What is heavy metal music in today's society? Heavy metal music is an affirmation of the power inherent in nature and its amoral and anti-social aspects. Through viewing the aspects of what society fears, death, disease, horror, terror and war. It brings to light that which society suppresses in an attempt to find a truth beyond social mechanisms. The sound of metal is more than just lyrics that affirm this tendency. Metal songs are created without a major or minor harmony, which leaves only rhythm and melody. This is perfect for making explosive ...
When was brought to Chicago it became a more powerful, hard-edged type of music, but kept its original form. This consisted of the two basic kinds of traditional blues: the Slow Blues and the Fast Blues. The names do not define the tempo of the two, because both can be played either way. The Slow Blues is the most common kind of Blues and is the c...
The influence of Mexican culture in the United States has, since the onset of the twentieth century, grown rapidly. The socioeconomic and political consequences that followed Mexico's independence from Spain and the US annexation of the Southwest, including California and Texas, created a distinct dynamic between historically settled Mexicans in th...
They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. That certainly appears to be true for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, whose members have had more lives than a bagful of cats and whose music has withstood the fickle vagaries of the '90s. Putting their own twist on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Crashing, the band is ending a four-year hiatus and turne...
was a generation of beat, down wanderers, who traveled the continent trying to find the answer to why we are here and what here is. Some of the founders, of this movement were Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, who then was under the name of William Lee, and Allen Ginsberg. The Beats rejected the conventional American life style. As survivors...
Bob Marley once said, "I'm a man of God and me come to do God's work.' Bob Marley brought reggae to a broad audience and devoted his work to spread a message of peace, unity and love. Bob Marley made an attempt to make blacks recognized. He became an important figure for the Afro-race. In the song 'Buffalo Soldier' the author calls its audience to...