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Amazing Grace Alternative Rock
1,258 words... ent melody. Its sounds like they are using the melody to the song House of the Rising Son, but with the lyrics of Amazing Grace. This helps to show how transferable this song is and its freedom. The hymn even appears in the realm of alternative rock (Selection 2), a style that is one of the most popular amongst the current generations. In this style, guitars mark the song again, but there is not the strict rock style. They are very free and upbeat with the rhythm. Also in the alternative sty...
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Task At Hand Arizona State
1,843 wordsIn this discussion we will analyze the theories of flow and anti-flow and their effects on the psyche of the human being in four parts. First, we will thoroughly define what flow and anti-flow are. Second, I have conducted two interviews to determine how flow and anti-flow effect the lives of two working professionals. The first interview with the human relations director at a local A. M. talk radio station, and the second, with a jazz guitar performance graduate from Arizona State University. N...
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Kurt Cobain Six Months
1,643 wordsKurt Donald Cobain was born in Aberdeen, Washington (about 60 miles southwest of Seattle). He grew up in a mid-class society and was hyperactive as child, so his doctor put him on Ritalin (a morphine based drug to help him concentrate in school). The drug often kept him up until 4 am. So he was given sedatives to get to sleep. Kurt had a happy childhood, until his parents got divorced when he was seven. It was an ordinary divorce, but Kurt got very upset about it. He said he never felt loved or ...
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Sky With Diamonds Rock And Roll
809 wordsFashion and music play a major role in influencing teenagers. Today, fashion and music are very diverse, with many different styles of dress and a variety of music. But it wasnt always like this. Bellbottoms, platform shoes, and Rock-and-Roll dominated the 1960 s. And with Rock-and-Roll came the Beatles and Beatlemania. Beatlemania swept over the United States in the 1960 s. The Beatles began in 1957 as teenage boys playing in cellars and drive bars in Liverpool, England, and Hamburg, Germany. (...
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Lonely Hearts Upper Lip
2,195 wordsI read the news today, oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade... he blew his mind out in a car. He didn't notice that the lights had changed. (the Beatles, 1967) These lyrics proved to fans that Paul McCartney had indeed died in a tragic auto accident in late 1966. Some people were skeptical about the explanation, but upon investigating the album covers and the lyrics of the Beatles's ong's, the story seems to make sense. Some of the lyrics have to be a twisted in order to make sense in th...
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Death Of Her Husband Barn Burning
1,062 wordsCharacters from different sources of literature can often be linked together and seem to have the same feelings, background, moral standing, or struggles. They may experience the same hardships, driving them to suffering, which other characters in literature encounter. In the book Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee, the main character was told from the age of seven the hardships she would encounter in her lifetime (Mukherjee 3). Pecola, from The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, experiences rape by her fat...
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Differing Mentalities In Hip Hop And Rock
787 wordsSome of my friends listen to certain genres of rock music, some listen to hip-hop. Despite our friendship we have differing views upon each genres of music. Having listened to both genres of music at one point in my life I have an understanding of why some rock listeners would be quick to reject hip-hop as meaningful, complex and valid art form. The production of hip-hop music first consisted of two turntables and a microphone. The originators of the music who embraced the essence of spoken word...
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Star Spangled Banner Purple Haze
1,002 wordsIn the following journal entries Johnny Allen Hendrix; two years later name officially changed to Jimi Hendrix describes his life from August 4, 1969 to August 18, 1969 and his encounters till the end of his Woodstock premier. August 4, 1969 At ten p. m. in our studio the band and I just got word from our record company about the live concert performance to take place in Woodstock, New York. We are a little scared, as a puppy would feel the first time away from its mother, yet pumped for the con...
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Chief Operating Officer Signal Processing
1,505 wordsExtent of the Investment Our organization is designed to enable us to deliver the cost, capability and overall financial performance to be the Benchmark and to meet customers needs. In order to accomplish this, there is funding needed in order to mass-produce, advertise, and sell the product. From our initial calculations, our first year needs are $ 1, 985, 536. In order to sustain growth in not only the company, but the product as well, an additional $ 3, 000, 000 is needed to rent office space...
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Music And History Of Dave Matthews
1,338 wordsDave Matthews, aided by his incredibly talented band-mates, created music that filled a spiritual void in his fans lives, replacing separatism with multicultural tolerance not usually advocated in todays society, using grass roots touring and advertising methods. Dave Matthews culturally diverse background helped him to develop a culturally tolerant mentality. Most of Dave Matthews tolerant outlook on society can be traced back to his exposure at a young age to various cultures and societies, wh...
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Number One Hit Rock And Roll
1,275 wordsThe beginning of Rock and roll started with The Twist. by Chubby Checker This song changed our dancing moves. Other dance songs that helped this period of rock and roll along include: The Mash Potato, The Monster Mash, the Pony, The Swim, The Jerk, The Monkey, and The Hill Gully. The first New York white rock star was Dion. He was the lead singer of the band the Belmont's. He was one of the the few rockers in his generation to evidence serious artistic growth (Unterberger). He moved into Country...
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Voice Important Element
1,068 wordsIt is apparent that female music in Canada is a growing industry, and plays a very controversial role in Canadian society. Canada is a land of many ethnic backgrounds and an extremely diverse culture, one of the best ways to express culture is through music. Sarah McLachlan has enjoyed worldwide success with the album Surfacing, and more recently Mirror ball. The album titled Surfacing was released in 1997 and features a song called Building a Mystery. Building a Mystery clearly exemplifies the ...
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High School Years Bob Dylan
1,290 wordsDylan and the Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowland Regarding significant musical movements in history, more specifically the twenty first century, few were more important than the folk revolution that took shape in the mid-nineteen hundreds. One of the leaders of this revolution was Robert Allen Zimmerman, known by his popular assumed name, Bob Dylan. Born in 1941 in Minnesota, Dylan grew up the grandchild of Jewish-Russian immigrants and had a surprisingly unexceptional childhood. His interest in music...
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Middle East Western Music
682 wordsThere are no specific words to describe the beauty of Egyptian music. Although I have lived there all my life, I only took notice of the ingenuity around two years ago; when I started playing the guitar. Egypt is located in the heart of the Middle East. It has always been the doors from Africa to Asia and vice versa, therefore, a strategic point on the map. From this, Egypt has been under constant invasion throughout her millennia life, for both her strategic point and wealth. However, it also b...
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Elizabethan Era Queen Elizabeth
866 wordsThe Sounds of Elizabethan Times The Elizabethan Era was a time when music and art were growing more and more each day. This time period, also known as the English Renaissance, is still well known for its styles and sound of music. Queen Elizabeth herself was a musician, and played both the lute and the virginal. It was thought that the virginal was named after Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen. Other instruments were popular during this time period were the spinet and the viol. All of these are string...
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Task At Hand Arizona State
1,899 wordsInFlow And Anti-Flow # INTRODUCTION: In this discussion we will analyze the theories of flow and anti-flow and their effects on the psyche of the human being in four parts. First, we will thoroughly define what flow and anti-flow are. Second, I have conducted two interviews to determine how flow and anti-flow effect the lives of two working professionals. The first interview with the human relations director at a local A. M. talk radio station, and the second, with a jazz guitar performance grad...
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Rock And Roll Jimi Hendrix
986 wordsJimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix perhaps no other rock-and-roll trailblazer was as original or as influential in such a short span of time as Jimi Hendrix. Widely acknowledged as one of the most daring and inventive virtuosos in rock history, Hendrix pioneered the electric guitar (he played a right- handed Fender Stratocaster his Electric Ladyupside-down and left- handed) as an electronic sound source capable of feedback, distortion, and a host of other effects that could be crafted into an articulate ...
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Sky With Diamonds Lucy In The Sky
1,654 wordsJohn Lennon's music reflected the life he led and the things in which he believed. Now Twenty years after his death, his music still speaks to people with great relevance. John Lennon, a member of the Beatles Was one of the greatest lyricists of all time. Even though he was cut down before his time, his lyrics remain as powerful and reflective today as ever. His enduring lyrics weave threads of his life, to create a beautiful tapestry of songs, which will endure and be sung for generations to co...
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Paul Mccartney John Lennon
941 wordsLennon/McCartney John Lennon and Paul McCartney are two of the greatest artists popular music has ever embraced. Their collaboration on early Beatles songs propelled the group to international fame. As the Beatles matured, however, the relationship between these two became more competitive than cooperative. They developed unique and surprisingly polar styles. In a 1980 Playboy interview John Lennon stated: You could say that (Paul) provided a lightness, an optimism, while I would always go for t...
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Bass Guitar C T
413 wordsLeslie Claypool Les Claypool Pioneers Leslie Claypool was born in Richmond, California on 9 / 29 / 63. He has lived in El Sobrante, California all his life. When he was about 15 he got his very first bass guitar. The bass that his mother bought him was a Carl Thompson 4 -string bass guitar. Carl Thompson is a guitar maker that is renowned for his extravagant looking basses, he is also known for the expensive and unique woods such as walnut or mahogany. Les played bass in his high school band and...
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