Upon first listening the Jolly Boys cover of Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab” you immediately recognize the hook of the infamous song. After listening to it for a few times you start to realize what great things the Jolly Boys and mento music bring to this composition. Before taking this class I couldn’t tell the difference between ska, reggae or mento music. The ease of the lead singer Albert Minott , and his style of singing and the cadence of his voice, hints towards the evolution that would eventually be named ska music .The video opens with the five member band playing the maracas, banjo, congo drums, the guitar and the murumba box.
In the composition and in the video you see the mixture of both African and
European instruments and styles, and
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When Amy Winehouse is singing “Rehab” you can hear the angst in her voice is defiant. The Jolly Boys take on the song is very relaxed and easy going, when the sing “They tried to make me go to rehab” it is not in defiance. The feeling that I get from the song is that a day on the beach in Jamaica will make everything “irie”. I could also hear a lot of what would eventually become the future of reggae music and the influences I now hear in contemporary Jamaican music. I truly enjoyed watching the Jolly Boys reintroduce mento music into popular music by choosing a song like “Rehab”. I also enjoyed seeing how the murumba box was being used in the composition. Listening to the song I can also hear the relaxed vibe of ska music and
“don’t worry “ vibe of the song. In the video they are playing on a stage to one woman
sitting down in the audience. I looked at this as foreshadowing to the relevance of mento music to contemporary listeners. When the young woman gets up and starts to dance to the music, it defiantly states that if you listen to how cool this music is, you would like it also. I too, not only think that the Jolly Boys are very cool and very much relevant
In the beginning of the scene Nuke is dancing with all of the women in
While listening to album the lyrics are mostly about women, drugs, rebelling against parents and partying. The sound of the album from song to song is very...
Reprise Records, a Time Warner Company. Produced by Dan Was. Songs: Too Little Too Late, Never Do Anything, Pinch Me, Go Home, Falling For The First Time, Conventioneers, Sell Sell Sell, The Humor Of The Situation, Baby Seat, Off The Hook, Helicopters, Tonight Is The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel.
would expect as it sounds like , its of a young girl singing but it is
Although there is a variety of music that could be examined to trace its evolution through time, there is one genre in particular that is quite interesting to examine. Though it differs from other types of music, it will be looked at in conjunction with Reggae music as they have similar ties. Reggae music is quite prominent today in the United States, parts of Africa, and of course Jamaica. Reggae is notoriously known for its most influential artist Bob Marley, and it is not unusual for one to have heard a few, if not many of his songs. Reggae’s popularity is steadily increasing and is doing so through both expansions of the music as well as increasing knowledge on the genre.
... good that it’ll take her to another place, an amazing place. The album comes to an end with the final track “Lady in My Life”. This track is saying that there is nothing that would be nothing that can come between them and that she would be loved more each day and that she will be the “Lady in My Life”.
Reggae The Story Of Jamaican Music BBC Documentary. vols., 2012. Online. Internet. 22 Mar. 2014. . Available: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv1Iy26qlLk&feature=youtube_gdata_player.
discovered in the early 90’s as a more experimental type of music that was similar to other
The singer talks about a man who wants to be involved with her romantically. However, she is only interested in friendship and wants to do more conventionally masculine activities with the man who is romantically pursuing her. She talks about wanting to play in the dirt, getting into fights, and drinking till the early morning which actions that are typically associated with men. The lyrics of this song layout strict gender binaries as to what “bros” do. The key part of the song that addresses the contradiction of biological determinism and preforming gender arrives when the lead singer states, “I may have girly parts, but I have a boys heart”. The singer is addressing the fact that other she was born female her actions and behaviors are not determined by the gender she was assigned to because of her biological sex. This theme corresponds to the music video by which the female artists have visibly apparent underarm hair, displaying their defiance to what is expected of females by not preforming their gender and engaging in altering their secondary sex characteristics through hair
“How Musical is Man?” was published in 1974. This book was written by John Blacking, a musician turned social anthropologist. His goal in writing this ethnography, and several other papers during this same time period, was to compare the experience of music-making that takes place within different cultures and societies throughout the world. In this book, he discusses and describes the musicology of the Venda people in South Africa. Though he does go to Africa to research and learn about the Venda people and their music, he specifically states that his book is “not a scholarly study of human musicality” (ix), but rather it is a summary (written from his point of view), which is both expressive and entertaining, of several different issues and ideas that he has seemingly been contemplating for some time.
Throughout the semester, various styles of music and the aspects of culture associated with these styles have been analyzed. Musical elements such as dynamics, texture, form, timbre, melody, instruments, etc., have been used to thoroughly explore each kind of music from different areas of the world, with an emphasis in music from Africa, India and Indonesia. These aspects of music go far beyond just music itself. Culture also plays a huge role in music and the accompanying musical elements. Each country and culture has a different style and distinctiveness that add to what makes the music of that certain culture unique. Music in Africa may differ dramatically from music in Indonesia or India not only due to those certain elements but also due to how it is interpreted by people and what it represents for those people. In addition to this, what one may consider music in one culture may not be music to another. These differences have been made apparent in the several demonstrations that we have been exposed to in class.
Throughout the song the tone changes from a disappointed and unsatisfied feeling until it progresses into a hopeful and maturing tone. This transformation of tone follows the story almost perfectly and allows the reader to feel a connection to the transformation of the protagonist. This transformation from “expecting the world” (line 1) to realising that some things must happen for others to come into motion “the sun must set to rise” (line 24) is especially impactful and emotional when paired with the lines “ This could be para-para-paradise, para-para-paradise” that are repeated to show her newly established happiness and maturity. Ultimately, this progression from disappointed
taste of music, people still like to listen to it and enjoy it. My own personal experiences and attitudes to music have stemmed from my own life and relationships.
When Taylor Swift is determined to do something, the girl really does know how to
You can just see in the lyrics that this man really cares for someone and would do anything to keep her around. The love is so happy and energetic it makes you what to listen to it over and over.