Personal Narrative: Soundtrack To My Life

Soundtrack to My Life

Music means many things to many people. Music has the power to transcend boundaries, motivate, inspire and influence our emotions among other things. Throughout my life music played an important role, especially during my more troubling moments. Many of my dearest and fondest memories are easily relived by merely listening to music. My musical tastes have changed as I have grown. During different time periods in my life my musical sensibilities provided the soundtrack that I lived by.

I smile as I think about the music I listened to during my childhood years. I was heavily influenced by my parents when it came to music as a child. I can remember sitting home in the evenings and watching my dad work out in the garage while listening to amazing Hispanic bands like El Gran Combo, Hector Lavoe, and Celia Cruz. The hypnotic nature of Salsa music always had my dad dancing salsa in between sets of lifting weights which was so much fun to watch at a young age. In our text it was stated “Once rhythm was discovered, it never left musical art” (Janero, Altshuler, 2012, p. 158). For me once I discovered the salsa rhythm and how hypnotic it is I would never forget it or how it reminded of my dad during his workouts. That is a memory that I will always cherish.

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Reason being is that the music is so high energy it’s hard for me to stay still while listening to it. In fact I always listen to this type of music whenever I am working out, walking or riding bike or just out and about somewhere. Bands like Swedish House Mafia are in heavy rotation on my smart phone and on constant repeat throughout the day. Also the EDM community is friendly and that adds the lure of the EDM festivals. Just knowing that when you go to an EDM festival you are meeting with like minded people with the same taste in music and that makes them an experience you will not soon