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Janis Joplin Jimi Hendrix
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Cd Popular Music
531 wordsThese Popular Music Popular Radio These days you get into your car, flip on the radio, and what do you hear? A barrage of fake music. Lets name just a few to familiarize you with what I am speaking of: Back Street Boys, N? Sync, Brittany Spears, 98 Degrees, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, the list goes on and on. Where did this surge of teenybopper music come from? Well, it has always been around, yet I don? t think it has played such a role in popular music like it does today. Groups like ...
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Kurt Cobain Parents Divorce
829 wordsFor our modern day hero we used the singer and songwriter Kurt Cobain from the band Nirvana. This punk Seattle band moved almost mainstream almost overnight. Nirvana caught on fast and changed rock and roll music forever and molded the music of the 90? s, alternative. Cobain had an enormous amount of talent but unfortunately his life was cut short by a still controversial suicide in his Seattle home. On April 9, 1994, his body was discovered. He is a hero for many of today? s troubled youth beca...
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Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar
1,467 wordsJames Marshal Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington, on November 27, 1942; a black American of African, European, Cherokee Indian and Mexican descent. An unsettled home environment made Jimi spend much of his early years staying with his grandmother, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, in Canada. His mother died when Jimi was 15 about the same time as Jimi began to take a serious interest in music and playing the guitar. When he was 12 he got his first electric guitar the instrument which shaped t...
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Louis Armstrong Cool Jazz
648 wordsThe History Of Jazz The first jazz was played in the early 20 th century. The work chants and folk music of black Americans are among the sources of jazz, which reflects the rhythms and expressions of West African song. Ragtime, an Afro-American music that first appeared in the 1890 s, was composed for the piano, and each rag is a composition with several themes. The leading ragtime composer was Scott Joplin. The first improvising jazz musician was the cornetist Buddy Bolden, leader of a band in...
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R 038 B Rock And Roll
1,133 wordsHistory of Rock Rock Music is a group of related music styles that have dominated popular music in the West since about 1955. Rock music began in the United States, but it has influenced and in turn been shaped by a broad field of cultures and musical traditions, including gospel music, the blues, country-and-western music, classical music, folk music, electronic music, and the popular music of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In addition to its use as a broad designation, the term rock music co...
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Human Events One Moment
1,162 wordsThe introduction of the Declaration of Independence: When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. The passage from Sinners in the Hands of ...
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Grateful Dead San Francisco
1,723 wordsJerome John Garcia was born in 1942, in San Francisco's Mission District. His father, a spanish immigrant named Jose Joe Garcia, had been a jazz clarinetist and Dixieland bandleader in the thirties, and he named his new son after his favorite Broadway composer, Jerome Kern. In the spring of 1948, while on a fishing trip, Garcia saw his father swept to his death by a California river. After his fathers death, Garcia spent a few years living with his mothers parents, in one of San Francisco's work...
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James Marshal Hendrix Jimi Hendrix Chas
320 wordsJames Jimi Hendrix JIMMI HENDRIX James Marshal Hendrix was born on November 27 th 1942, in State Washington. He was considered by many to be the greatest guitarist to have ever lived. When he was 12 years old, his father traded his saxophone to buy an inexpensive acoustic guitar for Jimi. Though he never learned to read music, he tought himself by getting together with other local no-named bands and gigged for about 50 cents an hour and all the pop and food they could consume. When he was 17 he ...
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Rhythm And Blues Rock And Roll
2,300 wordsPaul Whiteman (1890 - 1967) = a classically trained violinist and violist who adored jazz but lacked the gift to emulate the uninhibited improvisations of the jazz musicians he admired, formed a dance band in the early twenties that played jazzy arrangements of popular and even classical melodies. Blues = a black vocal folk music, began as vocal (largely instrumental). Classical blues = based on 3 lines of text. Wild wame don? t do the blues. Urban Blues = blues pieces written for publication an...
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Write Adventures In The Music Adventures In The Music Press Gorman's
714 wordsLets talk about me As a public announcement that the heyday of the music press was officially over, Cameron Crowes movie Almost Famous couldnt be bettered. Its story of a teenage journalist on his first assignment for Rolling Stone cloaked the music press and early- 1970 s rock music in rose-tinted blandness. Its coy hints about sex and drugs were carefully airbrushed. Perhaps worst of all was its depiction of rock writer Lester Bangs. The real-life Bangs (now deceased) was a loud, scruffy, dysf...
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Louis Armstrong Jazz Musician
1,201 wordsLouis Armstrong Heroes are needed in the world to give people something to look up to, someone to be like. Louis Armstrong over came such adversities as poverty, a lack of good education, and racism to become one of the greatest jazz player not just of the 1920 s but of the 20 th century. Armstrong was one of the creators of Jazz and was one of the most popular entertainers from the 1920 s. Starting out at a young age he never knew that one day he would be such a popular jazz player and also not...
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Play Ska Music Derived From The Characters Tantra
968 wordsMephiskapheles Most people wouldnt think that medieval myths and modern music have much in common. However, to a certain extent they do share at least one thing in common, and it is the bandMephiskapholes, a play on words for Mephistopholes, a mythological deity. To understand Mephistopholes and how he relates to the band in question, one must understand his role in German mythology. Mephistopholes is always an evil character, and is often compared to a devil or Satan. The most popular reference...
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Write An Essay Convincing Evidence
605 wordsEnglish 4 Music Essay This paper is a claim-driven essay. That means, your goal is to persuade your audience to think the way you do about a particular issue regarding music. You will state a thesis and support this thesis with convincing evidence. Your convincing evidence will include analyses of lyrics, CD covers and videos and secondary sources about your musician or genre of music. There are three ways to approach this assignment: Approach # 1 Write an essay modeled after All the Rage by Cro...
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Music Industry Mp 3
767 wordsWatch out Compact Disc, make way Mini Disc, MP 3 is coming through. MP 3, or MPEG Audio Layer 3, is a new audio format which will revamp the entire music industry once embraced. MP 3 files are playable on the computer and retain the CD quality near perfectly. As with anything computer-compatible though, MP 3 will be given all the blessings and curses that come along with the internet. On the producing end of the music industry, a switch to MP 3 is being extremely hesitated. Its only a matter of ...
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Colorado Springs Music Industry
549 wordsMusicmaniaThe Colorado Music Conference (CMC) is a musical event that offers the opportunity to learn everything about a variety of topics in the music industry. CMC, sponsored by Kevin Dudley, offers seminars, exhibitions, showcases, and products that can help one to get connected to other professionals in the business. This sensational event was held the weekend of May 30 th, 31 st, and June 1 st, 1997, at the Red Lion Inn, which is located at 501 Camino Del Rio in Colorado Springs, Colorado. ...
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Punk Music Positive Impact
910 wordsIntroduction: Often when people think of punk music they still think of the eighties? down with government beat the hell out of your neighbor get wasted? stereotype. It oge's without saying that punk music has earned it? s reputation for being high impact, loud, energetic and intense. However people often associate the message of all punk music as containing nothing more then violent anti-government statements and messages of alienation. Many people share the view that it has nothing to say and ...
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Waste Of Time Punk Bands
1,983 wordsAs a kid around the age of 15, I was lost and confused. I knew that I didnt have it all together, and everywhere I looked people acted as if they did. My thoughts and ideas would change day to day as I talked to one person and then the next. I needed a concrete feeling. I tried going to church and finding a release through God, but I was unable to believe. I tried looking at all my friends, but they were all naive, so I turned to music. Music has become my religion, it clearly defines the questi...
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Rock And Roll Punk Rock
900 wordsA Crazy Little Thing Called Punk Sex, drugs, and rock and roll was the rallying cry for a movement that changed American culture forever. Rock and roll first startled the American scene in the mid- 1950, but no one then could have predicted the remarkable vitality and staying power of this new music. The early tradition of rock has gone through many transitions. Provocative and outlandish stage attire and behavior have been an important resource since the birth of rock and roll. Decades followin...
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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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