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Avant Garde Civil War
996 wordsJohn Perreault is a musician who lives in Upstate, NY. He started appreciating music at an early age. Banging on pots-and-pans, singing. His grandfather, who was a professional musician, and my supportive parents, drove his interest in music. He was always in chorus. Then when the time came, he took up the bass in fourth grade. He quit the bass playing after three years and didn't do anything musical. He took a few music classes, but played nothing on the side. Then his grandfather passed away i...
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Rolling Stone Magazine Language Learners
748 wordsPROJECT 2 PLAN A COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITY FOR A SECONDARY LEVEL CLASS UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC A MONTRAL THE ESSENTIAL RECORDINGS OF THE 90 s This activity is based on an article published in the Rolling Stone magazine of May 13, 1999. This article is about the 150 best recordings of nineties. It consists of a short resume of each record describing its musical influence on the decade and on its listeners. For the fallowing activity, this text as been reduced to 20 recordings (instead of a 150) that ar...
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Rock And Roll Ringo Starr
1,242 wordsThe Beatles were known as a rock and roll group, but they were not just any old band. They changed music around the world, as we know it. Between the boys, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Richard Starkey, better known as Ringo Starr, they had extraordinary talent (History of the Beatles 1). They started what was called the "British Invasion, " and some say that the Beatles are the greatest musicians to ever walk God's great earth. It all started in 1956, when John Lennon starte...
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Tipper Gore Juvenile Delinquency
5,065 words... g. The Technical Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography stated: ... efforts to restrict or censor have the psychological effect of increasing the desirability of the material. Increasing the difficulty of obtaining erotic materials, harassing and punishing pornographers and purveyors of pornography, setting minimum age limits for the purchase of these materials, and so on, may have the unwanted effect of increasing interest in the materials, rendering them more desirable, and ...
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Nuclear Family Family History
1,392 wordsSince their inception in the 1860 s, family albums have played an important role as the promoters of familial ideology and treasures of familial memory. Most family photograph albums in containing a great variety of items, both identified and unidentified, from different periods and of varying quality, held together by their collective identity with the family (Schoeman, 1996: 8). The function of familial photography is to fix perception and memory, represent a method of preserving memories, doc...
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Esta Noche Tu Vendras Esta Noche Tu Group
1,022 wordsLos Invasores de Nuevo Leon is a norteno band, wherein the accordionist, Javier Rios initiated in 1978, in Monterrey, N. L. , Mexico, where the accordion music is inseparable from the Norteno tradition. However the group didnt started playing professionally until 1980 when they obtained the vocalist and acoustic guitarist, Lalo Mora. The career of the Invaders, at the beginning was harsh. In an interview with Mora he mentioned, At the beginning the group had financial problems, but with Gods ble...
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Los Angeles California Ozzy Osbourne
1,731 wordsRandall William Rhoads was born on December 6, 1956 at St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, California. With one brother (Doug) and one sister (Kathy), Randy was the youngest of three. When Randy was 17 months old his father, William Arthur Rhoads, a public school music teacher, left and all three children were raised by their mother, Delores Rhoads. William Rhoads would later remarry, producing Dan and Paul, ... "half" brothers to Randy. Randy started taking guitar lessons around the age of 6 or...
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End Of The Year George Harrison
1,055 wordsProbably the most popular, influential and enduring rock group of all time, the Beatles almost single-handedly reshaped rock 'n' roll from a genre of throwaway singles by faceless stars to an artistic medium with recognizable images and idols. The Beatles placed the emphasis on a group, rather than a single individual. They also set an example for all rock acts to follow with their strong sense of self-determination, going against their record company and management on many issues, even refusing...
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The Story Of Bob Marley And Wailers
1,246 words... ler quit the band to pursue solo careers. This caused the band to change their name again and this time to Bob Marley and the Wailers. The departure of the two members created a hole in the backing vocal section, this hole was filled and then some by the I-Threes (Rita Marley, Judy Mowatts and Marcia Griffiths) (The Story). That summer the band started a new European tour. Two of those shows were at the Lyceum Ballroom, both shows were considered among the top of the decade. Both shows were ...
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Backstreet Boys Sixty Nine
1,678 wordsIn a world full of imitations, the Backstreet Boys are definitely not just another fabricated, bubblegum-pop boy-band, but are a multi-talented group of real musicians. With each Backstreet Boy having his own unique experiences in such areas as: acting, singing, modeling, and playing instruments, it is obvious that it would add flavor to their phenomenal voices, and lead them to fame and fortune. "Honestly, looking at them for the first time with their country, down to earth, all American boy im...
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Number One Hit Madonna Released
1,074 wordsMadonna had affective millions of people with her songs. Madonna has been in the music business for over 20 years now. All of Madonnas albums had religious and sexual symbolism. There are many proofs that Madonna should be taken seriously as an artist and also as an icon. To keep her style up to date she would always come out with different looks and different ways of dressing. This was one of the reasons way she is where she is right now. Madonna has helped move on the styles from different tim...
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House Of The Risin Sun
1,063 wordsHouse of the Risin Sun In order to understand the song House of the Risin Sun we need first to have a short look at Bob Dylan and his music. Bob Dylan was born in 1941 in Minnesota. He was a regular child and he became interested in music only while being in high school, when he learned to play piano and guitar. From these basic musical skills, Dylan constantly acquiring new knowledge and experience in music has grown to be the master of folk music in the period of rock expansion. It is a big ac...
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Number One Hit Allen Unwin
2,609 wordsIcons An icon can be defined in many ways. Some might say he or she is a man or a woman who himself / herself is remarkable, whether it be through superhuman powers, or extreme experiences. It is his nature which makes him or her to become icon, as he / she takes part in things unattainable to a normal person. An icon has a huge impact on the society, because lot of people attempt to become icons in some way too. Being an icon means to be important and valuable for the members of a society. Ther...
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Songs On The Album Alto Sax Davis
674 wordsMiles Davis, from his beginnings as a nineteen-year-old kid in 1945 New York City, to his final days in the early 1990? s, is to be considers one of the jazz? s best. The 1996 album entitled, Bluing: Miles Davis Plays the Blues, the engineers at Prestige Records bring Miles Davis back to life. Packed with over 73 minutes and of 12 bar blues, Bluing brings nine great tunes of Davis? together on one disk. Having been originally recorded in the 1950? s, these nine cuts take the listener through a d...
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Catch A Fire Quot And Quot
1,935 wordsJamaica has produced an artist who has touched all categories, classes, and creeds through innate modesty and profound wisdom. Bob Marley, the Natural Mystic who introduced reggae to European and American fans still may prove to be the most significant musical artist of the twentieth century. Bob Marley gave the world brilliant music and established reggae as major forces in music that is comparable with the blues and rock& rolls. His work stretched across nearly two decades and still remain...
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Ed Sullivan Show Brian Epstein
1,055 wordsThe The Beatles The Beatles The Beatles started out in the British city, Liverpool where music was a way of life for many people. The Beatles were preceded by a John Lennon fronted band called the Quarry men. The group invited a 15 year old boy named Paul McCartney to see them perform a show. The then 16 year old John Lennon took to McCartney, that? s when a unique and amazing song writing partnership began. The Quarry Men ended up falling apart at the seams. John Lennon and Paul McCartney kept ...
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Three Lines First Three
783 wordsDepeche Mode: Songs of Faith and Devotion Originally released in 1993, Depeche Modes Songs of Faith and Devotion was unveiled to a stunned U. S. and U. K. audience. The band had undergone a transformation of truly gothic proportions. Gone were the short crew cuts, the sole use of synthesizers, and the Gap image. In its place were long and flowing Jesus-like hair, distorted guitars and full drum sections, and a look that some described as the heroine junky mode. Much to the surprise of die-hard f...
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Elderly Woman Human Race
1,849 wordsEddie Vedder Is A Vampire Although at first he may seem to be just your average angst ridden lead man for a popular rock and roll band, Eddie Vedder, the vocalist and lyricist for Pearl Jam, may very well be a vampire. Although it is impossible to tell, everything points to his being an immortal. An in depth analysis of his lyrics shows that Pearl Jams second album, ? Versus? , has been used by Vedder as sounding boards for the complex emotions and change of perspective that come with ones trans...
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Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze
791 wordsThe 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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Freedom Of Expression Type Of Music
1,234 wordsIf hes to be taken literally, then so is Britney Spears invitation to hit me baby one more time, says one article in Advocate Magazine. They are speaking in reference to the rapper Eminem one they heavily talked-about topic of music censorship. What is music censorship? There is a great deal of confusion (one everybody's part) as to what freedom of expression is in the US, and how it applies to music. Everybody knows that there are radio stations, religious and community groups, retailers, and r...
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