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Type Of Music Ten Minutes
1,216 wordsThe latest concert that I attended was the NEIU Jazz Ensemble. It was held on October 28 th, 1997 in the NEIU auditorium. This was my first time attending a Jazz concert. Therefore, I didnt know what kind of music to expect or any music that I was familiar to. This concert was a new experience for me. It was far different from a rock concert held in some big venue. The purpose of this concert was to give people a taste of the NEIU Jazz Ensemble. The heritage or the background of this concert was...
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20 Th Century Carnegie Hall
1,701 wordsBillie Holiday was one of the most famous jazz singers of the 20 th century. Billie Holidays innovative phrasing about her life experiences in her music makes her one of the most influential jazz lyricists of the 20 th century. The emotional intensity that she brought into the words she sang was always very memorable and sometimes almost scary; she often lived the words she sang. Billie Holiday was born Eleanor Harris in Baltimore, Maryland on April 7, 1915. She did not have a stable life. Her f...
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African Influence On American Dance
1,174 wordsAfrican dance has contributed many characteristics to dance in America. We see evidence of this in many aspects of dance today. Being such a diverse nation, America has the blessing of combining original dances from different cultures to create an amazing dance repertoire. American dance as we know would be completely different, if it werent for the Africans. African dance began with the different rhythms of the tribes. Its roots in America began with the slave trade. The American slave trade be...
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Mississippi River Jazz Music
827 wordsQuincy Troupe is world-renowned for his love of jazz music and for his poetry, which reflects that love. The rhythm and meter of his poems lend themselves easily to live readings, and have a very solid musical quality about them, reminiscent of the very songs that he has listened to his whole life. In his Snake-back Solo 2, he references several famous Jazz artists, including Louis Satchmo Armstrong and Miles Davis, two of the most famous jazz artists in history. The structure of this poem, when...
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Jazz Music Early 1900
772 wordsAfter reading the article on jazz dance, I had found out a number of interesting things that I hadnt known before. I thought it was a dance form that was fairly new, starting in the early 1900 s. I then found out that it actually pre-dates all the way back to the seventeenth century. I also thought income from the United States, when it really originated in Africa and was brought here by the slaves. The dancing and drumming was such a part of their lives; it was eventually continued by the slave...
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Early Twentieth Century F Scott Fitzgerald
2,519 wordsLouise Brooks and Josephine Baker In the 1920 s, a new and popular model of modern womanhood dominated the American cultural scene. Although not all American women of the early twentieth century would emulate the flapper model, that model quickly came to represent the youthful exuberance of the post-World War I period. According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author whose novels set a tone for the 1920 s, the ideal flapper, representing the ideal modern woman, was lovely, expensive, and about ninet...
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Words And Phrases Toni Morrison
2,080 wordsJazz by Toni Morrison Toni Morrison, a brilliant author of Jazz, has been immersed into a wonderful world of music since her very early childhood, which she spent in Lorain, Ohio. Morrisons mother, Ramah Willis, was a true musician, who was a jazz and opera singer and also played piano for a silent movie theatre. Toni was growing up listening to her mothers singing from Ella Fitzgerald and the blues to sentimental Victorian songs and arias from Carmen (Fuel 284). Who knows, may be the years that...
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Toni Morrison Morrison Toni
2,079 words... reminds the Morrisons style of switching from fragmented phrases to run-on, standard and complete sentences. In the same manner, jazz music can be different in its moods, structure, and sounding. Moreover, it seems that the most important idea of jazz is to surprise listeners, to exceed their expectations, to be experimental, rhythmic and harmonic. Morrison, having a very good feeling for the requirements jazz poses on all its imitators, tries to reach the same effect by unusual, non-standar...
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Early Twentieth Century F Scott Fitzgerald
2,530 wordsLouise Brooks and Josephine Baker In the 1920 s, a new and popular model of modern womanhood dominated the American cultural scene. Although not all American women of the early twentieth century would emulate the flapper model, that model quickly came to represent the youthful exuberance of the post-World War I period. According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author whose novels set a tone for the 1920 s, the ideal flapper, representing the ideal modern woman, was lovely, expensive, and about ninet...
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Helped To Shape Form Of Music
1,930 wordsThroughout history, music has made dramatic impacts on the way civilizations and communities function and behave. Likewise, the behavior and attitudes of people in a community add to the flavor and attitude of the music made within the culture. Examples of this sort of connection include the Baroque era in Europe, where the character of the common citizen and the music were very refined and structured, or in England during the 70? s, where the citizens and the music displayed anger and revolt ag...
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Duke Ellington Jazz Music
681 wordsWhat is Jazz? According to the dictionary, jazz is defined as, ? A kind of syncopated, highly rhythmic music originated by Southern blacks in the late 19 th century? (? Jazz? 232). But, everyone should at least agree that jazz is the mother of all music, and is referred to as the only art form originating in the United States (? History 101? 2). America was home to immigrants from all over Europe and beyond who wished to build a new life, or just needed to escape from the old. These people, ofte...
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Duke Ellington Jazz Musician
1,717 wordsThe Life of a Pioneer One of the greatest jazz composers that has ever lived is, arguably, Duke Ellington. Born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington D. C. in 1899. By the age of 17 was playing professionally. In 1923 he moved to New York City where he started recruiting people for his orchestra. He started off with an average jazz band of ten people but through the thirties and forties that number greatly expanded. He started playing in small nightclubs, theaters, and on the radio. His biggest...
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1920 And 1930 Harlem Renaissance
1,324 wordsDuke Ellington and the Harlem Renaissance: The term Harlem Renaissance refers to an artistic, cultural, and social time of writing about race and the African Americans place in American life during the early 1920 s and 1930 s. It is hard to put a specific time and date in terms of social criticism, protest and political advancements, because of the fact that it took a long time for it all to develop. Overall, the Harlem Renaissance was a time of African Americans expressing talent and ideas, and...
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Late 19 Th Century 20 Th Century
1,771 wordsUpon entering a modern record store, one is confronted with a wide variety of choices in recorded music. These choices not only include a multitude of artists, but also a wide diversity of music categories. These categories run the gamut from easy listening dance music to more complex art music. On the complex side of the scale are the categories known as Jazz and Classical music. Some of the most accomplished musicians of our time have devoted themselves to a lifelong study of Jazz or Classical...
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Form Of Music Style Of Writing
1,180 wordsThe Relationship of Jazz Music and Jack Kerouac There is a distinct relationship between jazz music and the Beat Generation, particularly Jack Kerouac. The writings of the beat generation were often influenced by the different styles of jazz. One certain style of jazz known as bop and bebop were the most influential of all forms on the beat generation. They were an improvised form of jazz that has been traced back to originating in Harlem in the early forties and fifties. A harmonically and rhyt...
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Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
1,458 wordsTHE LOST GENERATION AND THE JAZZ AGE IN THE WORKS OF HEMINGWAY AND FITZGERALD The post-World War I generation in America, where the war experiences left the country altered forever and the people emotionally barren is usually referred to as the Lost Generation. More specifically, the term is used for a group of American writers who came of age during the war and established their literary reputations in the 1920 s. The term embraces Ernest Hemingway, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, e....
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Late 19 Th Century 20 Th Century
2,826 wordsMusics Influence on society Music has been around for thousands of years. Music appeals to everyone. When was the last time you have heard someone say, I hate all music. ? Lately though music has been criticized for corrupting teens minds. Rap is being blamed for all the crimes and murders in cities all over America and heavy metal is being blamed for giving teens only dark images and thoughts in their minds. Although the media and public criticize rap and rock music and blame the music for infl...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Louis Armstrong
1,094 wordsTitle: The origin and growth of Jazz music The Jazz music of the twenties, comparable to the rock of the sixties and the disco of the seventies, was the sound of a new revolution. It was something that America had never heard before. The time came to be known the Jazz Age. F. Scott Fitzgerald named the era, Louis Armstrong dominated it, and the 1929 crash of the stock market ended it. This new music created a style filled with strong rhythms and syncopation, a sound that was a memory of the slav...
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Swing Era Cool Jazz
1,042 wordsThe Rise of Jazz Throughout this paper I will take you through some of the different styles and eras of jazz. Such styles as be-bop, cool jazz, dixieland, swing, and fusion emerged define jazz music. Along with these different styles there were important eras that molded jazz music, such eras as the golden ages, and the swing era. Jazz is a kind of music that has often been called the only art form to originate in the United States. The history of jazz began in the late 1800? s. The music grew f...
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20 Th Century Duke Ellington
3,213 wordsIn this research paper I will explore the origins and attempt to construct a loose temporal graph of the musical phenomenon known commonly as swing jazz. From its roots and derivative styles, I hope to prove that the assimilation of the black or Afro-American jazz music into the mainstream white culture of the early 20 th century was the cause of the sharp rise in the popularity of swing jazz. This boom of good will towards what could have only been known as black or Negro music was in itself a ...
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