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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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End Of The Year George Harrison
1,055 wordsProbably the most popular, influential and enduring rock group of all time, the Beatles almost single-handedly reshaped rock 'n' roll from a genre of throwaway singles by faceless stars to an artistic medium with recognizable images and idols. The Beatles placed the emphasis on a group, rather than a single individual. They also set an example for all rock acts to follow with their strong sense of self-determination, going against their record company and management on many issues, even refusing...
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Music Ethnography Of Jazz Culture In Charlottesville Virginia
1,309 wordsThe lights dim and slowly fade to a cool blue glow that covers the stage. The drum set waits facing in towards the rest of the instruments. Its signaling to the others as if it is time to play; reflecting greens and oranges off the symbols that hang motionlessly above the set. Across from the drums an electric keyboard is perched on top of a slender metal stand. Its plugged into its amplifier but not on yet although it seemingly know exactly what it is about to play. The bass stands against the ...
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How To Make Sandblasted Signs
633 wordsI am going to tell you how you can make a sandblasted sign. The only necessary tools you need are: bass wood, or red wood, rubber masking, spray glue, exact knife, sand paper, paint (which most of these items you can find at your local hardware store). Also you need to know someone in your community who has a sandblasting machine to sandblast your sign. You will also need a design for your board. (It can be your name, or a symbol of what ever you want it to be NIKE, STARTER, etc. ) Now that you ...
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Irish Bagpipes Brian Boru Pipe
1,568 wordsIrish Bagpipes (Brian Boru pipe) The bagpipes have been a huge part of Irish music for many years. Today the bagpipe is synonymous with Scotland, but the pipes really came from Ireland. The earliest bag pipes date back to 4000 B. C. in the Middle East, where a bagpipe is found in Chaldean sculptures. This evidence shows it is ancient, certainly as old as the harp and nearly as old as the drum. Greeks, Egyptians and Romans all marched to the sound of the pipes to battle. As for Ireland, a seventh...
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U S Supreme Court U S District Court
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Order To Make Nineteenth Century
1,073 wordsCeltic music is a fanciful term which expresses a world-view or record-shelf category rather than actual links between music genres. More specifically the term Celtic has come to apply to easy-listening mood music with dreamy, non-specific but Irish/Scots flavour, marked as relaxing and evocative. The origin of Celtic music comes from the roots of ancient Celtic people - a group of Iron Age "barbarian" tribes with common language and culture that inhabited vast territories of Europe. The Celtic ...
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Order To Achieve Charismatic Leadership
1,129 wordsLeadership Students name University Leadership Understanding various types of leadership is very important, as it leads to the leadership development. The paper dwells on four major types of leadership, such as transformational, transactional, charismatic, and visionary leadership styles. The term transformational leadership was first coined by J. V. Downtown in 1973 and first introduced by James Burns in 1978. It is generally defined by Burns as the leadership style that occurs when one or more...
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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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Ed Sullivan Show Brian Epstein
1,055 wordsThe The Beatles The Beatles The Beatles started out in the British city, Liverpool where music was a way of life for many people. The Beatles were preceded by a John Lennon fronted band called the Quarry men. The group invited a 15 year old boy named Paul McCartney to see them perform a show. The then 16 year old John Lennon took to McCartney, that? s when a unique and amazing song writing partnership began. The Quarry Men ended up falling apart at the seams. John Lennon and Paul McCartney kept ...
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Duke Ellington Jazz Music
681 wordsWhat is Jazz? According to the dictionary, jazz is defined as, ? A kind of syncopated, highly rhythmic music originated by Southern blacks in the late 19 th century? (? Jazz? 232). But, everyone should at least agree that jazz is the mother of all music, and is referred to as the only art form originating in the United States (? History 101? 2). America was home to immigrants from all over Europe and beyond who wished to build a new life, or just needed to escape from the old. These people, ofte...
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Charlie Parker At Storyville Parker At Storyville Set
571 wordsCharlie Parker at Storyville The set by Charlie Parker, at Storyville is a perfect example of bop or bebop. It fits almost all of the criteria we use to define bop. These criteria include, but are not limited to: fast tempo, display of instrumental virtuosity, complex melodies and harmonies, an unresolved character, highly syncopated and masterful improvisations. These were all shown throughout this set. The compact disc I chose is actually a compilation of two different live sets 6 months apart...
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Western Concert Choir Elements Of The Choir Voices
804 wordsAfter parking out in the wilds of the Western parking-lot system I managed to hike a few miles through the wind and rain to the PAC on a stormy November 9 th in Bellingham. Having shaken myself off I found a comfortable seat in the upper deck and settled in to enjoy the warmth and music of the evening. Minutes after I sat down the choir filed in to form a semi-circle around the conductor. Everyone was dressed up in black and looked striking for the evenings performance. The evenings performance ...
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Heavy Metal Metal Band
580 wordsAnarchists of Good Taste What do you think of when I say this for a band name, Dog Fashion Disco? You never heard of them, have you? There a Five piece band from Washington DC, who are signed with Spitfire Records. Their lineup consists of Jeff Siegel / keyboards , Stephen Mears / bass , Tod Smith / vocals /guitar, John Ensminger / drums , and Greg Combs / guitar . Their new CD, Anarchist of Good Taste, was produced by Drew Manzurek and was released on March 6, 2001. Their type music is a genre ...
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1,940 wordsGustav Holst: The Planets Suite Music derived from astrology is surprisingly rare. The ancient Greek philosophers, whatever their intellectual attitudes towards astrology may have been, were certainly not ignorant of astrological teachings and ideas. It was they, after all who put forward the idea of the Music of the Spheres, the idea that these vast objects twirling around and whirling through space, must have hummed a tone as they went along their courses, much as a ball spun on a string will ...
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Isn T T Feel
488 wordsI have read Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou. I enjoyed this poem. I think that it has a positive message, and people can relate to it. This poem is really pretty. The rhythm flows beautifully throughout the entire piece. I think this is a good poem for people who are not very familiar with poetry. The beat is easy to find, but it isn? t too simple. Many times, I have read poems in which I have difficulty finding the rhythm, or the rhythm isn? t consistent through the whole poem. I also like the...
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Radioactive Weasel Stage Band
1,422 words2 - 4 - 97 On My Time The best and worst two days of my life took place at Bogart's with my band Radioactive Weasel last month. We had practiced daily for near three years, and our group decided to pull together again and enter The Battle of the Bands. This was the first time we sparingly paid fifty dollars to perform anywhere. All the other competitions we had entered were mail in tapes and then wait for a response. We got out of bed at five in the morning, then raced to our drummers house. Loa...
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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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Bongo Drums Tenor Drum Played
389 wordsDrums are among the oldest musical instruments. The best known of percussion instruments, they are found throughout the world and in a great variety of shapes and sizes. A drum normally consists of a skin or other membrane, called a head, which is stretched over an enclosed space or over one or both ends of a hollow vessel. Exceptions include the African slit drum, made from a hollowed-out tree trunk, and the Caribbean steel drum, made from a metal barrel. Drums are usually played by the hands o...
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Uncontrollable Mass Of People Bass And Drums Band
328 wordsRecalling a Place I walked up to the Euclid Tavern and noticed a huge pink fluorescent sign displaying the word liquor above the doorway. I opened the graffiti covered door and was immediately overwhelmed with the stench of cheep beer and cigarette smoke. I looked to the right of me and noticed an enormous bar, stretching about 100 feet with people crowded around every stool. Directly in front of me was a long hallway that led to an uncontrollable mass of people. To my left was a stage with a ve...
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