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Alexander Graham Bell Nursery Rhyme
544 wordsConcert Review # 2 On May 18, at 7: 00 pm, I attended Alexander Graham Bell Public School s Spring Concert. It was their first concert since their opening earlier this year in January. It consisted of 3 choirs: The Primary Choir, Junior Choir, and Intermediate Choir. There were also 2 bands, the Recorder Band and the Intermediate Band. Spring was the obvious theme of the concert for the gym was decorated spring like. Paper butterflies and flowers garnished the gym walls. Bird like sounds welcome...
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Martin Luther King Type Of Music
6,354 wordsBy 1945, nearly everyone in the African American community had heard gospel music (2). At this time, gospel music was a sacred folk music with origins in field hollers, work songs, slave songs, Baptist lining hymns, and Negro spirituals. These songs that influenced gospel music were adapted and reworked into expressions of praise and thanks of the community. Although the harmonies were similar to those of the blues or hymns in that they shared the same simplicity, the rhythm was much different. ...
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Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
1,968 wordsMaya Angelou is often labeled many things. Feminist writer, activist, filmmaker, poet, singer, actor, and storyteller. She learned French, Italian, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, Arabic, and Fanti. Marguerite Ann Johnson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928. Angelou acquired the first half of her pen name from her brother, Bailey Junior, whose babyish chatter transformed my sister into Maya. In 1931, Maya and Bailey were dropped off by train from Long Beach, California, to Stamps, Arkansa...
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Oral Tradition Blues Songs
3,519 wordsStephen E. Henderson If the poet presents the blues through indirection in " Cabaret, " in " Memphis Blues" he presents them through the matrix of the oral tradition which helped to shape their growth. The poem partly draws upon the traditional notion of " preaching the blues" found in both music and oral literature, but significantly it is not a parody of the sermon but a brilliant exploration of the song-sermon form in which the blues are historically and formally...
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Furious To Behead Caught The Knees Of Odysseus Phemios
792 wordsDuring the Odyssey, many singers are mentioned. They told stories of the past and the stories about the gods to entertain the household they were singing for. Singers were well respected because they had a divine gift from the Muses. Phemios and Demodokos are two examples of singers in the poem. Phemios was a singer in the house of Odysseus. While Odysseus was away in battle and his journey home, Phemios was made to sing at Odysseus s house by Penelope s suitors. A herald put the beautifully wro...
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