Ryan-F

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-This page was made to represent music from all different era's in time and music from different cultures. Music comes in all sorts of shapes and forms, but my main focus here, is african american culture mixed into the music we hear today.

Song Before 1974 This song was created by the beatles in 1966. At the beginning of the song, it presents a blues flow with the first two stanzas. The order goes A,B,B-A,B,B. "Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream It is not dying It is not dying
 * -[[image:beatles-itunes-no-deal.jpg]]"Tomorrow Never Knows" by The Beatles,1966**media type="file" key="01 Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows.mp3"

Lay down all thought Surrender to the void It is shining It is shining"    I also chose this song because a couple of my home friends showed me some selections of different beatles songs and i immediately asked" OMG, DO YOU KNOW WHAT YEAR THIS FROM?" and i prayed it was before 1974. The songs beat and rhythm has a chill tone to it but its still a rock song which means the instruments are loud, but the lyrics insist a chill, kind of mellow mood.   **[|Lyrics]**     **Song During this Century:**   **-"Gettin' Up" by Q-Tip, 2008**   media type="file" key="Q-Tip_Gettin Up 1.mp3"           [|Lyrics]

What i like about this song and this specific rapper is that in this song and rarely in his other songs, he doesn't talk in a way that degrades women. In this song he brings about many adjectives describing woman in a non-degrading way instead of just "SEX, SEX, SEX" references in every verse. This song connects african american history because it shows how far hip-hop as still come shedding light through the few artist who butcher the meaning of "Hip-Hop". Blue is the original form of hip-hop.This song seperates this artist from modern day artist because he actually knows what to say in his songs to make sence while other artist use dumb, meaningless lines such as, " Last night, your girl's forehead was on my abs". As we all know, that line has no meaning.

My favorite line from this song is, "I like to watch everybody gravitate towards you. Your magnetic presences make them come thru". That line shows that you can talk to a woman without being degrading or ignorant.

** Celia Cruz, Guantanamera, 1995 ** media type="file" key="guantanamera.mp3" [|Lyrics] Celia Cruz was a salsa singer and was one of the most successful Cuban singers of the 20th century, with 23 gold albums. I chose to use this song which originated in cuba because I love the story behind it. the first stanza is translated as "Girl from Guantánamo, peasant girl from Guantánamo." The song is about a sincere man trying to pour his heart out to this one girl from Guantanamo, and he tells her "i grow a white rose for you from June to January" and { The entire song is in a kind of chopped and screwed tempo, but the rhythm is on point almost like a jazzy song.