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Avant Garde Civil War
996 words
John Perreault is a musician who lives in Upstate,
NY. He started appreciating music at an early age.
Banging on pots-and-pans, singing. His
grandfather, who was a professional musician, and
my supportive parents, drove his interest in
music. He was always in chorus. Then when the time
came, he took up the bass in fourth grade. He quit
the bass playing after three years and didn't do
anything musical. He took a few music classes, but
played nothing on the side. Then his grandfather
passed away i...
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Rolling Stone Magazine Language Learners
748 words
PROJECT 2 PLAN A COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITY FOR A
SECONDARY LEVEL CLASS UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC A
MONTRAL THE ESSENTIAL RECORDINGS OF THE 90 s This
activity is based on an article published in the
Rolling Stone magazine of May 13, 1999. This
article is about the 150 best recordings of
nineties. It consists of a short resume of each
record describing its musical influence on the
decade and on its listeners. For the fallowing
activity, this text as been reduced to 20
recordings (instead of a 150) that ar...
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Rock And Roll Ringo Starr
1,242 words
The Beatles were known as a rock and roll group,
but they were not just any old band. They changed
music around the world, as we know it. Between the
boys, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George
Harrison, and Richard Starkey, better known as
Ringo Starr, they had extraordinary talent
(History of the Beatles 1). They started what was
called the "British Invasion, " and some say that
the Beatles are the greatest musicians to ever
walk God's great earth. It all started in 1956,
when John Lennon starte...
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Tipper Gore Juvenile Delinquency
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... g. The Technical Report of the Commission on
Obscenity and Pornography stated: ... efforts to
restrict or censor have the psychological effect
of increasing the desirability of the material.
Increasing the difficulty of obtaining erotic
materials, harassing and punishing pornographers
and purveyors of pornography, setting minimum age
limits for the purchase of these materials, and so
on, may have the unwanted effect of increasing
interest in the materials, rendering them more
desirable, and ...
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Nuclear Family Family History
1,392 words
Since their inception in the 1860 s, family albums
have played an important role as the promoters of
familial ideology and treasures of familial
memory. Most family photograph albums in
containing a great variety of items, both
identified and unidentified, from different
periods and of varying quality, held together by
their collective identity with the family
(Schoeman, 1996: 8). The function of familial
photography is to fix perception and memory,
represent a method of preserving memories, doc...
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Esta Noche Tu Vendras Esta Noche Tu Group
1,022 words
Los Invasores de Nuevo Leon is a norteno band,
wherein the accordionist, Javier Rios initiated in
1978, in Monterrey, N. L. , Mexico, where the
accordion music is inseparable from the Norteno
tradition. However the group didnt started playing
professionally until 1980 when they obtained the
vocalist and acoustic guitarist, Lalo Mora. The
career of the Invaders, at the beginning was
harsh. In an interview with Mora he mentioned, At
the beginning the group had financial problems,
but with Gods ble...
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Los Angeles California Ozzy Osbourne
1,731 words
Randall William Rhoads was born on December 6,
1956 at St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica,
California. With one brother (Doug) and one sister
(Kathy), Randy was the youngest of three. When
Randy was 17 months old his father, William Arthur
Rhoads, a public school music teacher, left and
all three children were raised by their mother,
Delores Rhoads. William Rhoads would later
remarry, producing Dan and Paul, ... "half"
brothers to Randy. Randy started taking guitar
lessons around the age of 6 or...
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End Of The Year George Harrison
1,055 words
Probably 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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The Story Of Bob Marley And Wailers
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... ler quit the band to pursue solo careers. This
caused the band to change their name again and
this time to Bob Marley and the Wailers. The
departure of the two members created a hole in the
backing vocal section, this hole was filled and
then some by the I-Threes (Rita Marley, Judy
Mowatts and Marcia Griffiths) (The Story). That
summer the band started a new European tour. Two
of those shows were at the Lyceum Ballroom, both
shows were considered among the top of the decade.
Both shows were ...
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Backstreet Boys Sixty Nine
1,678 words
In a world full of imitations, the Backstreet Boys
are definitely not just another fabricated,
bubblegum-pop boy-band, but are a multi-talented
group of real musicians. With each Backstreet Boy
having his own unique experiences in such areas
as: acting, singing, modeling, and playing
instruments, it is obvious that it would add
flavor to their phenomenal voices, and lead them
to fame and fortune. "Honestly, looking at them
for the first time with their country, down to
earth, all American boy im...
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Number One Hit Madonna Released
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Madonna had affective millions of people with her
songs. Madonna has been in the music business for
over 20 years now. All of Madonnas albums had
religious and sexual symbolism. There are many
proofs that Madonna should be taken seriously as
an artist and also as an icon. To keep her style
up to date she would always come out with
different looks and different ways of dressing.
This was one of the reasons way she is where she
is right now. Madonna has helped move on the
styles from different tim...
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House Of The Risin Sun
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House of the Risin Sun In order to understand the
song House of the Risin Sun we need first to have
a short look at Bob Dylan and his music. Bob Dylan
was born in 1941 in Minnesota. He was a regular
child and he became interested in music only while
being in high school, when he learned to play
piano and guitar. From these basic musical skills,
Dylan constantly acquiring new knowledge and
experience in music has grown to be the master of
folk music in the period of rock expansion. It is
a big ac...
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Number One Hit Allen Unwin
2,609 words
Icons An icon can be defined in many ways. Some
might say he or she is a man or a woman who
himself / herself is remarkable, whether it be
through superhuman powers, or extreme experiences.
It is his nature which makes him or her to become
icon, as he / she takes part in things
unattainable to a normal person. An icon has a
huge impact on the society, because lot of people
attempt to become icons in some way too. Being an
icon means to be important and valuable for the
members of a society. Ther...
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Songs On The Album Alto Sax Davis
674 words
Miles Davis, from his beginnings as a
nineteen-year-old kid in 1945 New York City, to
his final days in the early 1990? s, is to be
considers one of the jazz? s best. The 1996 album
entitled, Bluing: Miles Davis Plays the Blues, the
engineers at Prestige Records bring Miles Davis
back to life. Packed with over 73 minutes and of
12 bar blues, Bluing brings nine great tunes of
Davis? together on one disk. Having been
originally recorded in the 1950? s, these nine
cuts take the listener through a d...
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Catch A Fire Quot And Quot
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Jamaica has produced an artist who has touched all
categories, classes, and creeds through innate
modesty and profound wisdom. Bob Marley, the
Natural Mystic who introduced reggae to European
and American fans still may prove to be the most
significant musical artist of the twentieth
century. Bob Marley gave the world brilliant music
and established reggae as major forces in music
that is comparable with the blues and rock&
rolls. His work stretched across nearly two
decades and still remain...
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Ed Sullivan Show Brian Epstein
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The 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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Three Lines First Three
783 words
Depeche Mode: Songs of Faith and Devotion
Originally released in 1993, Depeche Modes Songs
of Faith and Devotion was unveiled to a stunned U.
S. and U. K. audience. The band had undergone a
transformation of truly gothic proportions. Gone
were the short crew cuts, the sole use of
synthesizers, and the Gap image. In its place were
long and flowing Jesus-like hair, distorted
guitars and full drum sections, and a look that
some described as the heroine junky mode. Much to
the surprise of die-hard f...
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Elderly Woman Human Race
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Eddie Vedder Is A Vampire Although at first he may
seem to be just your average angst ridden lead man
for a popular rock and roll band, Eddie Vedder,
the vocalist and lyricist for Pearl Jam, may very
well be a vampire. Although it is impossible to
tell, everything points to his being an immortal.
An in depth analysis of his lyrics shows that
Pearl Jams second album, ? Versus? , has been used
by Vedder as sounding boards for the complex
emotions and change of perspective that come with
ones trans...
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Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze
791 words
The Jimi Hendrix Experience released its first
album in early 1967. Popular music had been
leaning towards psychedelics for a couple years
already and Are You Experienced? came out at about
the same time as the Beatles Sergeant Peppers
Lonely Hearts Club Band. Are You Experienced? far
exceeded the Beatles triumph in complexity,
capturing the essence of the late 1960 s culture.
Naturally the newer band did not share the
immediate success of the Beatles. But its staying
power has been testified to...
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Freedom Of Expression Type Of Music
1,234 words
If hes to be taken literally, then so is Britney
Spears invitation to hit me baby one more time,
says one article in Advocate Magazine. They are
speaking in reference to the rapper Eminem one
they heavily talked-about topic of music
censorship. What is music censorship? There is a
great deal of confusion (one everybody's part) as
to what freedom of expression is in the US, and
how it applies to music. Everybody knows that
there are radio stations, religious and community
groups, retailers, and r...
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