Michael Jackson

Hearing hair bands blasted at 100 volumes for six hours drove me insane. And seeing him air drum was like watching my team get blown out.But as I closely watched him I could see the nostalgia from a beloved past emitting from his body. I wanted to know why those songs brought him so much…

Written by Alice Walker and published in 1982, The Color Purple is the story of two sisters living separate lives in the early 1900s: one a 14-year-old child wife living in the South and one a missionary in Africa. Although the book is set in the early 1900s during racial discrimination, the Great Depression, and…

In 1979, Michael Jackson released his fifth album Off the Wall, and it was a successful record, selling over 20 million copies worldwide. Between the years of Off the Wall and Thriller, Michael Jackson was in a transitional period. During that time, he became unhappy, and he said, “Even at home, I’m lonely. I sit…

Although their songwriting styles were increasingly contrasting, there were still striking similarities, as both songs were about the Liverpool of their childhood. Lennon’s lyrics to ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, however, dramatized a far more complex inner dialogue, characterized by stumbling qualifications (‘That is, I think, I disagree’). Musically, the songs were similarly intriguing, with ‘Penny Lane’…

Breakdancing Breakdancing Breakdancing a form of African American dance that emerged from the hip hop culture of the South Bronx, New York, during the mid-1970s. Drawing upon several African American dance forms, break dancing coalesced in the 1970s and reached its peak in popularity during the 1980s. Breakdancing developed out of the Bronx, New York,…