Metal And Blues
This essay shall take a look at the history of the past 20 years in the life of metal, chronicling its importance socially and culturally, accessing the technological changes that have taken place as well as how the relevance of it as a tool for social disparity has changed. The essay will also take a look comparatively at the blues and how it also takes social issues by the horns and pours them out into song form.
1. How is aggression portrayed with the musical elements
On the surface aesthetic it is "obvious" that Metal music is of a more aggressive nature than blues. This is an easy misconception to make and in fact taking any kind of musical form by face value without considering the whole is quite misguided. To discover the true nature of music you must pull it apart into its different facets, these are universal to all types of music and can then be utilized in this comparison of genres. Tonality, texture, lyrics, tempo, melody and instrumentation. All these are......
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