Live your life

When making “Vivir Mi Vida” Anthony knew he wanted to make a song that is positive and pays homage to life. The song title in English translates to “Live My Life” which shows that Anthony wants to send an uplifting message while also giving the song a salsa twist so that people can dance to it while…

How Punk Rock Influenced Society

Punk Rock isn’t your average type of Rock an Roll. This music is cultivated from the sounds of various instruments such as drums, guitars, bass’s and vocals. This music was created to express emotions of the struggles of different societies over a course of time. These…

The Sex Pistols and the British Punk Movement: Bare-Bones Music for Bare-Bones People

Max Roach: A Civil Rights Hero

Music is used as a tool to create social change. Jazz music during the 1960’s has strong ties to the Civil Rights movement, a ground breaking moment in history. Max Roach’s Driva’ Man embodied the fight for equal rights drawing upon representations of slavery with the Jazz…

Punk: Roots In Reggae

Reggae and Punk both arose out of their immediate surroundings of economic depression and social inequality in the late 1960’s and 1970’s and is reflected in its sound. Mainly traditional African traits are found in Reggae but Punk adopted some of these traits and added its own European…

Making Hit Music in Jail : Vybz Kartel Edition

In the musical island of Jamaica dancehall music is primarily one of the popular genres to date. Most of the people enjoy this music because it gets people dancing thru the fast pace rhythm and beats. Vybz Kartel also known as Adidja Palmer is the…

American Music is African

Volume 2 Number 3: African Music in the United States

And so we continue our second year of African Music in the New World!

The third issue of our second year is all about US.

Origins of Thrash Metal

Rock-and-roll music, especially a genre like thrash metal reflected the alienation of the post-baby-boom generation. The troubled youth of generation X are the ones who created angry rock, and used the music as there way of dealing with their problems. Thrash metal had many influences…

How Phish Became Phish

The band Phish has a story to their fame. They started as an unknown band without a name in the cafeteria of the University of Vermont and…