Essays on Music

The film “Footprint: Where the Towers Stood” by Sara Newens is a short documentary submitted to The New York Times Op-Docs series. Op-Docs is a forum created by The New York Times editorial department where artists submit short opinionated documentaries. In this film, Newens covers activities at the site of...

The Evolution of American Protest Music The American protest music has historical underpinnings and characterized the historical transition of the nation from one era to another. The analysis of the use of rhetoric from the time of Yankee Doodle to Kendrick Lamar shows how the revolution and social change undertones embedded...

Everyone has a wake-up call Everyone has a wake-up call that can be triggered by an event, a situation, a song or a person. "That Power" song by Childish Gambino means a great deal to me. The actual song does not mean an awful lot-even though I love it very much-but...

When the African, as slaves, were introduced to the Caribbean island of Haiti, the carried among them their cultural and ritual traditions. Dances and songs from various regions of Africa, as well as from the diverse ethnic groups, crossed paths and blended to create a new uniquely Haitian expression. Some...

The video I liked most is Notget VR which provides a spectacular view of a goddess (Björk) dancing in a snowy environment. In Notget VR, the developers made Björk appear in a motion-capture performance whereby the dark, ominous atmosphere dissolves as the dancer turns into a luminous body that is...

The Soundsuit Series and its Challenge to Western Aesthetics The series of Nick Cave's Soundsuit utilizes a series of performance as well as found mediums in order to challenge the philosophical assumptions of the western society concerning the choices that are seen to be complicated and consequently valuable. The art by...

The Set Design The two videos “Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus – Don Giovanni” and “DON GIOVANNI Commendatore” have the same set. The videos are similar because they are based on a scene where the Commandant’s statue appears and states that he has come for dinner. The scene takes place in the dining...

This paper aims to analyze and discuss baroque performance entitled Vivaldi Winter 1 er Movement by Nigel Kennedy- written by Vivaldi for an all poor girl performance group that had to perform in live events to be married off. The author reacts to Nigel s performance and provides an opinion...

During the dance course, I learned several aspects of dance.  The first classes led to the understanding that indeed that dance is an art that takes into account various aspects such as coordination and alignment of the body. Dance entails choreography in which a dancer plans and arranges the dance...

Culture is an important aspect of identifying a community. More so, culture is the basic aspect which creates a sense of belonging in any society. Culture provides the beauty of diversity which beautifies essence of heritage awareness. Cultural awareness forms the basic foundation upon which the norms and practices of...

In the Genesis account of creation Where God creates everything in the world out of nothing, the power of speech is clearly demonstrated. Since speech originates from one's conception of reality, one should never undervalue the mouth as an instrument in reality creation. Depending on one's status in society, it has...

Many will assert that music transcends differences and unites people, but the four readings that will be examined in this paper will challenge that notion by arguing that music is more political than it may first appear to be. In reality, music can be a useful tool for starting conversations...