Narco Corridos: genre of Mexican music based on the polka, depicting drug smugglers, cartels, and other criminal activities. Narco Corridos is one of the most popular styles of music in the U.S. Mexican border given the Grammy winning and awards, the popularity of Narco Corridos among the Hispanic culture continues to be a topic of debate whether this type of music genre is glorifying the violent crimes, conquest of Mexican drug lords, and other criminal activities, and influencing the young population of Hispanic by making them want to dress and mimic certain criminal behaviors. This genre of music or the singers in specific make the Hispanic or whoever listens to the music feel identified by admiring the drug lords, drugs, cartels and crime.
Critical Response 4 Within his article, Simon Frith asks a question that caused me to stop and think: “The question we should be asking is not what does popular music reveal about ‘the people’ but how does it construct them? (137)” As he states, music is an individualizing form that creates an identity or self-definition that we use to give ourselves a particular place in society. The hip hop movement aided in constructing the Puerto Rican identity in New York City, allowing artists to experiment with language and race relations while challenging the traditional notions of Latinidad.
The five students in this movie are associated with a different class statuses at the beginning. For example, Allison is portrayed as an “outcast” and a liar, while Andy is seen as a jock and an athlete, John is characterized as a criminal and is seen as an older guy who has failed in school shown by his appearance, Brian is known as a smart student, and Claire is seen as a spoiled girl, and who belongs to a higher class. The student has based their self being on social interactions and is impacted by their surroundings, the students have imposed the role that each person should play. Claire and Andy are recognized as being in upper the social class by sitting at the same table in the library, while all other students sit alone demonstrating
The United States is well known for being a melting pot of cultures, and because of this there are constantly changing trends. In the 1980s it was poofy hair and disco clothes, in the early 2000s it was long hair for guys, and in recent years it has been for guys to have short, styled hair. There is always something trendy in the United States, and in the early to mid 20th century, it was the color pink and the (pink) flamingo. Jennifer Price details this in her essay ”The Plastic Pink Flamingo”. Through her use of satirical devices, Aristotelian appeals, and persuasive techniques she shows how the country is constantly going through fazes.
During the post-World War I era, the new societal craze was jazz music, complete with orchestras and horns and pianos. It was because of the newly widespread ideal of consumerism and the invention of the radio that spread all around the country. The Jazz craze especially settled in among the younger generation like Daisy as it became all the rage to look like a “flapper,” a bobbed hair,
RMods Address the rules/boundaries/sanction of each subculture in terms of age, gender, and ethnicity. Who can belong to the subculture? Are there rules (there are) for membership? The “mod” subculture belongs to a youth subculture of males that was originated in the early to mid-1960s of London, England. The mobs was composed of young teens that listened to modern jazz, and who also came from working-class families, which was a way for them to escape, rebel, and exert their independence from older generations.
Interpreting Objects “On Wednesday, we wear pink” circulates the internet and occasionally appears in conversation between teenagers. It summarizes the plot of the famed Mean Girls film from circa 1990 into a concise theme – the physical attributes determine your place in society. Culture, in general, operates visually with members asserting their status with their display of physical items. Children up through the elderly have selected decorations and clothing as projections of their personality and their desired social affiliations.
Mexican Regional Music Nowadays Mexican regional music is a musical genre with songs accompanied instrumentally with “banda”, mainly, to dance and with contagious rhythms. It has millions of followers, among them, adults, teenagers and kids. This essay focuses on the analysis of the social impact that it could have the content of this music. This musical category is so popular and it has big diffusion, it can be heard everywhere: at home, in the public bus, on the radio, on television with its correspondent music video, at job, at any time, it is contagious, easy to sing and memorize.
With every new generation of teenagers or young adults, there always seems to be this negative look towards the youth culture. What really strikes me is that it happens with every new generation. It seems like once a person hits their teenage years they suddenly become “rebels” of society, and for what reason? How do most adults see the younger generation? They are young people who have bad manners, no respect for the elderly, they are real tyrants, they do not stand up when elders walk in, they do not listen to their parents or teachers, they talk in the presence of adults, and they eat gluttonously (Socrates).
The lyrics of most rock and roll songs were provocative and dirty. However, the film was a hit and the song was history’s most successful rock single(Birth of the Cool- in class notes). Teenagers before the 1950s would dance and express themselves through classical and American pop music. During the 1950s, the teenagers of the newer generation expressed themselves through a different genre of music, rock and roll. It was exactly the same cycle that the newer generations’ parents went through as teenagers.
Society and the people with whom one is surrounded by has an influence on one 's decisions and viewpoints. The song ‘’ The Way I Am”, can be interpreted differently by a high school student from today 's era and a high school student from the 1980’s because there is a vast number of years between the two, throughout the years times changed and the world modernized in various ways,including the types of style of music. A high school student from today 's era and a student from the 1980’s have entirely different opinions because the music from today in comparison to music from thirty years ago is very distinct. The 80’s time period brought a wave of Hip Hop and Rap so that certain type of music was the latest thing.
Subcultures are values and norms different from those of the majority and are held by a group within a wider society, these social groups are organized around shared interests and practices. A subculture is usually attached to clothes music and other visible fronts within the given community, that is part of the general society. Subcultures contain individuals who think alike who feel like they are not a part of the bigger culture of society and then create a sense of identity for themselves. The term Hip Hop is used as a subcultural movement. Scholars such as Carl and Virgil Taylor emphasize “Hip-Hop is not only a genre of music, but also a complex system of ideas, values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film and fashion.”
The difference between the youth culture of the United States during the 1950’s and present day is that the youth will always clash ideas with their parents, but the subject to which they disagree will always be changing throughout time. The youth culture of the United States has changed in many ways as to what type of things that parents and children have different viewpoints about. Currently, both cultures do disagree on things from their parents, which is a similarity. For example, the youth culture of 1950 came around with rock’n’roll music, which was noise pollution to their parents, but harmony to the youth. The youth, for one of the first times, showed a great separation gap between parents and children.
Subculture throughout radio and popular music history has been a huge defiant in attracting attention in culture and society (Blackman, 2014). Blackman addresses this issue in his literature review in the article Subculture Theory: An Historical and Contemporary Assessment of the Concept for Understanding Deviance (2014) where he assesses the origins and politics concerning the way subculture has been applied mainly to youth cultures, focusing on the relationship between agency and constraint (Blackman, 2014). Blackman uses many other scholars to support his ideas as evidence especially Becker and Clinard. Yet as the reader you have to remember that a lot of his evidence must be viewed as dated even though Blackman wrote the article in 2014,
People are immersed in popular culture during most of our waking hours. It is on radio, television, and our computers when we access the Internet, in newspapers, on streets and highways in the form of advertisements and billboards, in movie theaters, at music concerts and sports events, in supermarkets and shopping malls, and at religious festivals and celebrations (Tatum,
