Essays on Music Industry

Amidst their growing popularity and the crazed hysteria by adoring fans, the Beatles released their third album, A Hard Day’s Night on July 10, 1964. The commemorated opening chord of the album, accentuated by George Harrison’s new Rickenbacker 12-string guitar, sets a powerful opening sequence...

Introduction In a career span of ten years (1960-1970), The Beatles successfully emerged in influencing and changing the music of the world we live in today. They were pioneers in building the bridge between post production and live recorded music whilst blooming with creative, artistic,...

Pop Music is a distinguished genre of music that uses elements from other styles such as dance, urban, Latin, rock and country. Originally derived from Rock and Roll in the Western world around 1950’s, it is the largest genre of consumed music today and is...

Boy groups across the globe become successful in their own countries, but very few of them become successful worldwide. BTS and One Direction are prime examples of successful boy groups. Neither are from the US, but they have succeeded in becoming well known in the...

On March 1st, 1994, a young Pattie Mallet gave birth to Justin Drew Bieber. As a young, 17-year-old mother, Pattie was already in over her head. Little did she know that baby she had just given birth to would become one of the biggest sensations...

Francis Albert Sinatra is known as one of the best 40’s and 50’s singers of all time. Sinatra was a musician and actor. He impacted many lives during this time. However, Sinatra had many scandals in his career. Everybody makes mistakes but that is not...

Frank Sinatra is known as one of the greatest singers and performers of all time from the 40’s to his death in 1998, though his music and spirit still lives strongly within culture today. Michael Buble has commonly been compared to Sinatra, but I would...

Before Facebook took over the internet and stole netizen’s social lives, there was one social networking site that permeated the early years of the era of social media: MySpace. Somehow, it still exists today despite the three giants of social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram)...

Steveland Judkins Morris, more commonly known as Stevie Wonder, to this day remains one of the most talented and innovative people to have made their mark upon the music industry. Wonder grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, and was signed to Motown Records in 1961 at...

Gender roles are what society believes are acceptable actions or beliefs for a person to have based on their gender. There are gender roles in every community everywhere in the world. For example, it is socially acceptable for women to wear skirts and dresses but...

One of the simplest songs created by Ralph Ralph Vaughan Williams|composer} is Riders to the ocean. Riders to the ocean is first performed in Nursing opera written in one act, with music composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. He wrote his own playscript for the opera...

Often in a good movie, people will look first at the directors and writers, and then the actors. At the Academy Awards, all spotlights are concentrated on the best movie and the best actor/actress. Nobody mentions the importance of soundtracks but in a good movie,...

Ghazal Ghazal started from tenth century Persian refrain. Ghazals are for the most part articulation of adoration, detachment and dejection. It’s far a beautiful articulation of each the agony of detachment of the preferred and the magnificence of adoration not withstanding that hurt. It is...

The first music video that I would like to examine is Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want To Have Fun”. The track was first written and recorded by Robert Hazard in 1979. This was Lauper’s first significant single as a solo artist and was the lead...

I have chosen to base my personal study on psychedelic art and music during the 60s and 70s because I am extremely passionate about the art that came out of this time period, in the form of audio and visual work. I have grown up...

The base of my research is going to be the investigation of the history of game sounds / music on one side and the investigation of the history of gaming consoles on the other since the two have always been in a tight connection. After...

Company Overview Live Nation Entertainment is a concert promoting company and is the largest live entertainment company in the world. They do face competition from other promoters and entertainment companies such as AEG, but this hardly has any effect on their popularity. Live Nation has...

In every walks of life, we see visual communication. But knowingly or unknowingly it is taken for granted. For understanding what visual communication is, one need not to visit art galleries or read books pertaining to it. We need only to observe the things existing...

It may only be rock and roll, but investors love it. During the last few days of May 2007, whilst stock markets all around the world were suffering from a mild attack of the jitters, two international auction houses, Christies and Bonhams, achieved record prices...

Reading Music: Print versus Screens I’m sure everyone has seen the comic strip theme about the younger generation forgetting how physical books work. Technology users laugh it off and think it’s the old people turning the tables because they don’t know how technology works and...

We always wonder why bad things happen, maybe the answer is right in front of us but we’re just too blind or na?ve to see it. Most would like to think that all people know the difference between right and wrong. The problem is we...

Introduction New research charting broad shifts in changing personal music tastes during our lifetimes finds that – while it’s naturally linked to personality and experience – there are common music genre trends associated with key stages in a human life. The increase in music usage...

Everyone has heard the terms the Fab Four, the British Invasion, or Beatlemania. All these terms are used when speaking about The Beatles. The Beatles were known worldwide for their musical talent. They had 41 albums that were released from 1961 (My Bonnie/ The Saints)...

What is music? When looking for the definition of music you’ll stumble across a lot of different definitions, everyone has their own definition of what music is to them. A better question to ask probably would’ve been what is the meaning to be found in...

My career goal is to have a role, or even multiple roles, in some aspect in music technology or audio production. Many factors need consideration for this career path in particular since there are a few fields in the creative industries that I could enter...

In “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff, he discusses his view on intellectualism by describing it through the lens of a sports fanatic, arguing that intellectualism is found in other places rather than only in academics. He goes on to explain that through sports such as...

South Korea is one of the most named countries at the moment either because of its political news of agreements with its complicated neighbors, its great advance in technology or, most importantly, the impact that music has of that country globally. In these times it...

What is K-pop? To put it simply, it’s South Korean Pop music. The majority of K-pop artists consist of boy groups and girl groups, (similar to NSYNC and Destiny’s Child) followed by solo artists, bands, duo groups, etc. of which they are called “Idols”. K-pop...

The Korean Wave, which they called Hallyu is an idea that South Korea’s culture and popular cultures such as TV dramas and movies become a major global cultural. And the most important Hallyu is K-pop, which means Korean Pop music. K-pop is becoming one of...

On Sunday, February 17, 2019, I attended the “Endings” classical music concert performed by the Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale. This concert took place at the Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center Rea-Greathouse Recital Hall. The amount of time I spent at the concert was about an...