Essays on Music

The music industry is facing challenges through business perspective, the copyright of music, popular music, live music and the challenges artist face. For instance, online music sharing has prompted legal challenges and industry alliances, while raising significant concerns regarding the industry future. A study in 2000 reported 14 of internet users had downloaded music for...

Music is an important factor in social relationships and is often part of how people define themselves. Lots of people listen to music to make them feel an emotion, whether that be to make them happy, sad, calm, or excited. But can music help your mental health? Can classical music aid your intellectual abilities, emotional...

The poem “Hip Hop” by Mos Def is an accurate representation of the highlights and downfalls to the challenges and embarked journeys that African American’s endure. As an individual from African American descent, I understand the path that a lot of the people in our community must face trying to fit in to a world...

Themes and Issues: Tricia Rose (2008) outlines the important impacts of ‘invisible white consumption’ in commercial hip hop in the 21st century, such as the consumption of harmful stereotypes that are perceived to be actual representations of black people. Rose argues that hip hop allows racial unity and its more about the culture, using music...

Jazz has been widely acknowledged as a major form of musical expression (Hennessey 470). As Jazz became prevalent worldwide, it gave birth to more genres that drew on the cultures of countries and regions that were influenced by its style. In American music, commercial trends rise from time to time, and Jazz serve as its...

The music industry is one of the fastest growing business in the world today. Many artists and song producers have given the industry an entrepreneurial approach where they have committed themselves fully for the industry. In recent years, the sector has been embraced by so many participants because it earns them good returns (Wlömert and...

At the McMater University, there was the music concert performed at the concert hall on Tuesday, dated February 26th 2019. In this case, the concert performance was entitled Zoltan Kalman and Gary Forbes. The time in which the performance was undertaken was at 12:20 pm. The concert was attended by many students within the university...

‘Rap’. A term that has become rather synonymous with dubious morals, immoral/unlawful behavior or plain and simple ostentatiousness. However, the book “The Evolution of Hip-Hop Culture” by Jan Devos changed my perspective towards it. Granted, my previous negative impression of rap music was formed by what I saw and read in the media. I now...

Ragtime as one of the most important music genre in American history was birth in the late nineteenth century and primely populated in the first two decades of the twentieth century. It combines early jazz and the rules of the black rhythm with the Synopation. It prevailed during the prosperous period of the US economy...

Introduction The act of sharing files between two or more computers using a network connection without going through a server is called a peer to peer network (P2P) (Zentner, 2006). P2P networks make it easier and faster for sharing files. The study aims at investigating and researching the use of p2p networks with regards to...