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Josie Changed Perspective Johns Death Josie Change
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Jazz Musicians Louis Armstrong
1,110 words... f music including popular music and the blues. It was has changed over the years and has many different sub-styles, such as Dixieland, swing, bebop, Afro- Cuban, cool, free, jazz, and fusion. In jazz the performers often improvises to create new or different sounds that add to the emotional expression of the song. Jazz musicians create their own version of the melody while they all know, and then they turn improvising around that tune. Sometimes jazz performers make up a complete new melody ...
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Sky With Diamonds Lucy In The Sky
1,171 wordsThe Beatles were one of the top bands in the sixties with over two hundred songs recorded (Artist Facts: The Beatles). Many Beatles songs were said to have a hidden meaning, often thought to be referring to drugs like LSD, such as in the songs Help and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. A few other songs like I Am a Walrus, I Call Your Name, If I Fell, I Am a Loser, Im So Tired, and many more, are said to have a second meaning as well (Cross). One particular song that is debatable as to whether ther...
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The Effect Media Has On Teen Violence
922 words"For the first time in human history, most of the stories about people, life, and values are told not by parents, schools, churches, or others in the community who have something to tell but by a group of distant conglomerates who have something to sell" (Osborn). This quote, which comes from "The Violence Formula: How to Analyze for Violence in TV, Movies, and Video, " written by Barbara Osborn, is a frightening comment about the state of affairs of our culture. The conglomerate storytellers ar...
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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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Baroque Period King George
1,385 wordsGeorge Frideric Handel was born on Febuary 23, 1865 in Halle, Germany. Halle is a city in upper Saxon, on the Sale rive about 150 kilometers southwest of Berlin. He was very interested in music at an early age. Although his father discouraged his interest in music, his mother provided alot of support for him, and he led a life of music. At the age of twelve George was the assistant organist at the cathedral of Halle. Although Handel was able to show that he could master multiple instruments, his...
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Human Nature Treat People
1,620 wordsMOON ECLIPSE Tonight there is moon eclipse. Tonight is as long and as full of yearning like every other night, since my father is gone. I am hearing the voices from a distance. It is getting harder as time passes by to remember; the faces, names, memories and distances. I am really far, but I am there. My hands are still empty. Life consists of millions of little pictures in my head; sad, happy, eventful and maybe empty. There is so much to live, taste, talk share with my father. Yet he is gone....
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Washington D C Cop Killer
2,195 wordsWinning The Cultural War Charlton Heston February 16, 1999 addressing the Harvard Law School Forum I remember my son when he was five, explaining to his kindergarten class what his father did for a living. My Daddy, he said, pretends to be people. There have been quite a few of them. Prophets from the Old and New Testaments, a couple of Christian saints, generals of various nationalities and different centuries, several kings, three American presidents, a French cardinal and two geniuses, includ...
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Lead Singer Band Members
454 wordsPearl Jam, Everclear, and No Doubt Almost everyone has a favorite band. People buy CDs and tapes to not only listen to the music that they like, but to support that band. There are many, many different types of music, and usually a certain band will fit into a specific type of music. I listen mostly to alternative / grunge music. And by coincidence the three bands Im going to talk about are all from the west coast. I am going to talk a little bit about three of my favorite bands in that category...
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J Alfred Prufrock Love Song Of J Alfred
1,258 wordsBoth Prufrock and Preludes are based in the same rootless world of sordid tedium. In Prufrock Eliot is conveying a theme a strong theme and is based heavily in the Persona of Prufrock himself. Preludes is a poem of changing moods, some subtle, some profound but this time conveyed primarily through diction and repetition. One theme of Eliot? s, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, is the exposure of the modern individual? s inability and refusal to address inadequacies that he sees in both him an...
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Edmund Wilson Writing Poetry
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Birds Of Prey Life And Death
893 wordsMarvell's Mistress Andrew Marvell is considered a cavalier poet. He writes seduction poems that represent characteristics of cavalier poets through use of clever, witty, and developed lyrics. Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is a seduction poem that contains these elements along with the use of rhyme, meter, imagery, and tone Marvell creates a seduction poem that argues the desire for sexual gratification with a distinct aggressive tone. To begin with the speaker in the poem is trying to convince h...
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Recording Industry Association Mp 3 Player
1,051 wordsAre MP 3? s a breakthrough in technology or are they just another bomb waiting to explode on us? Many people say they are good, while others say they are not just bad, but horrifying to musicians that want to make it to the top. MP 3? s are widely used by teenagers on their computers usually illegally, and their distributors are constantly being threatened by the producers of the music. Millions of dollars are being lost due to the Internet craze of the MP 3 technology. This is mainly because fe...
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Mariachi Vargas Mariachi Mariachi Music
694 wordsThe Music Appreciation: Mariachi Mariachi The French named mariachi, but the Coca Indians gave the original name in 1500 s referring to any musician. Mariachi sound is impacted by African influence known as SON. Rhythmic pattern altering between 3 / 4 and 6 / 8. Instruments of Mariachi In a complete Mariachi group today there are as many as 6 to 8 violins, 2 trumpets, and a guitar, which are all standard European instruments. Then there is a high-itched, round-backed guitar called the vihuela, w...
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Browning Dramatic Monologue
1,054 wordsRobert Browning, an English poet, was born May 7, 1812, to Robert browning Sr. , Sarah Anna Wiedmann Browning. Sarah Browning, from German-Scottish descent, was a musician, a lover of nature, and a devout evangelical Christian. She was the stronger of the two parents, and also guided Robert through his developmental stages. Mrs. Browning was a woman of common sense and stability. Browning? s sister Sarianna, who was born in 1814, inherited his mothers? qualities. Browning? s father was employed ...
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Radioactive Weasel Stage Band
1,422 words2 - 4 - 97 On My Time The best and worst two days of my life took place at Bogart's with my band Radioactive Weasel last month. We had practiced daily for near three years, and our group decided to pull together again and enter The Battle of the Bands. This was the first time we sparingly paid fifty dollars to perform anywhere. All the other competitions we had entered were mail in tapes and then wait for a response. We got out of bed at five in the morning, then raced to our drummers house. Loa...
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Saturday Night Live Rage Against The Machine
1,137 wordsRaging Against the Machine Imagine the world without music. Or imagine a world where we are told what to play, what to sing and even what we may listen to in the privacy of our own homes. That world already exists. A very politically charged band known as Rage Against Machine is one band out of thousands that has run into problems with the explicit nature of their music. To make a statement, Rage Against The Machine (RATM) had hung two upside-down American flags from their amps. Seconds before t...
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Bob Dylan Drug Dealer
1,029 wordsMr. Tambourine Man Bob Dylan Chorus Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me I? m not sleepy and there is no place I? m going to Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me In the jingle jangle morning I? ll come following you Though I know the evening? s empire has returned into sand Vanished from my hand Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping My weariness amazes me, I? m branded on my feet I have no one to meet And the ancient empty street? s too dead for dreaming ->CHORUS Tak...
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Cultural Beliefs Song Lyrics
390 wordsThere has been a huge controversy about various types of art, such as performance, visual, fine, liberal, applied, and graphic arts, and what different affects they each have on society. Many say that certain types of art, such as song lyrics have a negative affect on society, promoting the use of drugs, profanity, and violence. However, some say that other types of art such as paintings, often respond to human suffering in a positive way, inspiring child labor laws, and changing idealistic atti...
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White Light Long Run
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