Essays on Entertainment

The Nashville Sound The Nashville sound isn’t quite what you’d expect. The Nashville sound doesn’t have fiddles and steel guitars. It’s more of a refined sound with chorus singers in the background and orchestra style playing for the instrumental. The point was to get people…

Introduction Over the years, The X Factor which is a Fox reality singing competition has been a veritable platform where aspiring talents launch their careers. Notable among celebs whose careers germinated on the fertile soil of The X Factor is Willie Jones – American born…

Johnny Paycheck, his life, his songs, his hardships, and even his name, are all such great masterpieces that were revealed to the world. His existence has been a wonderful influence to many people. We are lucky enough to meet such a rare and glorious artist…

Introduction Country music has evolved and changed over the past decades, but one genre that can be overlooked the most is red dirt. Red dirt is not as popular as the classics such as Garth Brooks or George Strait or even the new generation of…

Introduction Contrary to popular belief, country music is not as universally American as is often assumed. For many, in fact, the genre is almost taboo – those willing to publicly admit they enjoy country music are often ridiculed or written off, despite the continued presence…

Introduction “Grandma, do you want to be my role model for my school project?” “Why not, Ash you look up to me now” I had a choice of so many people to pick from, but I chose my grandmother. After my grandmother explained to her…

Luis Valdez mixed art and politics in his writing, like “Zoot Suit” which focuses on the Zoot Suit Riots that occurred in Los Angeles during the 1940s. The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of violent clashes between U.S. servicemen who would attack young Latinos…

Introduction The Zoot Suit movie not only brought us closer to the lives of the Pachucos, but also provided us with to a clear vision of the events that led to the riots in June of 1943, in the city of Los Angeles. In that…

Being Pachuco During the 1940s in the United States, discrimination against Chicanos rose highly after the Sleepy Lagoon incident in 1942. At the time, the sleepy lagoon was a pool where Mexican Americans/Chicanos could hang out at due to the racial segregation going on in…

Zoot Suits Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez explains the racially charged trial of Sleepy Lagoon in 1942 in which the court of California charges a group of Chicanos with the murder of another Mexican-American man. For Chicanos, 1940 was an era of discrimination so the…