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    Hideo Kikuchi 2016/10/06 French revolution and music Music can encourage people to do anything including a war. I think that the most powerful music is the war song because it makes a soldier tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline. The way to use a music depends on each person, but the history always needs to a music during a war and revolution. This is because music gives us the unity,passion and sometimes someone’s strong message. In this paper

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    Musical revolutions can be defined by three key aspects which are: the venues music was made in, the way the audience listened to the music, and the way the music was disseminated. These are unique in that there is no clear separation between them and at times some of the changes that have been made can impact all three at the same time. The age in which we live in is experiencing all of these aspects to one degree or another. It is difficult for someone my age to understand that we are living in

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    Music in the American Revolution

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    American Revolution, music played an important part of American culture no matter what sector of society. The music of the era served as a social commentary on the political concerns of the period aside from entertainment. The music was expressed through many forms, songs, hymns and varied instrumental musical traditions that reflected the social conditions which created it. Church music was an important source of spiritual inspiration and expression of the patriotic sentiment. The music in the Revolutionary

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    1960s Music Revolution

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    the 1960s changed the music industry forever while also helping move along many cultural changes of the era (MacDonald 14). The Beatles’ introduction into America sparked a revolution in the music industry that has yet to be rivaled by any modern musical group (MacDonald 1). The value of their music, as well as the phenomenon of “Beatlemania,” will live on forever (Millard 7). The social and cultural movements of the 1960s illustrate a change in America’s youth - and the music they listened to - that

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    Music from the 18th century and particularly from the French Revolution is quite beautiful for an era of change. A lot of the time when drastic change happens to a group of people, the overall mood is a negative or downtrodden one, especially in times of violence. But for the French Revolution, the music was somewhat uplifting and positive. The revolutionary leaders of France realized that music can be a great tool for changing the ideals of the people, or at least aid in doing so. There was an uproar

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    Music in the American Revolution. A 3D project by tynell hazel Purpose of music during the American Revolution was, to boost morale, to communicate and to be organized.The music consisted of drums and fifes. The drums were used to signal the army where to go Drums also told the soldiers in camp when to wake up, fetch wood, or food, and when to show up for church. The drummers and Fifers was little boys whose fathers were soldiers or older men who are no longer at fighting age. Music for the army

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    Music has undergone many changes throughout and history and prehistory. These changes were always somehow connected to sociological movements at the time. Rock music evolved mostly out of a need by young people of the fifties to break away from so-cietal norms. America had just come out of the Korean War, and men looked to settle down into a peaceful life. Also just prior this time period, Senator Joseph McCarthy ac-tively encouraged citizens to conform with his infamously false accusations of Commu-nism

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    Revolution of music in the 1960s Essay

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    Revolution of Music Music has continued to change throughout each decade, but the 1960s was the most influential decade in the history of music. Starting in the early 1950s, rock music was first introduced. Major record labels were releasing new “cover songs” which were originally made by black artist, but now by white artist (Rock and Roll). These cover songs changed a few lyrics from the original songs to avoid copyright issues and to also make the song more appropriate for the white listeners

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    takeover music industries, it is now, how we get it, how fast you get it and at what cost you to the consumers for the music. The demand would be a more convent way of listing to your favorite artist and the supply would be for different companies to stream the music to the consumer to keeping it current, this was the birth of Napster (napster2004). The recorded music business has always led the way for creative industries in the digital world. That leadership continues today as the music industry’s

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    musical genre I believe has caused a musical revolution. Rock music is a genre of music that started in the 1940s, but really started to become popular in the 1950s with bands like The Beatles, Bill Haley & His Comets, and The Everly Brothers. "The coming of rock & roll in the mid-Fifties was not merely a musical revolution but a social and generational upheaval of vast and unpredicatable scope. It also represented a major reversal in the business of popular music". (Palmer, 1990) For the second part

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