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Ian Moore Left Wanted To Be The Man Dylan
645 words
When I was in eighth grade, I first heard Bob
Dylan on the radio. While randomly switching
stations, I came across Like A Rolling Stone
playing loud and clear. Instantly, I was a fan. I
began to collect everything I could. My father,
seeing my new found interest, decided it would be
the fatherly thing to do to support me. So for my
fifteenth birthday, he bought me two tickets to
see Bob Dylan in concert when he came through
Austin. I couldnt believe it. I was so excited to
go, I had forgotten th...
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Bob Marley Political Independence
644 words
John Ent. & Terminus presents The Legendary
Wailers The Legendary Wailers performed African
Herdsman on Tuesday, September 14, 1999. This
particular song promotes black equality and
political independence, which is a primary focus
of African American Psychology. Can't see the
right roads, when the streets are bend The old
slave man, might grind slow, but it grinds fine,
yeah African herman, why linger on, just
concentrate, 'cause heaven lives on Retired slave
man, will look with a scorn, with a ...
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Native Americans Medicine Man
526 words
The movie Geronimo: An american Legend is an
excellent piece of cinematography. Jason Patrick
and Robert Duvall, as usual provide the more with
memorable characters. The movie is shown trough
the eyes of Lt. Britton Davis (Matt Dillon) who is
sent to assist Lt. Carles Gatewood in Geronimo's
(Wes Studi) surrender. Geronimo is then placed in
the San Carlos reservation. A dispute between a
the military and the indians results in an indian
massacre and Geronimo flee's fron the reservation.
Geronimo ...
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Playing Video Games Made Me Feel
1,281 words
The sun sets at about quarter to six. Kids begin
to come out of their houses like bats come out of
their caves, ready to start playing something,
anything that would come to mind. This is how my
barrio was when I was growing up. I have lived in
Juarez all my life and the only recall of a barrio
I have is just before coming here to live in El
Paso. After coming to El Paso at about the age of
twelve, I have never experienced that same feeling
of closeness my barrio made me feel. Coming home
from s...
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Supreme Court Women Rights
886 words
Abigail Adams was the wife of one president and
wife of another. She was not just a mother and a
wife, she was also very concerned with politics.
Abigail often corresponded with her husband
through letters, as they were often separated. The
most famous of these letters was entitled Remember
the Ladies. In this letter, Abigail advocated
women's rights to her husband. She urged him to
push the removal of legal codes which
discriminated against women, lift laws that denied
women their property righ...
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Ultimate Marketing Machine Organization Of Electronic Markets Jambase
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... penalized, there is a shift away from the mass
music market and more of a focus on artistic and
independently produced music. The nature of long
tail economics allows Jambase to thrive in this
independent music market because it is much less
costly with the internet to provide a medium of
exchange for these traditionally localized
segments. Market segmentation along with the fact
that there is no physical business implies a lot
for the website and its ability to generate
revenues. Jambase. c...
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Death Metal Another Controversial Kind Of Music
657 words
We 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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Rock And Roll Music Videos
711 words
The Downfall of Today's Music The nineties began
with the grunge scene, an alternative style of
rock and roll that revolutionized rock music
today. This music that was once praised by MTV was
gradually pushed out to make way for the sound of
generic rap beats, watered down heavy metal and
sugar coated pop tunes. The pattern of the
nineties is nothing new. The seventies and
eighties both saw fresh new music that preceded a
pour attempt at a new innovative sound. In the
seventies disco followed th...
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Rage Against The Machine Culture Jamming Artists
521 words
Understanding the current place of protest in
music, however, requires turning away from that
old vision of a throng singing choruses written by
iconic troubadours, not to mention its 1980 's
counterpart, the Live Aid-style celebrity
marathon. Today's protest music more closely
echoes the street politics rock has always
inspired: the focus is scattered, the voices
dissonant and the levels of involvement wildly
mixed. This noisy arena finds strength in its very
diversity. The most potent protests...
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Toni Morrison Morrison Toni
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... 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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Listeners Ears Master Tape Recording
771 words
Music Assignment Music is art and it takes a wave
of inspiration to overtake an artist for the new
peace of music to be created. It takes much more
efforts, however, to deliver it to the listeners
ears. Sometimes, song creators need help to start
recording and promoting their song. This process
might take a great amount of time and energy the
result is worth it, though: the author becomes
popular and the listeners get a hit. Many young
musicians wander whether they should record
anything at all....
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Rock And Roll Bob Dylan
1,162 words
Born on the 24 th May 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota,
USA as Robert Allen Zimmerman. His father Abraham,
worked for the Standard Oil Company. When Robert
was 6 years old, they moved to a small town called
Hibbing were he went to school. After graduation
from High School in 1959, he left for Minneapolis
to follow his studies at the University of
Minnesota. Here his love for contemporary rock and
roll came up and he listened to endless music by
Hank Williams, Robert Johnson and Woody Guthrie.
His passi...
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Good And Evil Beowulf Senses Hero
585 words
Who is the real hero in Beowulf or Grendel?
Grendel? A monster from the depths who consumes
humans as a daily diet and strives to find a
meaning in life? Or Beowulf? A warrior raised by a
king whose arrogance and courage landed him a
throne of his own? Points of view in both stories
are very distinct. Grendel seemed much more
intellectual from his point of view. The author
did not portray him as a cold-blooded monster as
you would expect. Beowulf's character was
supported by bravery and integrit...
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Dave Matthews Band Search For Meaning
594 words
The Existentialism of Dave Matthews Band Rhyme and
Reason Existentialism is the main theme throughout
the song Rhyme and Reason by Dave Matthews Band.
Matthews cites the ideas of dying and the
pointlessness of life in general within the song.
His ideas follow the basic pattern of
existentialism thinking. The main points of
existentialism found in the song are the search
for meaning everyone has in their own lives,
everyone is responsible for their own choices, the
outside world is meaningless an...
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Gustav Holst Gustav Holst Holst Gustav Holst Pauls
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Gustav Gustav Holst Gustav Holst Gustav Holst is a
classical composer, who is best-known for The
Planets. He was born in Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire, in western England. He was an
organist and choirmaster at Gloucestershire
churches, but he had neuritis in his right hand
which held him from playing the organ. Instead,
Holst turned to the trombone. From 1895 to 1898,
he studied composition at the Royal College of
Music, which he later taught, at Stanford. When he
left, he became an orchestral tro...
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Hendrix Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix James
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Jimi Hendrix Hendrix Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix
lived his life as a Musician, Guitarist, Singer
and Songwriter. He also pioneered the electric
guitar, a right handed Fender Strat, upside-down
and left-handed. He was one of the most original
and influential people of all time. James Marshall
Hendrix was born November 27, 1942 in Seattle,
Washington. He taught himself to play in his
school boy days. He then enlisted himself in the
Army as a parachute jumper, but an injury led to
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Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience released its first
album in early 1967. Popular music had been
leaning towards psychedelics for a couple years
already and Are You Experienced? came out at about
the same time as the Beatles Sergeant Peppers
Lonely Hearts Club Band. Are You Experienced? far
exceeded the Beatles triumph in complexity,
capturing the essence of the late 1960 s culture.
Naturally the newer band did not share the
immediate success of the Beatles. But its staying
power has been testified to...
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Miles Davis Jazz Musicians
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The Electric Miles Davis Born in Alton, Illinois,
Miles Davis grew up in a middle-class family in
East St. Louis. Miles Davis took up the trumpet at
the age of 13 and was playing professionally two
years later. Some of his first gigs included
performances with his high school banana playing
with Eddie Randall and the blue Devils. Miles
Davis has said that the greatest musical
experience of his life was hearing the Billy
Eckstine orchestra when it passed through St.
Louis. In September 1944 Davis...
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Eric Clapton Rolling Stones
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Electric Muddy Waters Muddy Waters Electric Blues
Muddy Waters was the patriarch of the post-World
War II Chicago blues. He was a master artist who
played slashing slide guitar with an earthy raspy
voice who had seen his share of sorrow in life.
Muddy was also a compelling songwriter; a
storyteller in song. He was a master performer,
recording artist and bandleader. His had a way of
juicing up the music with a rocking backbeat and
an unfiltered down-home intensity; he possessed an
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Rebel Vampires Queen Lestat
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Queen of the Damned is basically the story of the
origin of vampires. All vampires originated from a
single vampire, Akasha, and she became known as
the queen. The queen and her king, Email the first
vampire she ever created, sit atop their throne in
a comatose state. They are so powerful that they
no longer need to feed on the blood of humans. In
this story Lestat, who is hated and hunted by his
fellow vampires for telling humans he is a
vampire, awakens the queen by biting her neck The
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