The British invasion of American popular music: What is it and who pays?Examined the extent of violence and sexual content in 166 concept videos appearing on "Night Tracks," "Friday Night Videos," and Music Television. Visual dimensions of the videos were coded by 3 graduate students over a...
Sure, maybe the former song isn’t as rock-heavy or revolutionary as the latter, but it is similarly emotional, vocally impressive, and a song we think will remain as a “classic” in years to come. “Butter”—BTS If the Beatles brought the “British Invasion” to the U. S. in ...
EXPLAINER: What Is the United Nations? More Photo by Chris Hondros|Getty Images The United Nations logo seen on the back wall of the General Assembly Hall on May 12, 2006, at the United Nations headquarters in New York. In 1945, not long after the end of World War II, representatives ...
What is Eurovision? The short answer: Eurovision is a music competition, in which performers from countries across Europe, and a few beyond it, compete under their national flags to be crowned continental champion. Think of it as the Olympics of pop music. The longer answer is that Eurovisio...
The 2010s was also the decade when the British Empire struck back. The British Invasion has never really let up, and there hasn’t been a time since 1964 when UK artists haven’t been at the international forefront, from Radiohead and Oasis in the 90s, toAmy Winehouse,Coldplay, Adele an...
Celtic music is a term applied to a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe. To learn more about its rich history, unique instruments, and distinct melodies, we invite you to d
4. because this inner drive that can be either constructive or destructive is so mysterious and powerful that it has attracted many people to speculate on it. From ancient times, these men and women developed artistic “languages” in the form of story, music, myth, painting, architecture, sc...
Why was folk music created? Why is country music important? Why is music appreciation important? Why is pop music important? Why is Chant important to the history of music? Why was jazz music important in Europe? Why was jazz music created? How did the British Invasion change music history...
AEI's Danielle Pletka and Marc Thiessen address the foreign policy questions we're all asking in their podcast, What the Hell Is Going On?
What did the President George W. Bush say when the US invaded Afghanistan? The invasion, led by US forces with help from NATO allies, was framed specifically as a step in a war on terrorism. “These carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist ...