Music Paper

Hip-hop recording artist Kanye West is the artist that I chose for my paper. Kanye West is one of the most best-selling awarded artists in popular music. It is said Kanye West started rapping from a very young age and began his rap career in the late 90’s. A lot of Kanye West’s music and albums were generated from the famous music era Baroque but known today as Baroque pop. Baroque pop, stylistically, fuses elements of pop and rock with classical music, often incorporating instruments not common to popular music such as harpsichords, clavichords, violins, cellos and other strings, oboes and French horns. Kanye West’s style of production originally used high-pitched vocal samples from soul songs incorporated with his own drums and instruments.

He incorporates many different genres in his own music such as alternative, classical and industrial music. The high pitch in Kanye’s music allows for faster vibrations making his beats often mellow or fast paced. Since Kanye is a rapper/ singer there is often different variations in his tone. He started off with most know as gangsta rap and altered his music to today’s regularly listened to hip hop /pop music. Kanye is also known for his very flamboyant and extravagant performances. I was able to attend one of his concerts at the Barclays Center here in Brooklyn NY. I got to see all the action for myself and not only why his music was great but the delivery that made it fantastic as well. The concert opened up with a plethora of innovative props such as staged mountains.

The entire show consisted of music from his latest singles and albums Yeezus. Kanye showed off his musical talents with guitar solos and as the bright lights of the arena beamed on the center of the stage. Kanye does...

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...ell put together. The beats of each song was very striking and captivating. I feel as though many concerts should be about the music just as they were in the classical or romantic era, then it was an orchestra or a composer with his or her instruments and all the audience had was the beauty of music and visuals were left to their imagine it was easy to listen to classical music then and appreciate it for what it actually was without the use and hype of gimmicks gadgets and over the top props. The enhancers did more than enhancing they made the concert in a way but in my opinion a musical concert should be more about the music. Kanye is a great artist and often called a lyrical genius which to some aspects I can agree with but his ideas are very over the top. All in all, the entire concert was very much an experience none the less and the creativity was pleasurable.