We don’t know the beginning of punk music but we do know that it started to become a movement somewhere around the city of Detroit. One of the song “The Motor City is Burning” describes the events of Detroit race riot. This song was referring to the downfall of Detroit because it describes the racial discrimination of black people and how they decided to riot to stand up for themselves. As you see, this whole song describes what happened during one of the race riot and its to show that black people are willing to riot to stop the harassment from police officers. One phrase, “Well, Fire bomb fallin' all around me And soldiers standin' ev'rywhere” I could hear the people screaming” caught my attention because it gives me a whole perspective that people are willing to do to stand up for themselves even if it means death. The whole point of this song was to spread this message across Michigan to symbolized the day that people finally got tired of being trampled upon and that the only way to end the racist regime of the white supremacist is to fight back. Another song “1969” that was produced by the Stooges also had a similar theme to “The Motor City is Burning” because they both talk about the depressing state of Detroit. The song “1969” even had a phrase where they said It's another year for me and you …show more content…
It just goes to show that during this time it was a state of depression because there was racial
Depending on where white of middle and upper class treated the other races within this spectrum of diversity one could predict how difficult one’s life would be during
but during that time it was, it expressed how the people in Harlem were feeling and they
“Lenox Avenue: Midnight”, my personal favorite of the two, is more of an outlook on urban life back then, stating that “The Rhythm of life/ Is a jazzy rhythm,”. There is an uneasy connection between urban life itself and the blues music that was so common during that time in that urban life itself is nothing but the blues and that “the gods are laughing at us.”
understand is that the systems put in place in that era still effect black Americans, and racial issues were
The 1930’s were a decade plagued by the colossus economic downturn known as the Great Depression. With unemployment levels surpassing 20%, people did anything to earn money. This included riding the rail lines in order to look for work in other cities. In the American South, the problems of economic downturn and the problems of racial tension met in 1931 during the court case of the Scottsboro Boys.
People, especially blacks, were being put out of work everywhere; the wave of depression had hit the entire country. Banks were failing, and the cities, in a desperate attempt to provide relief, were running out of money. Because President Hoover was confident that business conditions would soon improve, federal funds were not used to provide relief; relief was the responsibility of private charities. City allowances soon ran out, and there was no money left. Pennies were used to buy food and fuel. Many people went without food in order to p...
most powerful signs of the racial divide in the United States. Marginalized and the poor remains
Depression. Black people were looked at as these people that are bad and will do very bad
The late 1970s gave birth to a punk culture that further distended into an evolution of the genre during the mid-1980s, particularly in Seattle, USA. A punk inspired movement called grunge became internationally recognized after Nirvana’s debut release album ‘Nevermind’, in 1995. Grunge gained a mass recognition for its punk ideology, attire and music, which stemmed further away, and was in itself a rejection to the mainstream metal and pop boom in the music industry of that time. Grunge incorporated a fusion of cultural and social threads that linked themes like feminism, liberalism, anti-authoritarianism, wry post-modernism, and not least a love of dirty, abrasive music; grunge reconciled all these into a seminal whole. (Standard grunge definition, Internet source)
With rioting and terrorism taking place around the world, more aggressive and rebellious styles were being created. The punk look came with this; singers like Johnny Rotton and bands like The Ramones and the Sex Pistols were a few to lead a new generation of teens. There was also the introduction of glam-rock in which musicians mixed glamour with rock. Davis Bowie was the most successful. Fans copied his "rooster" hair cut. He made the androgynous look popular.
The Great Depression was a major historical event that affected thousands of Americans during the 1930s. It was a time in which economic decline left people without jobs while struggling to keep a family and home together. It certainly was a devastating time for everyone. For African Americans, it was even more of a struggle as segregation and the oppression of blacks were just as strong as when the Jim Crow laws were initially established. “African Americans were only 64 years beyond enslavement, with de jure segregation relegating them to second-class citizenship and generally only the meanest, dirtiest employment.” (Bilal) During the Great Depression, music and jobs were taken by whites and African Americans struggled greatly. Holiday faced racial challenges in which her social status, as a young black woman, left her with only a few options for work. Occupations such as a washwoman or a prostitute were such jobs expected out of a young woman of her time.
"Social and Cultural Effects of the Depression." Ushistory.org. Independence Hall Association, n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2014.
The term Punk was coined by music reviewer Dave Marsh in 1971 to define a new and emerging style in music and culture. Anti-establishment in nature, Punk took its influence from the culture clashes of the 1960’s, creating a new style and sound that had a tremendous effect on fashion, art and youth culture in America and around the world. The effects of Punk are still felt on the cultural world today and the lifestyle is now being carried on by a new generation of young people.
The American rock band Nirvana impacted American culture and society by paving the way for the punk rock subculture into mainstream corporate America. Punk rock music stems from the rock genre but has its own agenda. The crux of punk rock is that it is a movement of the counterculture against the norms of society. Punk rock in itself is made up of a subculture of people who rejected the tameness of rock and roll music during the 1970s. (Masar, 2006, p. 8). The music stresses anti-establishment and anti-authoritarian ideas in its lyrics as well as scorns political idealism in American society. Before Nirvana unintentionally made punk rock a multi-million dollar commercialized genre of music, underground rock paved the way for the punk rock genre by creating core values that punk rockers drew upon.
The Great Depression was the worst and longest economic downturn ever in the United States. It began not long after the stock market crash which happened in October 1929. Poverty was an issue at the time. Some people starved to death, barely lived through it, or lived as they did before it happened. Money was a huge problem. As well as racism. Whites hated black people. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Said Martin Luther King, Jr. This means that hatred cannot be resolved with more hatred. Only love can keep people from hating each other. A white person’s word always overruled a black person’s, no matter what the case was. However, there were also prejudiced people. White people hated black people just based off of something they heard or simply just what they thought. Overall, racism, poverty, and prejudice had a huge impact on millions of lives during that time.