`` Rebel Music `` By Daniel Felsenfeld - 869 Words

Most humans want to learn things as they grow, because of the need to adapt and evolve as the landscape changes around them. As a person grows, the need to either learn a skill or perfect an ability to complete a task is increased. In Daniel Felsenfeld’s story, â€Å"Rebel Music†, he describes the music literacy he developed throughout his teenage years. This was due to him finding another genre of music that garnered his attention turning him to become a composer of classical music. In Shannon Nichols story, â€Å"Proficiency†, she mentions developing a nonchalant attitude toward reading and writing due to failing a proficiency test multiple times. In many ways, I can certainly relate to them in terms of Felsenfeld developing a new attitude towards classical music. As well as Nichols having a nonchalant attitude towards reading and writing. Compared to Felsenfeld, during a time in my life when I grew very weary of today’s southern mumble hip hop, I found myself becoming a huge fan of 90’s hip hop, and that has given me the urge to possibly purse a career in hip hop. Continuing, we both started to take interest in music that other’s in our communities didn’t listen to at the same age of 17. On the other hand, when comparing my literacy development to Nichols we both developed nonchalant attitudes after experiencing failure. She developed that trait after failing a test multiple times, but I developed a nonchalant attitude when trying to write out lyrics that contain complex rhymes andShow MoreRelatedArtifacts Essay1476 Words   |  6 PagesHow Gymnastics Influenced My Life In â€Å"Rebel Music†, Daniel Felsenfeld delves into the inspirations he has drawn from music in his childhood. He tells of the struggles he experienced and the lack of inspiration from mandatory piano lessons from Ms. Shimizu. Although he dazzled her every time, he never felt connected to the music. Felsenfeld reminisced, â€Å"I was experiencing a personal drought, an acrid lack of culture of all kinds, especially music† (Felsenfeld 624). After he heard Beethoven’s Ninth