According to a CNN online report titled “Commentary: Hollywood Sees World In Black And White,” the entertainment industry, particularly in film and television, focuses primarily on Caucasians and African-Americans. So where are all the Asians, Latinos, Native Americans, and other racial groups? Philip Rodriguez, a filmmaker that specializes in producing […]

Belief in religion, it has been said, is not logical. It cannot be proven with mathematical equations by the scientific community, and therefore followers are sometimes looked at as having, as juxtaposition, an ability to suspend disbelief in order to believe.  In The Book of Eli, Denzel Washington isn’t […]

The basis for the action movie was formed from a variety of sources all of which pre-dated the invention of cinema. It is there in the swashbuckling stories of novelists like Alexandre Dumas and Sir Walter Scott, or the heroics of Odysseus and Hercules in Greek Mythology. In folklore, there […]

Drugs and civilization have grown side by side. Even in periods where drug use was frowned upon, some songwriters have found a way to sing about them even under the cover of bouncy pop sheens (“Got To Get You Into My Life”). At very least, the feelings of being high […]

Classical French folk music is conscious artistry defined. Possibly no other country’s folk music rivals the melodic perfection of the French. Many French folk songs stem from the Medieval Period and the advent of the troubadours from Spain. However, the Celts were living in early Gaul at the time. They […]

Many of the most famous classical music pieces have their roots in folk music. The first folk dances and songs were not written down. They were played by ear and passed down from generation to generation. Every kind of human feeling is expressed in folk music. Folk music expresses the […]