First Post

This blog will be about the power of music in protest and other social situations. My name is Colleen Lattyak and I am a student at Loyola University New Orleans. I listen to punk, ska, and rock and roll. I am also interested in small experimental bands and have recently been introduced to dub step and other electronic genres.  I have always thought that music is a power force in the world and has the ability to share ideas, thoughts and emotions that could not be expressed in words alone. 

The following video clip is the first scene in Pirates of the Caribbean, At the World’s End. It portrays the power of a song can have even when a prisoner sentenced to death. It gives hope saying that even though all the prisoners are going to die, their spirt will never really die. They are also showing that they still have no respect for the law and they will stick together even in the face death.

"Music is the unversal language of mankind"- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow