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Rock And Roll Punk Rock
601 wordsThe 1980 s are mostly known for its cheesy new wave music, with keyboards and big hair. One of the turning points in music, punk rock, was also recognized in the early 80 s. Though it was less popular then, punk rock has stuck around and managed to become a very well-known and popular music genre. Some of the very early bands of the 1970 s helped to pave the way for punk rock bands. The Slits, The 101 ers, Malcom Mc Lauren, and the Raincoats were a few of the trend-setting bands. A UK feminist p...
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Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker
1,424 words... lly redefined the way to improvise in a song, and it is full of creative and unique musical ideas, also called "licks." Famous people such as the saxophonist Charlie Parker, the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and the drummer Max Roach created bebop during the 40 s and the Postwar Decades, which was definitely a big leap for jazz. This style of jazz is less restricted, and improvisation involved longer phrases, more choruses, and more emotions. Modal jazz, also called free jazz, has no rules at a...
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Rolling Stone Magazine Britney Spears
1,249 wordsWithin our generation music has become an essential part of our daily lives. Established favorites ranging from 2 PAC to Pearl Jam have touched the lives of many. But today we walk through the record stores seeing more and more new faces among the top ten artists. A wave of boy bands and blondes with beautiful faces are rising out of the woodwork and selling more albums than many established artists of the past. Their faces and voices flood our minds through the television and the radio as many ...
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Metal Blade Records Drugs And Alcohol
1,813 wordsThesis: The lifestyle of a professional musician is more difficult than glamorous. II. The Hardships of being a professional pop musician. A. The physical and mental rigors of being on tour. 1. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was stressed to the max. 2. When the Goo Goo Dolls performed on tour with Everclear, the amount of performing they did was ludicrous and very taxing. a. One night, John Reznick was forced to perform even though he had totally lost his voice the night before. B. The difficult...
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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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Jimi Hendrix Experience Rock And Roll
2,018 wordsThe 1960 s are said to be the most prolific decade in all of music. Many bands of this decade have proven to have enormous effects on music, as we know it. Jimi Hendrix is said to be the greatest rock and roll guitarist of all time. The greats, like Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana, have all said that he truly made the guitar speak and transformed it into an art. The Doors were true innovators and turned rock into an art form, by skillfully blending rock and poetry. No one can deny that they were...
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Southern Hemisphere Magnetic Field
1,422 wordsJupiter, the largest of the Jovian planets, reigns supreme throughout the solar system. Named after the Roman god Jove, the ruler of Olympus; "Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun and is also the largest planet in the Earth's solar system. It is 318 times more massive than Earth and is two thirds of the planetary mass in the solar system. Jupiter's surface, unlike earth, is gaseous and not a solid. It is about 90 % hydrogen and 10 % helium with traces of methane, ammonia, water and rock. Jup...
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Recording Studio Technology And The Producer
1,950 wordsStudio technology has developed drastically over the years and has become ever more vital to the record producer within the music industry. Different producers make use of studio technology in different ways, often depending on the style of music that they are producing, their preferred method of production and the bands preference of sound. The development of recording technology has run parallel to a reorientation in popular music production. The goal of getting a good sound is no different no...
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Abuse And Neglect Elder Abuse
1,834 words... times more than one data form was received for the same maltreated elder, describing either the same or different abusive incidents. It was necessary to identify such duplicates and count each person only once for purposes of this study. Out of a total of 1, 699 APS and sentinel reports, study staff identified 93 sets of genuine duplicates, resulting in 1, 606 unduplicated reports (1, 466 APS and 140 sentinel). Duplicate cases reported both to APS and sentinel agencies were removed from the ...
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Level Of Customer Order To Increase
1,248 wordsCase Analysis: The Grateful Dead Creating Deadheads by Providing Drop-Dead Customer Service List of Facts The career of popular rock-band, The Grateful Dead, started in 1965. The band enjoyed popularity until 1995, when the lead guitarist Jerry Garcia died. The band started its career playing in a pizza parlor (Palo Alto, California) for $ 50 per night concert. Already in 1973 The Grateful Dead gave concert to a crowd of 600, 000 people at Watkins Glen, New York. It was the largest crowd in Amer...
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Pearl Jam As A Counter Cultural Band
2,406 wordsPearl Jam as a Counter-cultural Band The early ' 90 s alt-rock rebellion, which spewed from the underground like a geyser and saved rock-n-roll from hair bands, exacted a serious toll. Band break-ups, career nosedives, sell-outs and drug abuse death are as much a legacy of that dramatic period as the music. Pearl Jam is still standing - arguably the only band from the age that still matters. "I'm totally excited about still being around, " said Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready. While the group ...
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Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia
2,015 wordsGrateful Dead I wanna tell you how it's gonna be, you " re gonna give your love to me, I wanna love you night and day, you know my love not fade away. You know my love not fade away, not fade away! -- Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead (Skull-Fuck and Roses), 1971 In the summer of 1995, following the death of Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead stopped touring. For thirty years, their concerts served as a gathering place for a diverse group of followers, nicknamed Deadheads. Coming from all walks of life,...
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One Thing First Thing
724 wordsLately I have been reading the teen magazines YM and Seventeen and Ive noticed one thing; they really annoy me. I feel like they are just for preps and the trend oid freaks. Well what about the other groups? The gangsters, punks, skaters, bikers, or whatever. They should really give recognition to the other people in our society. Maybe they want just the good teenagers around. They are not going to get what they want. Maybe they think if they print stuff up all about preps and trends everyone wi...
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Shawn Fanning Limp Bizkit
3,009 wordsIs trading digital music using Napster Online legal or copyright infringement? First, we must find out what Napster is and who created it. Napster is a combination of? the features of existing programs: the instant-messaging system of Internet Relay Chat, the file-sharing functions of Microsoft Windows and the advanced searching and filtering capabilities of various search engines? (Greenfield). Basically all it is, is a really cool little program that a person can download off of the internet f...
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Dave Matthews Band Lived Their Lives
2,218 wordsWhen the contemporary Dave Matthews Band came out in 1991, they had no idea what was in store for them. The Dave Matthews Band has influenced many people and have also contributed to the great musical movement of the 1990 s and of today. The Dave Matthews Band takes from widely varied musical interests of five musicians to create a unique sound that combines the influences of folk, jazz, rock, world beat, and reggae. David Matthews, the bands namesake and lead guitarist and vocalist, began to as...
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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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Rock And Roll Jimi Hendrix
1,673 wordsJimi Hendrix and Why He Is Important Jimi Hendrix became popular for the person that he was rather than the songs that he wrote. Purple Haze was known as his signature song primarily because it was his first really big hit that was his own music. He crossed many boundaries and influenced many musicians to come. Hendrix excelled in unique guitar sounds, and Purple Haze is a fine showing of Hendrix s combination of sounds and innovative lyrics. He changed rock and roll by making his music show wha...
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Kurt Cobain Committed Suicide
1,103 wordsKurt Cobain, Mascot of a Generation The number one cause of death in teens is suicide. Looking back to one of the most commonly known and possibly most devastating suicides, of Kurt Cobain. In his time of music he had the world in his hands. He used personal turmoil as fuel for great music. Surprisingly, he seemed unusually tortured by success. But yet he still managed to change rock music forever and influence many other bands along the way. One of Cobain's biggest worries was that his band had...
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Late 19 Th Century 20 Th Century
2,826 wordsMusics Influence on society Music has been around for thousands of years. Music appeals to everyone. When was the last time you have heard someone say, I hate all music. ? Lately though music has been criticized for corrupting teens minds. Rap is being blamed for all the crimes and murders in cities all over America and heavy metal is being blamed for giving teens only dark images and thoughts in their minds. Although the media and public criticize rap and rock music and blame the music for infl...
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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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