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Whats Happening Daily Lives
1,561 words... get all the time. " Not only was radio initially disapproved of, the vaudeville community actually ordered its acts to stay off the air under penalty of contract cancellation. Musical, concert, and operatic managers also shunned radio fearing that "songs plugged too strongly over the air would lose their sales value, " Billboard reported on March 1, 1930. Eventually, however, both vaudeville and the rest of the industry came to recognize radio as a way of stimulating sales. By 1930, Billboar...
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President Nixon Disco Forget
510 wordsTonight I will be speaking about one of the most controversial eras of our time. The 70 s. When terms like Party Hardy!" Goin' Cruizin' "Right On!"ROCK ON! !" and "Shake your Booty" were getting used in everyday conversation. Guys wore their hair long and in afros. Pet rocks were a kids best friend, and mood rings let you know if someone was feeling down. 8 tracks had came and gone, with cassette tapes taking over in a hurry. For the weekend fun, disco clubs were the place to be. If you didnt fe...
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World War 1 Dada Movement
1,178 wordsLets go back to 1916 where Hugo Balle, Tristan Tara, Marcel Jan, and Richard Hue- Isenbeck are finding the Dada artistic movement. These guys are a bunch of anarchists living in Zurich, Switzerland. The Dada movement preaches the essence of spirit the freedom of expression, hatred to the great war (or what we later called World War 1), with a want to preserve the middle class, while humankind was degrading morally, with little or no hopes for a bright future. This goes in context with this CS 3 ...
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The History Of Rave Music
1,005 wordsThe history of Rave Music is quite interesting. It has been around for decades. Some enjoy it, some dont. There is some conflict as to where Rave Music actually started. Some people, non-ravers most likely, ask what is Rave Music? Rave Music is made up of technologically advanced beats that are mixed with other beats to form music. Rave Music has a culture of its own, as so does any other music type. The history of Rave Music is hard to sum up, but here it goes... The controversy in Who started ...
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The Death Of Rock N Roll
1,426 wordsHere we are on the brink on the new millennium, ready to step into the New World and adapt to the new environment of time. We shall be embracing new lifestyles, all of us; but we shall be leaving a big chunk of our past and present buried in the wastes of time. Rock n roll is dead? What started out as a revolution of the youth in the 50 s is right now an endangered species. Rock n roll had lived through its glory days and now stands at the threshold of its extinction. Throughout the latter years...
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Rock N Roll Style Of Music
702 wordsRock n Roll From Rock-a-Billy in the 50 's, to Rock in the 60 's, to Disco in the 70 's, to Punk and Glamour in the 80 's, no American institution has ever undergone such radical transformation in such a short time. Women's suffrage was not until 1920. Chuck Berry started it; Elvis Presley put a face on it. In the 1950 's, Rock n' Roll was born. It emerged from rhythm and blues, a kind of music similar to jazz. This kind of music attracted teenagers. Disk jockey Alan Freed was the one who introd...
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Break Dancing Hip Hop
382 wordsBreakdancing a form of African American dance that emerged from the hip hop culture of the South Bronx, New York, during the mid- 1970 s. Drawing upon several African American dance forms, break dancing coalesced in the 1970 s and reached its peak in popularity during the 1980 s. Breakdancing developed out of the Bronx, New York, disco scene. When disco DJs changed records, dancers would fill the resulting musical breaks, or breakbeat's, with movements that emphasized the rupture in rhythmic con...
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Heavy Metal Metal Band
580 wordsAnarchists of Good Taste What do you think of when I say this for a band name, Dog Fashion Disco? You never heard of them, have you? There a Five piece band from Washington DC, who are signed with Spitfire Records. Their lineup consists of Jeff Siegel / keyboards , Stephen Mears / bass , Tod Smith / vocals /guitar, John Ensminger / drums , and Greg Combs / guitar . Their new CD, Anarchist of Good Taste, was produced by Drew Manzurek and was released on March 6, 2001. Their type music is a genre ...
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Queens Silver Jubilee London Kings Road Vogue
2,054 wordsStyle is independent of fashion. Those who have style can indeed accept or ignore fashion. For them fashion is not something to be followed, it is rather something to be set, to select from or totally reject. Style is spontaneous, inborn. It is the gloriously deliberate, unpremeditated but divine gift of the few. Spotlight on style, Vogue, 1 September 1976 Pre-empting the moment when punk clashed with the Queens Silver Jubilee, Vogue used the A-word. Youll be wearing a positive anarchy of costum...
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American Culture Art Form
796 wordsJazz Dance Jazz dance is a form of personal expression created and sustained though improvisation has certain defining characteristics, including improvisation, isolation, a centrifugal explosion of energy that radiates outward from the hips, and a propulsive rhythm that gives a swinging quality to the movement. -Bob Books Jazz is a crossbreed of north American cultures, a music and dance of the slaves of Africa, and old European Jigs and lit's, Minstrel shows and presumably, Jazz music. Jazz is...
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Rock N Roll En La
586 wordsLa Entrevista con Carlos Santana Para mi entre vista yo have con la cantata famous, Carlos Santana. Yo fui a Hollywood, California la semana panama disputes que Carlos go ocho grammys. La siguiente entre vista es sobre la carrera de Santana y su buen exit. Tomas: Hola Carlos. Primera, congratulation con su buen exit a las grammys. Carlos: Muchas gracias Tomas. Yo he hecho album caf? , tu quieres? Tomas: Si. Gracias. Yo voy a hablar sobre tu carrera en la profession de musica y su exit por muchos...
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Rock N Roll Rhythm And Blues
1,426 wordsRock music emerged during the mid- 1950 s to become the major popular musical form of young audiences in the United States and Western Europe. Its stylistic scope is too broad to be encompassed by any single definition; the only feature common to all rock music is a heavy emphasis on the beat. Rock n Roll, 1950 - 62 The primary source of rock n roll was rhythm and blues, an idiom popular among black audiences that combined elements of urban blues (in the structure, vocal style, and use of amplif...
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Hip Hop Culture Back And Forth
2,473 wordsThe Evolution of a Disc Jockey In The Hip-Hop Culture With the turn of the century, a musical evolution began. The phonograph was part of this musical change. It was a simple musical output device. The role of this musical component was greatly regarded as that of just a music player during the modernistic period. During the modern era, the world was changing from the traditional beliefs of more philosophical, social conscious, scientific ideas. This is when John Cage during the thirties came on...
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Hip Hop Culture Older Generations
2,510 wordsHip Hop &# 038; The Origin of Rap Music Nowadays if you ask most people to give a definition of rap, theyre likely to state that its the reciting of rhymes to the best of music. Its a form of expression that finds its roots imbedded deep within ancient African culture and oral tradition. Throughout history here in America there has always been some form of verbal acrobatics or jousting involving rhymes within the Afro-American community. Signifying, testifying, Shining of the Titanic, the Dozens...
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Buddy Holly Berne Convention
1,088 wordsProgression of Music From the 1940 s To the Present The progression of music from the 1940 s to the present has seen extremes, it has been controversial at times, traditional at times and inspirational at times, but never have the American people turned away music in its entirety. There have been times when parents did not approve of the music that their children chose to listen to, but the parents had never turned away music. Music has been criticized and promoted. Since the 40 s music has prog...
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