Music and Culture
Music and Culture come in so many
unique, fun interesting and natural thoughts especially when it comes to the
music and bands that represent people’s culture in a way that celebrate their
ethnicity. Music and culture in my opinion are two huge topics in people’s
lives. A culture for someone is what makes a person proud of whom they are and
the music following that person makes them who they are. Music has only got
more technology, but back in the 1960’s there was a band called the Beatles.
They were a band that toured extensively around the world. The Beatles came
into America from England long after the group started selling their albums.
Along with John Lennon and Paul
McCartney, these artists are also very famous singers who have been around the
same time as the band the Beatles. The Beatles had a band of four and were
traveling the world with their talent in music. Also, connecting the Beatles
with culture in a way of calling their music the “oldies” and how they
represent themselves to the world. People fell in love with the rock and roll
music and the culture of people being “hippies” and the public loving the
beats, sounds and feeling that came out of the Beatles lyrics. The Beatles hit
number one in the nation when they came into the United States. The “oldies”
and “rock N roll was the popular music back in the 1960’s and 1970’s is where
it all began for the Beatles.
My personal experience, along with my
family, my mother is in love with the Beatles and has them all over the house.
She has been listening to them since she was a teenager in high school at the
age 16 years old. My mother and her friends would blast the Beatles because the
rhythm and beat is what made their music so special. The Beatles have a lot of
courage and talent to show the world and showing their historical part about
them is very interesting. The Band is not together anymore unfortunately
because two of the gentleman passed away years ago. The Beatles had a main song that was always played
by the public and was always listened too. The song is called “Come Together”,
and this song showed a lot and how the band the Beatles represent themselves by
their music genre and their historical lives to how they became known.
Analyzing the research paper by Luis Alvarez,
Music was an “Intellectual part of the Zoot subculture” (6). This brought
together many musicians and caused bands to collaborate their culture in to one
and also saw their realities. Also, a culture and the attitude people had were
motivated by peers and desires. Alvarez states “The Non- white youth showed
that another social world was possible” (7). Furthermore, this helped grow on
the Jim Crow segregation.
Music and Culture are main points all
around in a person’s life. The Beatles are a very old band in which have
influenced thousands of people from all over the world and from the culture
history of the Beatles comes from their hometown England along with their
talented voices. Analyzing the band the Beatles and the “Zoot-Zoot” is a comparison
but also have a lot of culture connection; the same as different cultural like
“Chicana” and “Latina”. The Beatles show of the ethnic through their music and
identity.
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