What attracts a person most are the lyrics that Edwin McCain writes. ... McCain's clever lyrics portray his views on young people such as, "Youth goes hand in hand with foolish pride," and his love-as-a-war view saying, "The blood that was spilled in the heartache before left road maps of scars that I never, never could ignore" (Misguided Roses). Singing these lyrics with his soulful voice with a slight touch of Southern charm, McCain makes you believe every word that soars from his heart. In addition to McCain's amazing lyrics, his musical skills are also ver...

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Others talk of its roots in African rhythms, Spanish lyrics, Cuban street bands, Caribbean song and dance styles and Latin American jazz. ... In the beginning years salsa lyrics mainly were about the problems that moved the people living in the Barrios all over Latin America, like social struggle, discrimination, financial needs and dreariness. Later Salsa lyrics developed into simpler arrangements called Salsa Romantica and Salsa Erotica. This style was characterized by a more moderate tempo and by lyrics that were love and sex related. ...

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Genre/Lyrics Even with the influences he has amassed, his music appears simple at first, until you listen closer and peel back his layers. ... He has incorporated lyrics from earlier songs into his more recent ones. ... At concerts he will often move right into another one of his songs through a short interlude of similar musical lines including lyrics. ... Sting usually writes all of his own music and lyrics. ...

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I think it benefited my concert experience dramatically because it does not only helps me understand the lyrics, but also enable me to feel the emotions these performers trying to express. ... As the female voices sing along the lyrics, humming harmonies are heard from the background. ...

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My favorite genres of music are very different than most people would think. Though I like rock and roll as much as anyone, I love any kind of music with a blues or jazz sound. I think that this is because I love the way that the singers sound. You can feel their intensity in the music and ton...

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Music is a great form of a historical source that tells us about people, places and histories of different civilizations and generations. Songs are generally divided into 3 categories: classical, popular and folk. The word song is divided into two categories; music which is the common ground between...

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A lot of rap music uses slang in their lyrics while rock tends to be more or less "sophisticated" in the diction of the artists. ... Rap music relies on the artist rhyming word together and the lyrics they say/ what purpose they have on saying it while rock music relies on the vocals of the artist and the melody to compliment the song. ...

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Different eras have often been defined by the type of music that is popular at that time. Certain songs or music genres are associated with various events in history. African spirituals were carried to America among the hearts of oppressed slaves in the 1600s. They were later used to help runaway sl...

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He never experienced a dry spell or the composer's equivalent of writer's block, and he was equally adept at composing music to which words were added or fitting music to book and lyrics already written, as he did in Porgy and Bess. ...

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From virtuoso musicianship, to progressive arrangements and textural landscapes, to their thought-provoking, insightful lyrics, they continue to astound me, and I constantly discover new things in their music after some 12 years of listening. ...

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By 1925 the pre jazz era was in full effect. Names like Louis Armstrong, Duke' Ellington, and Count' Basie were going to be a part of jazz history forever. As jazz became the backbone for most of the music that is heard today, many names were going to be recognized for their contributions to music...

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Billie Holiday was known, as one of America's most memorable and influential all-time great jazz vocalist. The inspiration for many aspiring singers today, Holiday had a singular voice steeped in aching emotion and fueled by an uncanny sense of swing. She not only stamped her distinctive signature o...

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The everlasting development of Rock and Roll throughout the years of the twentieth century was like an everlasting lasting wave that kept picking new bands up in the process of time. From the start of music bands that played Blues music like Muddy Watters, then changed all the way through the years...

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In Japan, they would listen to the popular music that had been made in America and make their own version of the song and translate the lyrics of the songs.9 This began to be a reoccurrence with the Japanese using America for their customs. ...

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Often referred to as the "Father of Soul", Ray Charles Robinson is considered to be one of the most influential pioneers of soul music during the 1950's due to his unique jazzy music style that incorporated rhythm and blues as well as gospel. Ray Charles was most notably known for his popular hit si...

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