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African American Culture Langston Hughes
1,328 wordsLangston Hughes is considered by many readers to be the most significant black poet of the twentieth century. He is described as... the beloved author of poems steeped in the richness of African American culture, poems that exude Hughes affection for black Americans across all divisions of region, class, and gender. (Rampersad 3) His writing was both depressing and uplifting at times. His poetry, spanning five decades from 1926 to 1967, reflected the changing black experience in America, from th...
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Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker
1,424 words... lly redefined the way to improvise in a song, and it is full of creative and unique musical ideas, also called "licks." Famous people such as the saxophonist Charlie Parker, the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and the drummer Max Roach created bebop during the 40 s and the Postwar Decades, which was definitely a big leap for jazz. This style of jazz is less restricted, and improvisation involved longer phrases, more choruses, and more emotions. Modal jazz, also called free jazz, has no rules at a...
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Louis Armstrong Big Band
563 wordsLOUIS ARMSTRONG TIMELINE Louis Armstrong's was born Aug. 4, 1901. He grew up in New Orleans and received his first music instruction in 1913 in a children's home. By 1915 he was sitting in with local bands. He went to Chicago to join King Oliver in 1922 and made his first records with Oliver the the next April ("Chimes Blues"). Though Chicago would be his base for the next 12 years, he went to New York for the first time in September 1924 to join Fletcher Henderson's band and record with various...
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Jazz Musicians Louis Armstrong
1,110 words... f music including popular music and the blues. It was has changed over the years and has many different sub-styles, such as Dixieland, swing, bebop, Afro- Cuban, cool, free, jazz, and fusion. In jazz the performers often improvises to create new or different sounds that add to the emotional expression of the song. Jazz musicians create their own version of the melody while they all know, and then they turn improvising around that tune. Sometimes jazz performers make up a complete new melody ...
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20 Th Century Carnegie Hall
1,701 wordsBillie Holiday was one of the most famous jazz singers of the 20 th century. Billie Holidays innovative phrasing about her life experiences in her music makes her one of the most influential jazz lyricists of the 20 th century. The emotional intensity that she brought into the words she sang was always very memorable and sometimes almost scary; she often lived the words she sang. Billie Holiday was born Eleanor Harris in Baltimore, Maryland on April 7, 1915. She did not have a stable life. Her f...
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Louis Armstrong Music One
388 wordsabout the discography SIDEMAN 1923 - 25 HOT 5 & 7 1925 - 28 STARDOM 1929 - 32 THE 30 'S 1932 - 42 WAR YEARS 1942 - 46 ALL-STARS 1942 - 56 PURE GOLD 1956 - 63 TWILIGHT 1963 - 71 Evolution of the All-Stars feedback credit where it's due other links to louis (c) 1999 scott johnson The Louis Armstrong Discography Most historians agree; when it comes to influential musicians in this century, one name stands above the rest. Not Gershwin or Porter, Lennon or Presley. It is, indeed, Louis Armstrong ...
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Louis Armstrong King Oliver
924 wordsKnown as the King of Jazz, Louis Stachmo Armstrong was one of the most important figures in early jazz. He was said to have defined jazz music. Only Charlie Parker comes close to having as much influence on jazz as Louis Armstrong. Armstrong was born on July 4, 1900 in New Orleans. He grew up singing on the streets of New Orleans at a young age and had a troubled childhood. At the age of twelve he was placed in the Waifs Home For Boys for firing a gun into the air. However, at this home for boys...
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Louis Armstrong George Gershwin
788 wordsGeorge Gershwin's The ultimate collection George Gershwin's The ultimate collection, is a compilation of Gershwin's greatest hits. The compilation is made out of two CDs; the first cd is Gershwin's pieces sung by different jazz singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and more The second cd, is Gershwins famous pieces taken from musical shows such as Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue, Cuban overture, Funny face and more. First Cd: The cd starts with the song Strike up the Ban...
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B Du Bois W E B Du
988 wordsHarlem Renaissance The Harlem renaissance was a time of creative ingenuity among blacks confined to the ghetto s of America by racism and an implied social class. In the Early 20 s black s had progressed far enough along where some didn t need to work 16 hour days to make a living. This, coupled with the coming together of lots of blacks in ghetto s, the exposure of some blacks to European whites who weren t racist like American whites, combined to raise the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of bla...
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Louis Armstrong Cool Jazz
648 wordsThe History Of Jazz The first jazz was played in the early 20 th century. The work chants and folk music of black Americans are among the sources of jazz, which reflects the rhythms and expressions of West African song. Ragtime, an Afro-American music that first appeared in the 1890 s, was composed for the piano, and each rag is a composition with several themes. The leading ragtime composer was Scott Joplin. The first improvising jazz musician was the cornetist Buddy Bolden, leader of a band in...
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Billie Holiday Louis Armstrong
633 wordsBillie Holiday Holiday Billie Holiday Billie Holiday was born April 7 th, 1915, in Baltimore. Her original name was Eleanor Fagan. Although her father, Clarence Holiday, was a guitar / banjo player in Fletcher Henderson s band, she didn t break into the music world until her late teens. After being signed by Columbia Records John Hammond in 1933 for her debut record. Holiday went on to work with Teddy Wilson, Buck Clayton and Lester Young, who gave her the nickname Lady Day. He also toured the w...
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Louis Armstrong Orleans Jazz
302 words2. List and briefly describe 4 important characteristics of the Blues -blue notes, a 12 note scale that is used in the blues that often combines notes in direct correlation to each other such as B and B flat. -improvisation, keeping the original melody but creating a new musical tone to the piece. -interpretation, in this sense one is not required to keep either the harmony or melody in a piece and the sound is left up to those playing it. -syncopation, the stressing of a weak or off beat to giv...
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19 Th Century Types Of Music
2,786 wordsJazz When it comes to music, most people dont say they like it. People say they like heavy metal, pop, rhythm and blues, or any other type of music, since they have their own preference to what type of music they like, not just enjoying the broad area of music. One of those types of music which many enjoy is jazz. Actually right now jazz is really big and popular in Europe, andis rising in its popularity in the USA through its many forms. Jazz does have many forms, so many that some people would...
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Stock Market Crash One Of The Most Important
1,314 wordsThe 1920 s was a huge decade for the phenomena known as " Jazz" . Due to the closing of the seaport in New Orleans, musicians were forced to travel up the Mississippi to find work. Two of the cities most affected by this move were Chicago and New York. Chicago was home primarily for New Orleans traditional music during the 1920 s. From this New Orleans style came four major types of jazz: Boogie-Woogie, Chicago Jazz, Urban Blues, and Society Dance Bands. Because of the ever-growing pop...
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Louis Armstrong Big Band
381 wordsLouis Armstrong Louis Armstrong was one of the most influential artists of the century. Armstrong influenced trumpeters as well as all jazz music, and a wide range of popular music. He is best known for helping to pioneer a style known as swing, after which sprouted rhythm-and-blues (R&# 038; B) music. He established the expressive possibilities of the young art form of jazz and set fundamental standards for future artists. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Armstrong grew up in poverty and did not...
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Louis Armstrong Jazz Musician
1,201 wordsLouis Armstrong Heroes are needed in the world to give people something to look up to, someone to be like. Louis Armstrong over came such adversities as poverty, a lack of good education, and racism to become one of the greatest jazz player not just of the 1920 s but of the 20 th century. Armstrong was one of the creators of Jazz and was one of the most popular entertainers from the 1920 s. Starting out at a young age he never knew that one day he would be such a popular jazz player and also not...
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Louis Armstrong King Oliver
621 wordsLouis Luis Armstrong Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong was the most influential person in jazz's history. He contributed greatly to the growth of jazz and was able to play in a variety of ways. His amazing and interesting life came from his straight talent for the music. He deserved every bit of fame he got simply because he was an incredible musician. Louis Armstrong was born in 1900 and raised by a poor New Orleans family. At twelve he was sent to reform school for firing a gun in the air on New...
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Louis Armstrong Japanese American
553 wordsBob Grotjohn Inada refuses to separate the internment from a broader American experience. In a poem that follows his " legends, " Inada insistently maps the internment onto the American landscape (here I think of recent efforts at turning the Manzanar camp into a national park). In " Concentration Constellation, " he draws imaginary lines from point to point on a map of the United States, each point being one of the ten internment camps, creating jagged scar, massive, on the ...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Louis Armstrong
1,094 wordsTitle: The origin and growth of Jazz music The Jazz music of the twenties, comparable to the rock of the sixties and the disco of the seventies, was the sound of a new revolution. It was something that America had never heard before. The time came to be known the Jazz Age. F. Scott Fitzgerald named the era, Louis Armstrong dominated it, and the 1929 crash of the stock market ended it. This new music created a style filled with strong rhythms and syncopation, a sound that was a memory of the slav...
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20 Th Century Duke Ellington
3,213 wordsIn this research paper I will explore the origins and attempt to construct a loose temporal graph of the musical phenomenon known commonly as swing jazz. From its roots and derivative styles, I hope to prove that the assimilation of the black or Afro-American jazz music into the mainstream white culture of the early 20 th century was the cause of the sharp rise in the popularity of swing jazz. This boom of good will towards what could have only been known as black or Negro music was in itself a ...
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