Select one essay title from below and write a 1,000 words ...
Select one essay title from below and write a 1,000 words essays on it. The essay must be submitted to the SILS essay box with a green cover sheet no later than Friday, 28th, January, 2011.
1. How might the blues and rock music be different if slavery had never existed and African Americans had been welcomed immigrants in the United States?
2. Both blues and country lyrics can express downheartedness and sadness. What are some differences in the kinds of expression between the two styles, and what are some reasons for the differences?
3. In what ways were the music and images of rock’n roll performers rebellious for their time?
4. What would rock musicians have to do to maintain their rebellious reputations today?
5. Did the race of performers affect their popularity, or did race matter to most fans?
6. In what various ways did soul music and its performers affect the civil rights movement?
7. Civil Rights leaders tended to admire James Brown much more than other great soul or Motown artists. What are some of the likely reasons for that?
8. What was it about the American social, political and musical situations in the early sixties that made the country so ready for invasion by the British bands? Were the Beatles and the Rolling so great that they could have taken over the U.S. charts any time, or was it mostly a case of good timing that they became so popular so quickly?
9. During the late sixties, some people said that the British saved rock and roll. If true, what did they save it from?
10. Is folk music at its best when expressing controversy and hard times, or is it music for all time?
11. Why were young adults listening to Bob Dylan instead of pop or soul music during the early sixties?
12. Why were traditional folk musicians offended when Dylan began to use amplified instruments?
13. Does the sound of music or the meaning of song lyrics in heavy metal rock cause listeners to do thing they would not otherwise do?
14. To what degree was glitter an expression of homosexuality, and to what degree was it merely rebellion against those who were easily offended by it?
15. Might glitter have reflected or promoted the gay rights movement?
16. Reggae is music of politically and socially oppressed people in Jamaica. Is the international popularity of reggae most likely to be based on its identity with those people, or is it popular more because it is good dance music?
17. Punk is angry music, and it is the most effective when the anger is directed at some particular issue, person, or practice. Could a positive message, a religious one, for example, be delivered in a punk style and be taken seriously?
18. Rap music often tends to have a racial identity. To what degree does that reject the idea of racial integration as an ideal?
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