This document provides information about the cultural impact of music through various artists and bands. It discusses how music can impact cultures, morals, and emotions. It then summarizes the key points about influential bands like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, AR Rahman, Michael Jackson, Queen, and their cultural significance. The Beatles popularized new styles of music, fashion, and helped shape the 1960s counterculture movement. Michael Jackson was a pioneering artist who broke racial barriers and influenced global music and dance.

1. MUSIC TRANSCENDING
CULTURES
Saasha Jethwani 15020621245
Krishna Mirpuri 15020621137

2. Impact of music
1. Cultural Impact- #Selfie, captions, rap,
verbal IQ
2. Moral Impact- Songs on alcohol, drugs,
violence
3. Emotional Impact-
● Active listening amps up happiness
● Singing together brings us together
● Effects of music on stress and anxiety
● Mood management

3. THE BEATLES
● English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.
● 1964- President Kennedy assassination, Vietnam war,
racial conflicts and drug use was becoming popular
among the youth.
● Members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George
Harrison and Ringo Starr
● Influence on rock era
● Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
● Our world broadcast- 1967 across 24 countries, 400
million viewers
● Staged a large stadium concert in Shea Stadium in New
York City record audience of 55,600. The event sold out in
17 minutes.

4. THE BEATLES- Continued
● More popular than Jesus
● Bohemianism
● Psychedelia
● Story of Hey jude
● The beatle haircut, the hippie look, long hair movement
● Fashion- during the psychedelic era of 1967–1968, The Beatles popularized bright
colors, suits and shirts and trousers with floral patterns.
● Also popularized Indian-influenced fashions such as collarless shirts and sandals,
sitar(george harrison)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgJQ6LQ8x1E

5. PINK FLOYD
“So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death”

6. AR RAHMAN
1) Genre Variety - (debut in 1992); Will I am and PCD
2) Patriotic themes
3) Staying aloof despite success
4) Working Style
5) Story behind Khwaja mere Khwaja- encapsulation of cultures.

7. ● American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor, and philanthropist.
● Dubbed the "King of Pop
● contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with his publicized personal life
made him a global figure
● Pop, soul, rhythm and blues, funk, rock, disco, post-disco, dance-pop
● 13 grammy awards
● We are the world($63m for humanitarian aid in Africa)
MICHAEL JACKSON

8. MICHAEL JACKSON.. CONTINUED
-indeterminate mix of human types, into a sort of ageless arch-person, blending black and
white, male and female, adult and child. “symbol of universalism”
-We are limited only by our power to dream.
-The most-impersonated artist.
-MTV colour barrier- Billie Jean
-Opened floodgates for black culture through reverse engineering(thriller video)
-Cross-genre collaborations(Eddie Van Halen on “Beat It” or Paul McCartney on “The Girl
Is Mine)
-music video as an artform, influence of choreography, dance culture- moonwalk

9. THRILLER VIDEO
Jackson released "Thriller", a 14-minute music video directed by John Landis, in 1983.The
zombie-themed video "defined music videos and broke racial barriers" on the Music
Television Channel (MTV), a fledgling entertainment television channel at the time. In
December 2009, the Library of Congress selected the "Thriller" music video for inclusion
in the National Film Registry. It was one of 25 films named that year as "works of
enduring importance to American culture" that would be "preserved for all time."As of
2009, "Thriller" is the only music video to have been inducted into the registry

10. QUEEN
● Influences
● Themes
● Genres
● Epics?
● Freddy Mercury- The Enigma

11. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
While I think that it is certainly possible there is a hidden message in this song I dislike the
way most of it was interpreted especially the gun to his head part. If I were going to put it
into terms of a "coming out" song I would see that as the actual coming out, killing his
heterosexual life and showing his true self to "mama"( Mary Austin )

12. Kabir Cafe