Essays on Country Music
Style 1 Pop Genres like rock and roll influenced pops inception. Artists such as The Beatles and Elvis transformed Rock and Roll into Pop Music. They did this in the beginning of the 60s to the beginning of the 70s. ‘Many cultural movements of the 1960s were assisted or inspired by the Beatles’ One of...
The origin of country music can date all the way back to the 1920’s. Country music has since evolved immensely. And a lot of that change and evolution came during the 1960s and the 1970’s. In the 1960’s, country music saw the rise of Loretta Lynn. She was one of the first female country artists...
Music has the potential to be diverse because of its different genres, different lyrics, and different sounds. The different ways each genre can make a person feel is what may make music special. A genre that can genuinely provide these factors and more, a genre that sparks originality, a genre that is just plain pleasant...
On Monday the 14th, I watched “I Can’t Stop Loving You” which is episode 4 in the Country Music Documentary by Ken Burns. It included the many of the careers that began between 1953 – 1963 including the stories of The Everly Brothers, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Brenda Lee,...
The piece of music that I chose is a hymn titled “The Old Rugged Cross”, composed by evangelist, George Bennard in Michigan in 1912. Originally performed by Bennard himself, “The old Rugged Cross” became a staple in services pertaining to the Revival of Jesus Christ. In the attached rendition, country music artist, Alan Jackson, performs...
