenever those glory days might have been. Imagined and created by Scott Bradlee, a trained jazz pianist, PMJ takes popular music from today or the recent past and remakes it in all kinds of vintage genres, from 30’s jazz, to Motown, to bluegrass hoedown. The group consists of around forty artists, many of whom are classically trained, that put out weekly videos featuring any various combination of them

Cy Ray Student ID #: 7064 9104 GSI: Kristen Clough Sec. 8, Tuesdays 1-2pm Pop Song Analysis of Gorillaz, “Feel Good Inc” (2005) Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett stumbled upon the concept of Gorillaz while they were watching MTV in their apartment; the duo found themselves growing weary of the formulaic, commercialized, uncreative, and empty format of the pop music that they were listening to. In the words of Albarn and Hewlett, “if you watch MTV for too long, it's a bit like hell - there's nothing

Throughout this semester in Comparative Religions I have learned about many different religions and how they used to and are now practiced. Before taking this class I had general knowledge about all the religions we learned about but knew the most about Christianity. From this class and going on the field trips I gained a larger understanding of the world's major religions. The two religions I had the chance to understand more were Evangelical Christian and Hinduism. I am fortunate to have gotten

bleak lives. This is exemplified in Figure 1. . Though the basics of rock music were captured from the complex and rhythmic fashion blacks used (psb.org, 2004), it involves a combination of white instruments and innovations such as the electric guitar and bass in order to magnify the music, which shows the diffusion of rock from Southern US to the whole of the American continent. . Also, through the use of the radio, as it was emerging as a normalised communication technology within homes, the genre