Essays on Music

There are not a great number of songs that endure the test of time. Music comes and goes with trends, as there is always a need to follow the newest styles. This is especially the case with songs that serve a purpose other than entertainment....

The song Imagine is composed by John Lennon in March 1971 and was originally inspired by a book called Grapefruit written by Yoko Ono. During this time the Vietnam War played a big role in society because a few years earlier, in 1968, the horrible...

Go back in time and fall in love all over again with the nostalgic theater adaptation of the classic Julia Roberts and Richard Gere film, Pretty Woman. Experience the whirlwind love story, similar to the Cinderella concept where a prince charming falls in love with...

We cannot stress enough the importance of music in our daily life. The language of music is one of the most important platforms that allow us to speak a common language which acts as a social narrative. It helps to bridge gaps and unite people....

Abstract Terms like “continual growth” or “progress” cease to exist in an industry if there isn’t any room for “improvement” or “persistent change” as times move ahead, therefore eventually leading to unavoidable losses of sorts. In today’s day and age, individually buying musical content now...

Digital technological modernizations in music entertainment are commonly perceived to be fundamentally disturbing the authority or part of commercial actors inside the music business and their recognized trade practices and benefits. In particular, the internet is widely regarded as having produced a “crisis” for the...

With the huge decline in music revenues across the globe, its key to review the impact that the shift in habits of audience’s preferences for easier accessing music. With the turn of the 21st century introducing the world with portable digital music devices such as...

Before there was Apple Music, Pandora, Spotify and many of the streaming platforms that people have grown to love (or hate), there was a growing usage of platforms like Napster and LimeWire. These platforms allowed people to listen and download music for free, but illegally...

Jazz music can always give audiences surprise about how could the music sound like, because jazz always shows its large flexibility of combining with other styles of music and its high acceptability about new ideas. “In its earliest form, jazz showed an ability to assimilate...

Nowadays, there are a lot of new jazz albums had been published every year, buy different new and old artirsts. But there is one that was rated as one of the greatest album jazz of all time, the one that no one can forget listening...

Before we start talking about jazz and Miles Davis, it’s important to know about the arrival of jazz music. Jazz music isn’t just an influence of African American roots or European roots. In fact, “both blues and jazz have been intertwined since before either style...

John Coltrane and Miles Davis are both very famous jazz artists that experimented with different styles of jazz music and each had their own famous small groups, however Coltrane and Davis differ in their level of boldness and their subsequent legacies. John Coltrane and Miles...

Introduction The definition of an innovator is “a person who introduces new methods, ideas, or products”. Throughout history, jazz has been filled with many exceptional and innovative musicians, but it is hard to find anyone who has had as much of a profound an influence...

Miley Cyrus has been consistently and negatively portrayed in the media since her days at Disney. She has been seen as too reckless or too trashy. Her breakaway from her “Disney image” was a controversial one. Even today, Miley Cyrus’s personal and professional life is...

“What we play, is life.” Armstrong, Louis, and Thomas David Brothers. Louis Armstrong in His Own Words: Selected Writings.  Change is inevitable. We grow and we make better, as we see fit. Without change, there is no innovation, no creativity, and no room for improvement....

The popularity of jazz over the years has been majorly influenced by key figures that changed the landscape of musical progression. Leon Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong were influential cornetists that both created separate styles of playing that would impact generations of musicians to come....

The ’20s were a time of victory, freedom, and the widespread growth of jazz. The first World War had just ended, and it left many Americans feeling free and ready to celebrate. This led to an increase in people attending bars and nightclubs. One of...

 Louis Armstrong is one of the most important jazz musicians and one of the greatest jazz musicians of the world. He is also one of the most influential musicians in jazz music and its history. He had a special voice which by some people was...

Blues is a kind of folk music produced in the early 20th century among African Americans. Among all the forms of folk songs, it is one of the most interesting to musicologists for the following reasons:  Its ‘age’ is not big, and researchers can find...