Essays on Music

Lately, conversation encompassing rap music has been in the front line of the American media. From the buildup of the East Coast-West Coast competition that shadowed the homicides of rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. to the disparagement of current music in the wake of school shootings in Littleton, Colorado,…

Hip-hop culture emerged as an urban shockwave in the late 1970s from the Bronx, New York, as a result of global instability that allegedly ignored black Americans and Latinos. Although the Bronx was instrumental in the development of Hip Hop, it continues to be an integral part of black American…

George Balanchine was born in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg. George is widely regarded as the ballet world’s first contemporary choreographer. George was admitted into the Ballet unit of the prestigious Imperial Theater School in Saint Petersburg when he was nine years old (Jordan, Stephanie, p.147). George Balanchine graduated…

The 1920s was an adventurous and enjoyable time full of cultural and fashion transformations thanks to music, particularly jazz music. Undoubtedly, this is a time whose events cannot melt away in the history of America. This was the age of flappers, the 1920s generation of women credited to bobbed hair,…

Claude Debussy, a prominent French composer who was one of the most protuberant figure that was involved in the late 19th and 20th century impressionist music and Gustav Mahler who was an Austrian romantic composer and served as a link amid the modernism of the earlier 19th and 20th century…

The first section of Dante Alighieri’s poetry is the Inferno, a divine comedy that chronicles Dante’s path to God (Barolini 35). It is divided into three sections: the inferno (Hell), the Purgatorio (Purgatory), and the Paradiso (Paradise). The poem starts in the year 1300, on Good Friday evening. Dante is…

When reflecting on his mother, Michael Jackson said, it’s great to have my mother. She is perfection to me. This assertion is fitting when you know that your mother is one of the only people you’re going to meet who doesn’t criticize your character and support you the way you…

The Hunger Games is a novel written by Suzanne Collins that takes place in the future in a place called Panem after the annihilation of North America. According to Collins, the rich capital is responsible for 12 underprivileged neighborhoods. It had 13 districts, but one was destroyed due to revolt….

Lady Gaga is an internationally known pop singer, songwriter, and actor. Born This Way, one of her best-selling and most successful albums, received mixed feedback and criticism upon its initial publication. Walt Whitman, on the other hand, was a poet and writer of the 1800s who produced many fictitious works…

Stuart Davis is one among America’s first modern artist and considered by many the father of the popular culture . He began his work with the Ashcan school before shortly following the Europeans modernism. Davis had tons of determination to convey something from the American form of government and blend…

He saw the best of me while everyone else could see the worst in me. May I hear one more time, one more time? I said he saw the best in me, when everyone else could see the worst in me. I wish I had a witness tonight, the only…

Sita Sings the Blues is a modern Ramayana recapping that goes through many modes of animation, descending the story through Sita’s triste personality, rescued, rejected and exiled by her husband, Rama. Nina’s own comical account of the breaking-up of her marriage is contrasting with Sita’s sad story. Nina uses the…