Be awed at the power of music. There quite simply is nothing like it. It moves you. It makes you sing at the top of your lungs and dance like no body's watching, except for when you look at the car next to you and everyone in that vehicle is laughing. Music can even turn a dark, grim occasion into an all out celebratory dance party. Take it from me, playing some Earth, Wind and Fire at the reception of my Grandmother's funeral might not have seemed like a good idea, but it turned an event that was once filled with gloom and sorrow into a celebration of my grandmother's life. Besides, Earth, Wind and Fire was one of her favorite bands, so she would have been cool with it.
However, this blog won't be about the power of music and its effects on the individual. Rather, it will show how music inspires groups of individuals and vice-versa. This blog will show how music and social change go hand and hand. It will show how the use of music has brought new and groundbreaking social ideas to the forefront of american popular culture, and how these social changes effect the music as well.
From the Rock-n-roll of Elivs and Jerry Lee Lewis of the 50's to the Motown movement of the 60's, all the way up till the G-Funk era of hip hop in the 90's, music has always made a statement. No matter what decade, or what genre, music in America has always been about more then just dancing. It has and forever will be the eyes into the social struggle of todays youth.
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