What Music Means to Me

Kristina

What Music Means To Me

HU 300-21 Arts and Humanities Twentieth Century

Kaplin University

Professor John Mack

“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to,” Elvis Presely (www.brainyqoute.com).

As Elvis has put it in this quote I too don’t know anything about music. Besides what I have learned through the stages of my life. Music has educated me in my childhood, it has created a bond between a difficulty father and daughter relationship, it has defined moments in my life.

Has child music played a great part of my learning? Learning my ABC, and 1-2 Buckle My shoe help me learn the fundamentals for my education. Narrative songs like the rhymes for Mother Goose we would tell a tale and taught me my story telling and help grow my imagination (Janaro & Altshule, 2009, p. 152). Accumulation songs like “Old McDonald” and “Bingo” which verse after verse repeats of lines taught me that repetition helps with my memory and memorization (Janaro& Altshule, 2009, p. 152). “You Are My SunShine” had a soft and smooth tone help put me to sleep.

“A hundred years from now, people will listen to the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart” (page 164).

In my adolescent I didn’t rebel at all, unlike my friends have especially music. Music that was in my life during this time was a mixture of Pop, R&B, Rockapella, Big Band, and Soft Rock. Groups like New Kids on the Block, Boys to Men, Areosmith, Brian Setzer defined the era of music that I listen to and grew up with. The major apart of this time of my life I listened to a lot of music from the 50’s and 60’s not just Elvis Presely and Beatles, but also like Buddy Holly, Frankie Avalon, and the Big Bopper. Music during my adolescent became a bond experience with my father. I didn’t play sports like my brother due to my heart condition, I didn’t really like to watch sports so my father and I really didn’t have something to bring us together until I started to take an...