For this final blog post, I will be looking at Jay’s presentation on ’00s Country featuring Alan Jackson’s Drive. I really enjoyed his presentation even though I’m not really into country music (Quite the understatement really, I avoid it whenever possible). The music video that…
I think for this blog post, I would like to talk about T.J.’s presentation about ’00s Prog Rock with the song Octavarium by Dream Theater. I have heard of Dream Theater before and listened to one or two of their songs, so I wasn’t completely…
Party Metal. I really don’t know many artists like Andrew W.K., so I think that makes this genre that much more difficult to explain with so few examples. I suppose the idea of party metal is not too hard to grasp… High energy, fast paced,…
For the 1980s, there certainly was no shortage of megastars. I would like to focus on Madonna though, as I think that she has a very unique image for the time period. In class we focused on her music video Like a Prayer and when…
We have ventured into the 1970s and we’ve seen how popular music have changed over the decades prior. Something that I think is interesting is seeing the popularity of country and punk for the time period we are looking at. The reason that I find…
Starting with the question at hand, I think that it would probably be considered a good thing that many popular bands began experimenting more with their sound. Although, yes, Rock & Roll has its start rooted in simplicity, good things can come out of the…
We have now begun talking about the 1960s and the large effect that folk music had on the population. I think in my opinion, folk music borrows some parts of country music. The acoustic guitar with a sometimes “twang” type feel reminds me of some…
In class we’ve talked about Elvis Presley and the large impact he has had on pop music. In my opinion from what we have heard in class, Elvis just seemed a bit more bold compared to other artists of the time. When I say bold,…
Although this is only my first post for the class, I feel that we have discussed many interesting areas of popular music before the year 1945. I think that it is quite interesting that African Americans played such an important and vital role in many…