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Censoring Rap Music Because Freedom of Speech Has Gone Too Far

audiences will play only heavily censored versions of rap songs. The U.S. government has also actively sought to censor rap music...

Was the Introduction of the Digital Economy Act 2010 Wise Legislation?

the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, it was also sponsored by the minister for Culture, Media and Sport; Be...

Analysis of Merriam's Preface

were the focus of their analyses (Merriam "Definitions" 193). Furthermore, as Jaap Kunst pointed out in 1950 text, musicology "doe...

Dance Music in Musical History

This research paper briefly describes the dance music within the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods. Two pages in length, ...

Music and the Sexualization of Women

The number and diversity of those involved in the debate surrounding the sexualization of women is overwhelming. Research abounds...

The Djembe, An Overview

This research paper presents an extensive overview of the djembe, which is a drum that originated in West Africa. The paper offers...

Musical Systems: Scales, Maqamat, and Ragas

This research paper offers a brief overview of scales, maqamat, and ragas, which derive from Western Arabic and Indian music respe...

Black Films and Hip Hop Music Videos: Race Representation

is a mixed bag. In films that parody the past like Undercover Brother and in music videos, the most watched genre of film today by...

Listening to Music

stand country" or "What? you mean you like opera?" This paper is a reaction to five pieces of music, at least one of each from the...

Use of Cinematography in The Truman Show

lighting, color, camera angle, types of shots, music and set design, to underscore the theme of self-determination and individual...

Reshaping Everyday Life/Jack Larkin

football matches" and the fact that Mr. Bleaney apparently liked betting on the away games in football pools (Day 9). As this in...

Jazz as Modernism

Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...

A Critique on the October, 2008 Ringtone Decision

to royalties for the songs that are used as ringtones. In early October of 2008, the Copyright Royalty Board decided to freeze the...

Music Sharing is Not Unethical

management, as well as the creation and distribution of their CDs. Now, with the Internet, widespread ownership of CD burners and ...

Blues and James Baldwin’s Short Story “Sonny’s Blues”

their late mother, who was the familys support system. Of her, the narrator would recall, "I always see her wearing pale blue" (B...

Music Industry Decision Making

leads both the US and Europe, and by a wide margin (Cieslak, 2007). As digital forms continue to evolve, if CD sales contin...

Children’s Perceptions of Adults

is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...

The Divergence of Country and Folk Music? ?

music brought to the country by Anglo-Celtic immigrants (Malone, 1968, 1). This music was tremendously influenced, however, by Af...

A Look at Notre Dame Organum

is largely due to two composers by the names of Perotin and Leonin (Hoppin, 1978, 217). Interestingly, there is little information...

The Internet as Distribution Medium for Music

space and working capital, they are limited to what they can sell by the available space and the amount of capital that can be tie...

Questions on Media, Power and Culture

This paper covers three issues, which pertain to music piracy, radio and analysis of a media image on drunk driving. Five pages in...

The Circumstances Necessary for a Band or Musical Artist to Succeed

This 5 page paper discusses the conditions that are necessary for a band or music artist to succeed. There are 10 sources listed i...

Cultural Identities and Music

In twelve pages cultural identities and music are considered in terms of the interaction between the two and which influences the ...

Evolution of Black Music Hybrids

combine that indifference, with separatism or racism, no wonder the African American share of performances or broadcasts is consid...

Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus

result blurs the lines of what is real or not but the book makes it clear that for Mingus, at the moment of his telling it, it was...

Internet and Digital Music Marketing

In ten pages the evolution of digital music and the internet are discussed from a marketing perspective with Napster's demise amon...

Postmodern Music

In five pages Farmclub and Napster are featured in a consideration of technology's impact upon contemporary music. Four sources a...

Rhythm and Blues of the Nineties and Hip Hop's Influence

In seven pages this paper discusses how 1990s' rhythm and blues music has been socially influenced by hip hop. Six sources are ci...

Romantic Art and English Painter J.M.W. Turner

In ten pages this nineteenth century artist's life and art are the focus of this report with his music in paint Romanticism the pr...

US Punk Music

The origins and development of America's punk music and its various incarnations are discussed in 10 pages. Three sources are cit...