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Count Basie Bob Marley
1,580 wordsFor my week posing as professor for music history 10, I would like to discuss the meaning of and history leading up to the mid 90 s ska selection by Less Than Jake: Sugar in Your Gas Tank. Sugar in Your Gas Tank was released on Less Than Jakes 1996 album on Capitol records: Losing Streak. Although they had actually had many previous releases on independent labels, this was Less than Jakes first major label record. Previously only having an underground Indy following, being picked up by a major l...
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Juvenile Delinquency Youth Gangs
1,565 wordsThe Original law of the Illinois juvenile court defined a delinquent as: a child under the age of sixteen years who has violated any laws of the state, or any city or village ordinance. Under the common law, children between the ages of 7 and 16 years of could be dealt with as delinquent. Today in 37 states and in the District of Columbia, juvenile courts are initially responsible for all violations committed by youth under the age of 18. In ten states the age limit is 17 and in three states the...
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Heavy Metal T Shirt
1,030 wordsOh, so youre one of those people, she inquires, in a tone consisting of disdain and surprise, after telling her Im going to the Mudvayne and Ultraspank concert. She continues, so you get all dressed in leather and put in your nose ring to get ready, huh? I laugh, looking over my rather plain appearance of a Black Label Society t-shirt and jeans, wondering how many laughs I would get wearing leather and give a clearly sarcastic yeah answer. She looks clearly offended by my nature and explains tha...
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Peace Love Unity Rave Scene
3,527 wordsIntroduction What is a rave? This is a fundamental question that, in a way, I will attempt to answer in this paper, but I will never do it. Raving is a highly subjective experience. One person's best rave is another person's worst. Any attempt to analyze rave culture must recognize the highly personal factor of the experience. It is because of this fact that I start off my attempt to analyze rave culture with a series of quotes on the experience. .".. hardcore music being slammed through my body...
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The History Of Rave Music
1,005 wordsThe history of Rave Music is quite interesting. It has been around for decades. Some enjoy it, some dont. There is some conflict as to where Rave Music actually started. Some people, non-ravers most likely, ask what is Rave Music? Rave Music is made up of technologically advanced beats that are mixed with other beats to form music. Rave Music has a culture of its own, as so does any other music type. The history of Rave Music is hard to sum up, but here it goes... The controversy in Who started ...
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Peace Love Unity Style Of Music
415 wordsRaves are not just parties surrounded by total chaos and no rules. They are a really great experience. There is a whole culture surrounding raves. Have become a way of life for some people, they have there own music. And even there own way of thinking. We have a thriving rave culture, with a growing population. In fact raves are becoming a way of life for many people. If you get a flyer with anything with wards like love (spelt any way possible, ) sweat, house music, techno, smile, sauna, rhythm...
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Gateway Drug Crime Committed
899 wordsMany have experienced the negatives of marijuana in their lives and witnessed the problems of others. Marijuana is a harmful drug and should not be legalized! It is a gateway drug or also known as a stepping stone drug. Theory, suggest that the progression to more dangerous substances is inevitable. (Hanson) Many reasons have surfaced about why it should be legalized, government regulation, taxing purposes, and long and harsh sentences given to marijuana offenders. In addition, of all the reason...
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Death Metal Another Controversial Kind Of Music
657 wordsWe can say that the birth of Death Metal was inspired by cult thrash metal bands like Sodom, Destruction (both German), Slayer and Dark Angel in the USA. The sound was very deep and heavy, and the lyrics was again concerning controversial arguments like war, death, sickness, and religion. In 1986 Slayer's cult album Reign In Blood, an absolute masterpiece in metal, caused the increase of the following in extreme metal music, and, some years later the mixing of metal, hardcore and the need to go ...
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Beats Per Minute Back And Forth
1,232 wordsWhat is a rave? Raving is a highly subjective experience. One person's best rave is another person's worst. Any attempt to analyze rave culture must recognize the highly personal factor of the experience. Author Daniel Martin defines a rave as "a long period of constant energetic and stylistic dancing exhibited by a large group of people in a hot, crowded facility providing continuous loud House music and an accompanying strobe lit psychedelic light show" (78). But what effect does the rave scen...
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Punk Rock Punk Bands
1,072 wordsMrs. Barbara Simpson English Comp II 25 March 2000 The Origination of Punk Rock The time was in the mid-seventies, there was a void in the music industry that needed to be filled. This need for a new sound was aptly filled by punk rock, a new type of sound that had evolved from mostly rock and a little pop music. The focus of this paper is on punk rock and it's ample beginnings, early pioneers of the new sound, punk rock listener's cultural background and their ideas as a whole, bands influenced...
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Red Army Faction Terrorists Or Freedom Fighters
1,384 wordsTerrorism is an issue that is at the top of the world society's agenda. But terrorism is a difficult word to define. Many scholars have made valiant attempts to define it, however there definitions have often been too broad or too shortsighted. Even the American State Department has a definition that is not all together agreeable. One must hesitate when calling any group who opposes the establishment or anyone who engages in violence a terrorist (Hoffman 13). The people themselves do not believe...
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Capital Punishment Is A Necessary Deterrence In Society
941 wordsCapital Punishment Is a Necessary Deterrence in Society Capital punishment two words feared by many. Two words which are considered an eye-opener for the hardcore criminals. These words are controversially embedded in the society's mind. So what is capital punishment? Capital punishment means death sentence. That is, anyone found guilty of murder or some heinous crime is punished with death. However, is there really a need for capital punishment? Will capital punishment deter the society from co...
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Red Army Faction Terrorists Or Freedom Part 1
1,735 wordsRed Army Faction: Terrorists or freedom fighters Terrorism is an issue that is at the top of the world society's agenda. But terrorism is a difficult word to define. Many scholars have made valiant attempts to define it, however there definitions have often been too broad or too shortsighted. Even the American State Department has a definition that is not all together agreeable. One must hesitate when calling any group who opposes the establishment or anyone who engages in violence a terrorist (...
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Sentenced To Death Capital Punishment
936 wordsCapital punishment, two words feared by many. Two words which are considered an eye-opener for the hardcore criminals. Words that are controversially embedded in the society s mind. So what is capital punishment? Capital punishment means death sentence. That is, anyone found guilty of murder or some heinous crime is punished with death. But is there really a need for capital punishment? Will capital punishment deter the society from commiting suicidal crimes? Every human being has the right to l...
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Rave Scene Record Companies
2,332 wordsComputers and Music Over centuries past, music has seen leaps and bounds in the enhancement of theory, instruments, and recording arts. The first major leap was the invention of the piano in 1709 by Bartolomeo Cristofori. From that first major step came the introduction of electronic instruments short after the harnessing of electricity which came in the early 19 th century. Soon after that came recording and then on to synthesizers and eventually digital recording. As computers were introduced ...
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Hip Hop Culture Rap Music
1,018 wordsBorn Lawrence Parker in Park Slope, Brooklyn in the summer of 1965, the rapper left home at 14 to play basketball and read books free of the gaze of the authorities (his mother and the New York City public school system). He landed in a homeless shelter in the South Bronx, where he was dubbed Krishna by residents because of his interest in the Hare Krishna spirituality of some of the antipoverty workers. By the time Krishna met youth counselor Scott Sterling, he was also writing graffiti as KRS-...
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Banjo Tooie Mature Games Gameplay
202 wordsIts SAD to see all the mature gamers judge games on their licenses and graphics, rather than gameplay. All those people criticize Banjo-Tooie for being immature. Its one of the best games ever made, for your information. Graphically its the N 64 s best with super-crisp textures, real-time lighting, real-time shadow tracing and a awesome camera system. Nintendo/Rare games are for all ages, not for babies. The so-called mature games are just mediocre games, masked with FMVs and appealing violence....
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Jimi Hendrix Experience Rock And Roll
1,612 wordsYou re standing on stage playing a song you wrote, jamming with your buddies, or just sitting in your room, playing out your emotions and you feel it, a feeling that is so harmonious, relaxing, exciting, and purifying that it can only begin to be explained by the word awesome. This is music, and its history is just as amazing. From Classical to Blues to Metal, music styles have continued to evolve throughout human history. These changes in music styles nationally have affected music here at Gard...
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Wrong Doings Story
754 wordsAn Injustice For All In Sonata Allegro Form Wideman? s quotation from Brothers and Keepers could be interpreted to say a number of different things. The interpretation I could make is no person could explain the reason things are the way they are in life. In trying to come up with a logical answer they dwell on it and it becomes even more confusing. Afterwards they settle upon the conclusion that things happen for a reason and not in any kind of order. Wideman also claims that people do not have...
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Effects Of Steroids Word Of Mouth
1,754 wordsImagine this. The year is 1999 and the New York Jets are playing the Minnesota Vikings in the last Super Bowl of the twentieth century. It is late in the fourth quarter, the score is Jets 21, Vikings 20. The Vikings are faced with a crucial fourth and one with a minute, ten left to play in the fourth quarter. The Vikings decide it? s do or die and are forced to go for it. The teams come to the line of scrimmage and the quarterback starts his cadence. The ball is snapped and the quarterback hands...
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