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Good Example First Verse
1,230 wordsIt is almost impossible to identify the author of a spiritual or to pinpoint its original form. Typically, spirituals are created by nonprofessional musicians, changed by other singers and passed along from one generation to the next. As the song is passed along it starts to change. The changes that take place become a part of the original song and eventually the music takes on a different form. Over the span of years the authors' names are forgotten. The composer who wishes to create a new spir...
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Black Music In America
1,065 wordsBlack Music in America: A History Through Its People Tahirah Carter by James Haskins Intro to Music I have definitely learned allot about the Evolution of American Music in this class. I found it to be very intriguing. So when I was faced with the chore of deciding which book I would do my report on, I chose Black Music in America by James Haskins. This book gave a detailed account of not only the music genres but its performers. We already know that American music is made up of music from many ...
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An American Tragedy And The Futility Of Dream
1,898 wordsAn American Tragedy is an intriguing, frighteningly realistic journey into the mind of a murderer. It is a biography of its era. And, it is also historical fiction. But what makes this novel a classic? While society has changed dramatically since 1925, Dreiser's novel, which shows the futility of "The American Dream" and the tragedies that trying to live it can cause, accurately summarizes social mores of this and any time period. Before Theodore Dreiser was born, his father, a devout German imm...
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Cultural Of The Ojibway Native Americans
1,642 wordsI sat in awe when a Native American, dressed in traditional regalia, walked forward and began speaking to us about his life and culture. Never in my nineteen years of life had I actually seen a Native American aside from television. Prior to that point I never had any first hand experiences with their culture, so therefore all of my opinions and thoughts were based on stereotypes I had come to absorb over the years. Therefore, he looked how I had imagined he would, but I had no clue what to expe...
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Responsible For Mufasa Death Responsible For Mufasa Simba
709 wordsScar has the plan set. He lures Simba to the gorge and gets him to wait there, while the hyenas cause a stampede of the wilder beast. Scar knows that Simba has no chance of surviving the stampede. Simba is on his way to doom when Mufasa comes to his aid again. Mufasa gets Simba out of harms way but in the process finds himself hanging off a cliff. Scar sees this and rushes to the cliff but not to save Mufasa but to make sure he dies. Scar then tells Simba that he should leave because Mufasa's de...
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Moulin Rouge Baz Luhrmann
940 wordsMoulin Rouge! (2001) Moulin Rouge (2001) is produced by Baz Luhrmann. This film won 2 Oscars and another sixty five wins and eighty three nominations. Stars: Nicole Kidman (Satine) and Ewan McGregor (Christian). Although it is very difficult to speak about musical, Moulin Rouge was one of the few films that have made great impression on me. Musical is, probably, one of the most interesting genres of theatrical performance. It is the most conditional genre. Musical demands from the actors not onl...
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The Souls Of Black Folk
1,902 wordsThe Souls of Black Folk Having written The Souls of Black Folk, William Edward Burghardt DuBois could not even imagine that it would become one of the greatest pieces of southern literature written during his time. This book had a profound impact on how black culture was viewed. The Souls of Black Folk even revolutionized perceptions and attitudes of white society toward black people. Through the usage of brilliant descriptions in the areas of food, symbols, dialect, locations and landmarks, arc...
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Rock And Roll Chord Progression
2,559 wordsJoseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. (p. 578) In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. (Although Alan Lomax cites some examples of very similar songs having been found in Northwest Africa, particularly among the Wolof and Watusi. p. 233) The word blue has been associated with the idea of melancholia...
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Nursery Rhyme Grateful Dead
1,480 wordsWho can say where the prose comes from that flow from the pens of the author s of the Grateful Dead s lyrics? Careful listening reveals a strong tendency toward the ancient form of the nursery rhyme. From Robert Hunter s first lyric for the band Alligator (Hunter 6), in which he echoes Old King Cole (Gould 143), to John Perry Barlow s Throwing Stones (Dodd), nursery rhymes have provided both text and rhythm, and seem to fit well into the playful sound of the Dead. The rhythm of nursery rhyme pre...
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Western Concert Choir Elements Of The Choir Voices
804 wordsAfter parking out in the wilds of the Western parking-lot system I managed to hike a few miles through the wind and rain to the PAC on a stormy November 9 th in Bellingham. Having shaken myself off I found a comfortable seat in the upper deck and settled in to enjoy the warmth and music of the evening. Minutes after I sat down the choir filed in to form a semi-circle around the conductor. Everyone was dressed up in black and looked striking for the evenings performance. The evenings performance ...
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Bar Mitzvah Doesnt Understand
563 wordsMarvin Matthew Falsettos Cast Marvin Matthew Scott Whizzer- Robert McCaffrey Jason Kid Trina - Heather Wood Cordelia- Renee Klapmeyer Dr. Charlotte - Jessica Dennis Dr. Mendel Jon Hack Falsettos Music &# 038; Lyrics by: William Finn Book by William Finn and James Line 1 st act starts in 1979 2 nd act starts in 1981 The story starts off in 1979 with Marvin and Trina. They are married and have a child Jason, appearing to be a normal family. Marvin discovers that he is gay and starts seeing a psych...
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Santa Claus Christmas Eve
2,404 wordsChristmas in Spain is a very joyous and religious time of year. You will see that a Spanish Christmas has a lot of American influence but also has much of their own heritage in it. In small towns and villages it is more traditional and distinctly Spanish. It is in the bigger cities that you will find more American and European customs. For an example, will only see a Santa Claus walking around in Madrid and other big cities. The idea of Santa has spread through out Spain more today. The climate ...
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God Is Dead Belief In God
2,025 wordsFriedrich Nietzsche died on August 25, 1900, at the age of fifty-five, leaving a legacy of brilliant writings whose impact and influence were delayed until the twentieth century. His life was full of sharp contrasts. The son and grandson of Lutheran ministers, he was nevertheless the herald of the judgement that God is dead and undertook a campaign against morality. He was nurtured in an environment thoroughly dominated by females yet advocated the most masculine philosophy of the superman. He c...
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Ii Destinys Child R 038 B Group
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J Alfred Prufrock Middle Aged Man
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God Is Dead Belief In God
1,847 wordsFriedrich Nietzsche Born: 1844. Rock, Germany Died: 1900. Weimar, Germany Major Works: The Gay Science (1882), Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883 - 1885), Beyond Good &# 038; Evil (1886), On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), MAJOR IDEAS Self deception is a particularly destructive characteristic of West Culture. Life is The Will To Power; our natural desire is to dominate and reshape the world fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree possible. Struggle, through whic...
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Belief In God Spoke Zarathustra
1,545 wordsTHE PHILOSOPHY OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Sometimes philosophy is called timeless, implying that its lessons are of value to any generation. This may be hard to see in Nietzsche's work; but, we are assured that it was appropriate thought for his time. However, even Nietzsche's critics admit that his words hold an undeniable truth, as hard as it is to accept. Perhaps this is why his work is timeless, and has survived 150 years in print. Christianity God is Dead! announced Zarathustra (better known as...
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B Du Bois W E B Du
988 wordsHarlem Renaissance The Harlem renaissance was a time of creative ingenuity among blacks confined to the ghetto s of America by racism and an implied social class. In the Early 20 s black s had progressed far enough along where some didn t need to work 16 hour days to make a living. This, coupled with the coming together of lots of blacks in ghetto s, the exposure of some blacks to European whites who weren t racist like American whites, combined to raise the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of bla...
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Sing Sing Ive Heard
1,048 wordsb. March 15, 1916, Albany, Georgia, USA. d. July 5, 1983, Las Vegas. Harry James father Everette James, was a trumpeter and led a circus band with the Mighty Haag Circus. His mother Maybelle, was a trapeze artist with the circus. Harry began playing the drums when he was four and began playing trumpet when he was eight. He joined the circus band the next year and was leading it by the time he was twelve. Then their family moved to Beaumont Texas, and at 15 Harry James began playing in local danc...
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Early Church Important Role
1,952 wordsThe Importance of Hymns in the Congregational Church Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. Colossians 3: 16 (NIV) The Congregational Church is not a new religion in the United States today. This early denomination dates back to the 16 th and 17 th centuries, a time in which England was involved in a revolt against the Established Church. This congreg...
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