Death Post

Ashleigh Sala
Jay Patel
David Jolly
Matt Kolema

The main idea of the article The Show Goes On by Newman is that after an artist dies their music still lives on and is heard by many people. An example of this would be in the article when it says that Nowell was an artist whose name majority of music listeners had never heard of until after he had died. The counter argument would be that record companies wait to release the artists music for some time after they have passed away because they don't want to capitalize on some ones death to make money. We agree with the author because after the death of Michael Jackson he had music released and it was really popular and also rappers like Tupac had popular music released after his death.


The second article was The Art of Dying by Thomson and the gist of that article was that artists should talk more about other things other than death. Songs are made and the whole idea is based around death and many people feel that they should make music about other aspects of life. An example would be when Jagger said, "There's no harm in going there, but you don't want to be there all the time". An counter argument for the main idea would be that a lot of artists are popular even though all they talk about is death. Jagger himself has been a fan of Dylan but he has always been a very dark writer and focuses on death in his music. We agree that music should be about more than just death but then again music styles like heavy rock and emo music is about death but it is still very popular.


The third article Dead Ahead by Sullivan is that developed and does not have a obvious main idea. The main point of the article is how record companies put together Cd's and albums after the artist dies and they become popular. The article gives examples of Elvis Presley and Jhon Lennon and their music still gets released that the audience has not heard of yet. An counter argument would be some people do not want their music released like Courtney Love did not want Kurt Cobain's music to be released after his death. The article goes on to give a list of songs that were released after the artists death.


Death songs

I feel like dying by Lil Wayne
Yellow Butterfly by Meg Andeia
Ain't No Grave by Johnny Cash
Carry Me Down by Demon Hunter