Neil Young: a pop culture essay

Pop Culture Essay
Neil Young has made a career out of writing intelligent, poetic music that has
related to a wide range of people for 40 years. His songs consist of insightful storytelling
and music that conveys the intended emotions of that song, appealing to the variety of
human emotion, thus making his music accessible to so many people. One of his
favorite themes is exposing social inequalities and injustice. In a song he released in
1970 titled "Southern Man", he sings of racial prejudice in the southern states of the
United States. More specifically he refers to the era of…