When thinking of time travel in music, the first song to come to mind is usually Black Sabbath’s Iron Man. The song peaked at no. 52 in the U.S. in 1972, which was exceptional for the band, whose style of acid rock was not particularly popular in mainstream music. It follows the story of a disgraced time traveler, who ultimately destroys the people he was sent forward to save after becoming altered in a magnetic storm. Lead Zeppelin’s Kashmir, while equally popular, discusses the existentialism of man as his conscious mind drifts into a Nirvana-esque omnipotence of time and space. Time by Led Zeppelin is less about actual time travel, but rather the way that time slips away from man as he grows older. (“And you are young and life is long and …show more content…
(“But I'm just a traveler in time / Trying so hard to pay for my crime,” … “I've tried for so long to find / Some way of helping mankind,”) As the narrator desperately tries to find a way home, he recounts the hardships of being trapped in unspecified destinations in time, with no clue as to when his ‘punishment’ will come to an end.
Songs on Aretha Franklin’s second disc of The Atlantic Recordings make allusions to time, although not necessarily time travel. Instead, Franklin brings up the distortion and contrast of time, such as in My Song, in which she sings “Now you're gone and hours seem like years,”. In Today I Sing the Blues, Franklin’s lyrics read “We were lovers last night, honey
But I'm alone again today,” and “Woah yesterday, this time I sang a love
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Beginning in 1877 with the invention of the phonograph came the idea of recording sound and later playing it back. Music rolls and records developed, until tapes became popular in the late 50’s, and cassettes in 1963. Compact discs (CDs) first appeared in the early 80’s, and remained on of the most popular methods of listening to music until the early 2000’s. Modernly, music can be listened to in nearly any form, but is primarily downloaded to smart phones or streamed off of apps. Live music is still popular, though not so much as it was in the past, and many people still listen to songs off CDs, records, and
The journey trope functions in A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan and By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño to reveal how time becomes the underlining antagonist that continuously torments the characters throughout their lives. Time – as represented in these two novels – has its own palpable energy that takes on the metaphysical embodiment of the ‘goon’ and the ‘wizened youth’. Both these characters take the members of their respective novels on a journey of realisation, regret, and remorse and introduces the readers to the concept that time is the only truth and it is not always kind. In A Visit from
McBride’s idea of limitation is prominent during the time of slavery for African Americans, as these same limitations are present during the twenty first century. The power of limitations that African American Women faced during the time of slavery hindered their ability to gain freedom, as freedom for slaves was the ultimate American Dream. James McBride exemplifies this in the novel Song Yet Sung as the first character that we meet is Liz, whom happens to be African American Women. When McBride first introduced Liz to the audience, she was running away from her master as she was chasing the American dream known as freedom.
Aretha Franklin is a well known pop, R&B, and gospel singer. She has been nicknamed “The Queen of Soul” and is an internationally known artist and a symbol of pride in the African American community. Her popularity soared in 1967 when she released an album containing songs “I Never Loved a Man”, “Respect”, and “Baby I Love You.” Throughout her career she has achieved fifteen Grammy Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Legend Awards, and many Grammy Hall of Fame Awards. In 1987 she became the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Time magazine chose her as one of the most influential artists and entertainers of the 20th century. She sang at Dr. Martin Luther King’s funeral and at former President Bill Clinton’s inaugural party. Although she has all these accomplishments and awards there are other reasons that have driven Franklin to fame and landed her on the front cover of Time magazine on June 28, 1968. The reasons I believe allowed Aretha Franklin to become so successful are the following: Her family’s involvement with religion, the inspiring people that surrounded her, and the pain she suffered.
In the last stanza the traveler sensed that he may be sharing his decision with someone with possible regret about how he came to a fork in the road in the woods and made a decision that affected the rest of his life. Because of his decision his life is what it has become. Unfortunately, we must live with the decisions that we make in life, and many times we are not able to change them.
Led Zeppelin was one of the giants of the 1970’s in hard rock. They were also one of the greatest success stories that ever played hard rock music. The group was one the more popular hard rock groups that performed in the seventies, and even had some hits in the 1960’s.
The lyrics of country music reflect people’s lives as times changed. According to "Poetry For The People: Country Music And American Social Change", published by Southern Quarterly in Ebsco Host, country music depicted “the white, Protestant and working-class Southerner”, “addressed their pain, their dreams struggles, beliefs and moral dilemma”.
searching for years. In the next 45 years of his life he spent it traveling
Funk, Soul, R&B, Pop, Hard Rock, Soft Rock and Disco were popular all over the world at this time, and in the late 1970s a new type of genre of music was born, hip-hop. Some of the best Rock and Roll we have ever seen was recorded in the 1970s, such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and David Bowie. The early 70s was a lot similar to the late 60, The Rolling Stones, Beatles, Doors, and Jimi Hendrix were all very popular at this time. That was until Led Zeppelin formed and changed everything, “It’s truly impossible to oversell how brilliantly these records are produced; “rock” as an idea is really a ’70s idea, and Led Zeppelin established what that would mean and what it would sound like.”(Pitchfork, 2014) Led Zeppelin came along and emerged into something like The Beatles of the 70s. Every member in that band is considered one of if not the best in that field, and it is debateable that they are one of the best bands ever
“Oh, I kept the first for another day!” Despite this wish he realizes he can never come back and take the untaken path because his choice will lead him in a different direction. He knows that “way leads on to way.” Realistically he doubts if he will ever come back because it is impossible to return to that place and make the same choice under similar circumstances because the original choice will have changed his life
The narrator picks a road and claims that he will come back to travel the other one another time.
Music has been around for thousands of years throughout the world dating all the way back to prehistoric times proven by the digging up of a 9,000-year-old flute that had seven holes drilled into it to create a musical scale in China ("Prehistoric flute music:," 2000). Music went through numerous stages before becoming what we know music as today. The earliest periods of music were the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Periods which took place from the years 500-1760. The next cluster of periods were the Classical, Romantic, and Modern Periods which ended in 1930 to bring us to the most recent periods: Twentieth Century Period and the ongoing Contemporary and Twenty First Century Periods.
Time is and endless phenomenon that has no beginning or end, therefore making it infinite. Emily Dickinson proves this point in her poem, Forever – is Composed of Nows, referring to “nows” as more significant than the future (Wilbur 80).
Live and recorded music have many differences that make each unique and enjoyable. Live music may be more costly and time consuming, but it is more energetic and interesting than recorded music. Live music can be dangerous and cause hearing problems, yet concerts are still selling out. Recorded music is cheaper and can be accessed almost anywhere, but it is not as exciting. Even through these differences, both types of music have the same basic structure, and is served as entertainment purposes that many individuals
The narrator must choose between two 'fair'; roads, of which he cannot see the endpoints. Wandering between the two, he finally decides to take the road 'less traveled by.'; Yet, like most people, he later sighs with regret thinking of what he might have
... executed in order to set off into the world alone. The influence that independent travel has on an individual is a splendor upon riches because it does so much for a person, and provides humans with a sense of the world. How a person can makes new friends and learn about new cultures and accept other people’s way of living. With its educational purposes traveling alone can bring, offers an endless amount of living data that tops any history book or internet page. Traveling is concrete history that is continuing around everyone. It can provide people to look through different lenses and experience aspects of life that they know they will never experience again in their lifetimes. Traveling alone provides an endless journey and an empty page in the minds scrapbook that is waiting to be filled with new memories and the endless amount of true belonging and bliss.