What should I do my English report over?

[milligram_smile]

Ok, heres whats up...I was assigned a music themed report for english. I just need a general topic for it involving music, preferrably punk or hardcore. I am having trouble thinking of the right topic for the report and I could use any suggestions. Thanks for helping, and be serious, I need this....

**it would be reaaaaally cool if i could do a report over modern emo/screamo music...but i need that topic....help me...**

[richter915]

Ok, heres whats up...I was assigned a music themed report for english. I just need a general topic for it involving music, preferrably punk or hardcore. I am having trouble thinking of the right topic for the report and I could use any suggestions. Thanks for helping, and be serious, I need this....

**it would be reaaaaally cool if i could do a report over modern emo/screamo music...but i need that topic....help me...**
it would be kool to do a report on modern themes in rock but honestly, you'll have shit loads of trouble doing it. I recommend you do something on the wave of punk in the late 70s early 80s...the themes in the lyrics, it's roots, pioneering bands, the effect they had on today's music...what brought it about.

ya it sounds real cliche but that's my recommendation.

[YourLatestVicti]

I know it's been talked about a lot here but violence at shows and the punk community in general.

[Blackout.In.Red]

going off of both of these suggestions, what you could do is to actually trace violence in accord to punk music and the public's reaction, compare/contrast the reaction in the late 70s/early 80s and then reactions now...a source you could use is "coloring outside the lines: a punk rock memoire" by aimee something...her email address is possumwp@aol.com if you needed more info after reading the book.

[Signals Corrupted]

i say you just use ryan mill's article hahaha.

[Say_yes]

I'm doing an essay on the language of music journalis, It's quite interesting, and you can include some of the bands you like if you find good material to use!

[richter915]

I'll email u my paper on the relationship between musical preference and political orientation.

[BrandNew20]

I know it's been talked about a lot here but violence at shows and the punk community in general.

I dont know if you read it or not, but I think Frank wrote an article about that for this site some time ago, actually.

[FinchBulldog2]

Why people feel the need to "dress the part" for whatever music they listen to. Whether it's the dirty grunge kid, the thugged out rap look, the feminine emo look, or the black metal look.

[GutterProphet]

maybe u should write ur report on the skyrocketing popularity of emo/screamo rock. Tell about ur opinions on whether or not it will last its youthful appeal or fade in the oblivion of modern rock memories. Does it have the staying power of other musical genres?

[Alan Rupp]

Sadly, when I was a senior, I wrote a persuasive essay about why someone should listen to emo. Over 2 years later, I read it again and laughed at my idiocy. So my recommendation is don't write about whatever music you like now.

Instead, try to find a broad theme that can be applied to a lot of different forms of music and relate to how they are all tied together. Such as violence like somebody else mentioned. Or if you wanted to be more direct, you could talk about violence in the early community (punk/hardcore) that spawned its own subculture that was anti-violence (posi/some straight edge), only to then ultimately come back to violence again (militant straight edge).

Basically violence is a trend in punk. Sometimes popular, sometimes not.

But yeah, I like the violence idea.