Final chapter essay

The Final Chapter Essay

The last 2 decades have been monumental to our history. America began a war in the Middle East, technology has been exponentially expanding, and music has been evolving rapidly. Every end has a new beginning and this was epitomized by the fact that every decade in the 1900’s was considered an era with some type of huge contribution to mankind that is worth remembering. Once the 80’s came to an end the dust began to settle and people seemed to be leaning towards a more modern and less radical life style. Hope for this new life emerged in 1992 when Bill Clinton became our president. Clinton made promises of a new America, a place of opportunity, and unlimited growth. This hope quickly deteriorated on March 3, 1991 in California where Los Angeles police officers viciously beat a man named Rodney King so bad that other citizens, primarily African Americans, in Los Angeles created a riot that lasted 6 days throughout the city, destroying buildings and attacking other police officers. From this horrifying time came a society of people that felt the need to speak up for their rights and thus “gangster rap” was born which evolved from the streets of California. This music became more direct and profane, depicting life as a gang member and the crude acts and lingo that came with it, but with its popularity it also was a tool used to get people to listen and hear about the corruptions happening that were so relatable to life in those communities at that time.

In the 90’s the entire globe became connected through the World Wide Web or the “internet” and in linking computers, music became available through Mp3 format and no longer did we need to purchase a vinyl disk or cassette. Music suddenly became a collection of...

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...very big artist like Skrilex, and Avicii, Whose works are becoming so big they are almost all becoming new anthems for people.

The last 24 years have been crazy it has been a whirlwind of events and because there is so much music coming out it is very easy to love relevance in the industry. So in order to stay at the top artist are almost becoming like machines just pumping out song after song, but at the same time working on a big project like there album they are gonna come out with as there big piece of work. We watched the internet take over and become the new platform where many artist reach out and have a place to be heard. In the future I see a lot of people that will still be relevant because they understand that being an artist you have to have substance in your music. That is where the test of time will tell the future of music for the next chapter 2014-…?