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Martin Luther King Jr World War Ii
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Spike Lee Director Producer
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1,172 wordsFrom cool jazz to Chicago blues, gospel to R&B, reggae, and gangsta rap. For a century, African-Americans, Blacks, Negro's and or Niggas, or (what ever label or category is decided this millennium), have been in the vanguard of recorded music in every style imaginable. Rap's origins stretch far back to African oral tradition; it has a more immediate predecessor in the spoken-word expressionism of 60 's activists like the Last Poets, or Le Roi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka), who performed ac...
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1,065 wordsBlack Music in America: A History Through Its People Tahirah Carter by James Haskins Intro to Music I have definitely learned allot about the Evolution of American Music in this class. I found it to be very intriguing. So when I was faced with the chore of deciding which book I would do my report on, I chose Black Music in America by James Haskins. This book gave a detailed account of not only the music genres but its performers. We already know that American music is made up of music from many ...
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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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American Slavery And Entertainment
1,138 wordsAmerican Slavery and Entertainment For the American slaves entertainment did not have the same sense it has to people in the 21 st century. The legislation produced by the white slave-holders never gave the slaves an opportunity to fully express themselves from the religious and cultural prospective. It was extremely difficult for the slaves to retain something that was purely African. So they started to sing songs and compose poetry. Later, when some of them became free and educated, they also ...
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Langston Hughes Vachel Lindsay
888 wordsResearch Paper on "Langston Hughes" Langston Hughes (1902 1967) is an American poet, short story writer, playwright, novelist and columnist. His name is associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Langston Hughes was born in a small town Joplin, Missouri. He spent almost all his childhood in Lawrence, Kansas. During his youth the poet travelled across the Middle West and South America. He attended Columbia University (New York), but had to leave the university because of racial prejudice. Hughes wor...
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Catherine Zeta Jones Director Rob Marshall Chicago
546 wordsThe 1920 's in Chicago. The city is rife with illegal booze, jazz clubs, and corruption. Roxie (Renee Zellweger) is a chorus girl who dreams of being a star. One day she shoots her lover in a rage at his betrayal. In prison she meets Velma (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who was Chicago's most celebrated showgirl until she shot and killed two people. Velma has retained the city's most successful defense lawyer, Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), who never fails to produce acquittals for women indicted for murd...
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1,647 wordsHistory of Harlem's Architecture There are a lot of various controversial statements about Harlem, this community has always been considered somewhat dangerous by the white inhabitants of New York, who were unwilling even to walk through it sometimes. However, the history of Harlem is rather interesting, there were a lot of events, which influenced the lifestyles of Harlem's inhabitants and also had a profound impact on the countrys history as a whole. The history of Harlem's architecture is clo...
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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
1,229 wordsThere have been many great authors to this date in history, as we know it. In my lifetime, J D Salinger is one of the most famous and powerful authors I read. J D Salinger, one of the worlds most influential and reclusive authors (Brooks Richard, The Sunday Times pg 3) states Richard Brooks from The Sunday Times. One of Salinger's greatest achievements was the novel The Catcher in the Rye. I heard about he novel in numerous occasions. It was even mentioned in films such as Conspiracy Theory in w...
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Rest Of His Life Tender Is The Night
614 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for his novels The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night, both of which depicted disillusion with the American dream of self improvement, wealth, and success through hard work and perseverance. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fitzgerald was of mixed Southern and Irish descent. He was given three names after the author of the Star Spangled Banner to whom he was distantly related. In 1913, Fitzgerald entered Princeton University, but h...
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Dizzy Gillespie Key West
596 wordsThe story begins in Key West, Florida where Theodore " Fats" Navarro was born of mixed Cuban-Black-Chinese parentage on September 24, 1923. His musical training began early with piano lessons at age six, but he did not start taking music seriously until he took up the trumpet at age thirteen. He became good during his high school years. He also played tenor saxophone and played briefly with Walter Johnsons band in Miami. Apparently Fats did not care much for Key West. He was once quote...
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Style Of Writing Jack Kerouac
801 wordsMartin, William 2 - 14 - 97 Charters, Ann. Kerouac: A Biography. New York: St. Martin s Press, 1959, 1994. 419 pp. Jack Kerouac Kerouac: A Biography, helps to explain how Jack Kerouac, the founder and most important member of the Beat movement, was influenced by the rapidly changing culture of the 1950 s, as well as, how Kerouac ignited a social and literal revolution in America, from which the Beatniks and Hippies emerged. All of Kerouac s books drew public attention due to Kerouac s originalit...
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Mother To Son Langston Hughes
723 wordsBibliography In Langston Hughes LANGSTON HUGHES Bibliography In 1902, Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri. He grew up in many different places such as Kansas, Illinois, and Ohio. His birth given name was James Mercer Langston Hughes. Later he dropped the first two names. Mary Patterson Leary Carrie Mercer Langston Hughes, Langston s mother, was a schoolteacher. Langston s father, James Nathaniel Langston Hughes, was never around. Langston mainly lived with his mother. When Langston was ...
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Play Ska Music Derived From The Characters Tantra
968 wordsMephiskapheles Most people wouldnt think that medieval myths and modern music have much in common. However, to a certain extent they do share at least one thing in common, and it is the bandMephiskapholes, a play on words for Mephistopholes, a mythological deity. To understand Mephistopholes and how he relates to the band in question, one must understand his role in German mythology. Mephistopholes is always an evil character, and is often compared to a devil or Satan. The most popular reference...
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889 words1920 s Culture and Wild Young People The roaring 20 s produced a new culture marked by its youth and consumerism that often clashed with the traditions of older generations. Social values began to change, as self expression emerged as a prized value by youth. Women s roles changed from the traditional restrained Victorianism of the past. Views of work and who worked changed. Consumerism gave birth to an expansion of mass entertainment and leisure activities. The restraint of the past combined wi...
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