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African American Culture Rhythm And Blues
576 wordsBrandi L. Robinson Soc 200 Tele course July 3, 2000 Writing 4 / 1 Culture is the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought typical of a population or community at a given times. (Webster? s II New College Dictionary pg. 274) Culture is also the modes of thought, behavior, and production that are handed down from one generation to the next by means of communication interaction-through speech, gestures, writing...
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Surround Sound Home Entertainment
1,314 wordsDECIPHERING SURROUND SOUND FOR HOME THEATER In recent years there have been many advancements in the world of home entertainment, arguably the most popular of these being the inset of theater quality Surround Sound at home. The dramatic growth and popularity of surround sound has spawned more and more companies trying to get their piece of the action. The obvious advantage of this competition is constantly advancing technologies and great variety in products that span every price point and budge...
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White And The Seven Dwarfs Snow White And The Seven
1,077 wordsA Pioneer in Entertainment Film: Walt Disney During a 43 -year Hollywood career, which spanned the development of the motion picture medium as a modern American art, Walter Elias Disney was a pioneer and innovator, and the possessor of one of the most fertile imaginations the world has ever known. His creations set forth a foundation in the realm of animated entertainment through the use of modern applications and ingenious techniques. As an ambitious animator, Walt Disney began his career makin...
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U S Department Department Of State
699 wordsA man with brown eyes, and black hair, weighing 162 pounds, at five feet nine inches tall, and winner for the best trumpeter of 1956 in the Down Beat poll must be Dizzy Gillespie. Dizzy was born on October 21, 1917 as John Birks Gillespie from Cheraw north Carolina. He was the ninth and last child of John and Lottie Gillespie. Dizzy was given early instrumental training by his father, who was the teacher and director of a local band. This in turn meant there was many instruments in their home. D...
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Anthony And Johanna Sweeney Todd Mrs
336 wordsSweeney Todd is by no means a conventional musical; it takes several forms of music and theater and artfully places them together. Sondheim very effectively transports the audience back to Victorian England for a mad waltz with murder, mayhem and meat pies. He also utilizes his skill as a choral composer to write some truly fascinating ensemble pieces accompanied by a very intricate plot with many elements carefully layered. There are several important thematic elements in this carefully written...
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Heavy Metal Metal Band
580 wordsAnarchists of Good Taste What do you think of when I say this for a band name, Dog Fashion Disco? You never heard of them, have you? There a Five piece band from Washington DC, who are signed with Spitfire Records. Their lineup consists of Jeff Siegel / keyboards , Stephen Mears / bass , Tod Smith / vocals /guitar, John Ensminger / drums , and Greg Combs / guitar . Their new CD, Anarchist of Good Taste, was produced by Drew Manzurek and was released on March 6, 2001. Their type music is a genre ...
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Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartets
762 wordsBeethoven BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van (1770 - 1827) The composer of some of the most influential pieces of music ever written, Ludwig van Beethoven created a bridge between the 18 th-century classical period and the new beginnings of Romanticism. His greatest breakthroughs in composition came in his instrumental work, including his symphonies. Unlike his predecessor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, for whom writing music seemed to come easily, Beethoven always struggled to perfect his work. Ludwig van Beethov...
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Edgar A Poe John Allan
601 wordsEdgar Allan Poe, son of Actress Eliza Poe and Actor David Poe Jr. , born 19 th of January 1809, was mostly known for his poems and short tales and his literary criticism. He has been given credit for inventing the detective story and his psychological thrillers have been influences for many writers worldwide. Edgar and his brother and sister were orphaned before Edgar's third birthday and Edgar was taken in to the home of John and Fanny Allan in Richmond, Va. The Allan's lived in England for fiv...
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Master Symphonist Music Beethoven
678 wordsLudwig van Beethoven was, and remains today, an Olympian figure in the history of classical music. His influence on the last 150 years of music is unequalled; while general a member of the Classicist fold, he was in fact the first Romantic, and pre-figured virtually all music that followed the Romantic era as well. Perhaps no other composer in history wrote music of such exhilarating power and expressiveness; certainly no other composer did so against greater odds. Beethoven was born in Bonn in ...
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African Americans Black Americans
646 wordsElizabeth Taylor Greenfield Typically, Black Americans have reached their most noted fame through their talents in music and sports; although, we have been taught the impact of individuals like Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the history of America. Movies have been produced that reinforce our knowledge of the history of blacks: Roots gave us an in-depth look into slavery; Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored People gave us a deeper understanding of t...
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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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Louis Armstrong King Oliver
924 wordsKnown as the King of Jazz, Louis Stachmo Armstrong was one of the most important figures in early jazz. He was said to have defined jazz music. Only Charlie Parker comes close to having as much influence on jazz as Louis Armstrong. Armstrong was born on July 4, 1900 in New Orleans. He grew up singing on the streets of New Orleans at a young age and had a troubled childhood. At the age of twelve he was placed in the Waifs Home For Boys for firing a gun into the air. However, at this home for boys...
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Dizzy Gillespie Key West
597 wordsEarly Fats Navarro Fats Navarro Early Background The 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 ...
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Marilyn Manson Youth
1,263 wordsNothing is Forever Generation X is the term used to describe and define the generation born after 1970. Although it is given as being this age group, Generation X is more of a mind set, than an age. Described as lacking morals, ethics, and diligence, elder generations look down on Xers as if they were willfully deceitful. While truth may lie in some of these accusations, the roots extend far deeper. Generation X lacks a perception of permanence, which causes problems when functioning in the real...
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Louis Armstrong George Gershwin
788 wordsGeorge Gershwin's The ultimate collection George Gershwin's The ultimate collection, is a compilation of Gershwin's greatest hits. The compilation is made out of two CDs; the first cd is Gershwin's pieces sung by different jazz singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and more The second cd, is Gershwins famous pieces taken from musical shows such as Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue, Cuban overture, Funny face and more. First Cd: The cd starts with the song Strike up the Ban...
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Ed Sullivan Show Mother
1,194 wordsA mother? s love for her children is supposed to be something that never dies. The problem is, this? love? can be expressed in many ways. Sometimes, the love is shown in such a way that there is no doubt that this woman would do anything for her offspring. Sometime, this love can be viewed, as a way that that the mother is trying to mold her daughter into what she believes is the? right? way to behave. Other times, the mother is trying her best to make sure that her child is doing HER best. Thes...
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Gwen Harwood Poetic Devices
1,105 wordsGwen Harwood Gwen Harwood is a technically versatile poet, deeply interested in the materials of her art? in the poetic form, sounds, images, structures, voices and musical possibilities. Long After Heine and The Flight of the Bumble Bee use each of these poetic devices extensively, appealing to all of the readers senses in order to create meaning. In The Flight of the Bumble Bee meaning is created by the poetic devices and affirmed by the characters. The stanza? s and lines mimic the bumble bee...
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Human Mind Love Song
1,180 wordsMusic was born in order for people to express their inner most emotion of which language could try to, but not fully describe. In having this ability to express raw emotion, I believe music is a form of language. Speech expresses passion only by means of the ideas to which the feelings are linked, as if by reflection. Musical sound and gesture reach the heart directly without any deviation... Music cannot be meta lingual, because a song cannot say specifically what the language in music is. I be...
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Romeo And Juliet Piano Concerto
1,642 wordsPeter Ilyich Tchaikovsky is the author of six symphonies and the finest and most popular operas in the Russian repertory. Tchaikovsky was also one of the founders of the school of Russian music. He was a brilliant composer with a creative imagination that helped his career throughout many years. He was completely attached to his art. His life and art were inseparably woven together. I literally cannot live without working, Tchaikovsky once wrote, for as soon as one piece of work is finished and ...
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Deductive Argument Aggressive Behavior
712 wordsPunk is a term applied to a child or teenager who acts in an antisocial way. Punk music is a form of rebellion, and it turned against all other musical forms and influences at its time of creation. Punk music is as much cultural as it is musical. It is anarchic, against society, and against everything in established order. Patrick Goldsteins article, Violence Sneaks into Punk Scene, is about one mans observation of the experiences with violence and aggressive nature of youths rebellion. In the a...
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