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Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac
1,447 wordsBorn on March 12, 1922, the youngest of three children in a French-Canadian family that had established itself in Lowell, Massachusetts, Jack Kerouac was by the age of ten already aiming to become a writer. His father ran a print shop and published a local newsletter called the Spotlight. Before long he began writing and producing his own sport sheet, which he sold to friends and acquaintances in Lowell. He attended both Catholic and public schools, and won athletic scholarships to the Horace Ma...
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Drowned In Barbecue Sauce Piles Of Rib Tips Pier
348 wordsOn a crowded Friday night, I found a lively spot with sweet smells and even sweeter sounds. Joe's Be-Bop Caf, located on Navy Pier at 600 E. Grande, is a Cajun, jazz-inspired restaurant whose atmosphere separated itself from the noisy shuffle of the pier. Upon entering the restaurant, I saw murals and collages on the walls that had a ' 50 s and ' 60 s style, and pictures of every jazz musician you can think of. The Skinny Williams Band was belting out fabulous music, while he crossed the room, g...
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563 wordsLOUIS ARMSTRONG TIMELINE Louis Armstrong's was born Aug. 4, 1901. He grew up in New Orleans and received his first music instruction in 1913 in a children's home. By 1915 he was sitting in with local bands. He went to Chicago to join King Oliver in 1922 and made his first records with Oliver the the next April ("Chimes Blues"). Though Chicago would be his base for the next 12 years, he went to New York for the first time in September 1924 to join Fletcher Henderson's band and record with various...
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Ethnic Diversity Global Perspective
858 wordsThe global perspective of music: we live in an increasingly smaller global village. With advance in worldwide transportation and communication and with increasingly mobile societies, it seems not only appropriate but also necessary to develop a global perspective of music. A global perspective of music is a sense of the lifestyles, traditions, values and the music of several nations and cultures throughout the world. An awareness of the diversity within our national boundaries that has contribut...
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Berry Gordy Father Of The Motown Sound
1,231 wordsBerry Gordy Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 28, 1929. He was the seventh born out of eight siblings. His parents migrated to Detroit from Georgia during 1922. They were part of a mass exodus of African Americans who left the South in the 20 's and traveled to northern cities in search of better economic futures. During that time jobs were plentiful in the factories, mainly the big four automotive plants that like, Chrysler, Ford, Chevrolet, and General Motors. Berry and Bertha Gord...
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Subordinate Role Subordinate Position
1,520 wordsHenrik Ibsen is a writer that uses literature to channel entertainment and express himself throughout the play, A Dolls House. He wrote the play during the transition from mythical and historical dramas to plays dealing with social problems. At the time that Ibsen wrote A Dolls House, the later 1800 s, society has created a niche for the woman as a housewife and social partner, lacking emphasis on love. This controversial play features a female protagonist seeking her individuality through reali...
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Band Jazz People
306 wordsThere is definitely a difference between seeing a live performance and listening to it on the radio or on a compact disc. Listening to live music is definitely a wonderful way to spend a Saturday night. I went to a jazz concert at the Bluebird. It was a beautiful experience. I thought it was a throw back to the days where television was in black and white. It was a very intimate setting between the band and the audience. The band was very small in size and was very good. The woman who I believe ...
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Complete Analysis Of The Starbucks Coffee Company
2,063 words... al 1995, specialty sales accounted for 10 % ($ 48. 1 M) of the Company's net sales. MAIL ORDER: The Company publishes a mail order catalog which offers its coffees, certain food items, and select coffee-making equipment and accessories. During fiscal 1995, mail order accounted for 3 % ($ 14. 4 M) of the Company's net sales. LICENSED AIRPORT STORES: Starbucks has entered into a development agreement that allows Host International, Inc. to operate Starbucks retail stores in multiple airport lo...
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Social And Cultural History And Culture
1,836 wordsBlues Music As A Vivid Reflection of The Black American Life And Culture Blues can be justly called the Black-American music. It reflects the history and culture of the blacks in America from the times when they were slaves till the present days. Translating the emotion into music, blues performers cry, hum, moan, plead, rasp, shout, and howl lyrics and wordless sounds while creating instrumental echoes of their emotions. This music is a rebellion against the white culture and religion against a...
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Visual And Audio Materials In Hip Hop Industry
1,746 wordsVisual and Audio Materials in Hip-Hop Industry Hip hop music and culture, once considered an American phenomenon, exists throughout the world today. In each cultural area, hip hop artists filter American and other foreign hip hop styles through their own local musical, social, and linguistic practices, creating unique musical forms. In this paper I will attempt to evaluate the visual and audio characteristics that contribute to the culture of hip-hop and produce the image of the aforementioned s...
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Maged Saleh Professor Ferguson Jazz Maged Saleh Professor Ferguson Piece
492 wordsDon? t worry, be happy Don? t worry, be happy was by Played by Bobby Mcferrin in the seventies. The in this piece the texture changes a lot as the work progresses. Every time the music would take a slower beat the texture would become thicker and the dynamic or the volume becomes lower. When the dynamic slows, one instrument would only be playing, and all at once when the tempo picks up more, and than three or more instrument would be playing. It seemed that when there are more than one instrume...
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2,750 wordsRap music as a musical form began among the youth of South Bronx, New York in the mid 1970? s. Individuals such Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash were some of the early pioneers of this art form. Through their performances at clubs and promotion of the music, rap consistently gained in popularity throughout the rest of the 1970? s. The first commercial success of the rap song? Rappers Delight? by the Sugar Hill Gang in 1979 helped bring rap music into the national spotlight. The 1980? s saw the co...
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Tariff Barriers Mass Production
1,621 wordsDid People In The Usa Become More Did People In The Usa Become More Prosperous In The 1920 S Explain Your Answer Did People In The USA Become More Prosperous During The 1920 s? Explain Your Answer After World War 1 the Americans who were run under a Republican Government decided to return to a policy of isolationism. The nine years that followed 1920 were often called the Roaring Twenties. It was a time when cheap cars, radios, refrigerators and many other advances in electrical equipment change...
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Strip Clubs Robert Louis
919 wordsJimmy Lips 10 / 14 Dance for Musical Theatre Research Paper: Inst. 2 Robert Louis Fosse 1927 - 1987 Robert Louis Fosse was born on June 23, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of a vaudevillian and appropriately enough was born into the theatre. As a child, the art of dance wasnt only used as a past time by young Fosse, but rather as a way of gaining attention from friends and family. From an early age he had already started studying ballet, tap and acrobatic dance. As Fosse grew up, his t...
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1,260 wordsThats the whole burden of this novel the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world so that you dont care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory -F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1924 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald fingered these thoughts into his typewriter one morning in 1924, upon writing his greatest novel and one of the most acclaimed literary works of all time, The Great Gatsby. The brilliant final draft of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgeralds cla...
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Langston Hughes Discovering Authors
689 wordsWhen Langston Hughes Fields 1 When writing, one may take into consideration his or her surroundings such as living environment and for family and friends. One may reflect on experiences from the past and present. All these things together form the writer s style. Because of traveling overseas and living in Harlem, Langston Hughes used illustrative words and different musical rhythms in his poems and stories to show the life of Negroes. Born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902, Langston Hughes life begu...
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Washington D C Langston Hughes
842 wordsLangston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri into an abolitionist family. He was the grandson of Charles Henry Langston. His brother was John Mercer Langston, who was the the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was selected as Class Poet. His father didnt think he would be able to make a living as a writer. His father paid his tuition to Columbia University for him t...
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Repeated Three Times Previously Mentioned
1,813 wordsMusic 265 -Phish Meghan Conley Music 265 - Rock Music Phish (featuring Trey Anastasio on guitar and vocals, John Fishman on drums and vocals, Jeff Holdsworth on guitar, and Page McConnell on keyboards and vocals), has often been referred to as the Grateful Dead of the 90 s and their fans have often been called the new generation of hippies. The band however, sees things differently. While the Dead's music has been known to fit easily into the Rock-n-Roll category of Rock music, its not that cut ...
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Turn Of The Century Robinson Crusoe
976 wordsWhitbread winners ring of absolute truth A book on China written by a man whose only experience of the country was a one-hour stopover at Hong Kong airport is one of two surprise winners of the Whitbread awards. Sid Smiths debut novel at the age of 52, Something Like A House, is set during Chinas cultural revolution, and is praised by the judges for its ring of absolute truth proving that several months in the British Library poring over Taoist tracts and accounts of peasant life can be just as ...
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