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Music & Musicians Essays and Term Papers
Motown’s Evolution And With Emphasis On Its WomenInside, the front office near the receptionist’s desk there are vintage copies of Jet and Ebony, magazines geared towards the black population. The switchboard looks like something out of the original “Dragnet,” with quarter-inch plugs and manual phone patching to route calls. Upstairs, Gordy’s ...
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Bluegrass MusicBluegrass is a style of country and western music that developed
during the 1940s, based on traditional ballads, fiddle tunes, and gospel
hymnody of the southern Appalachian Mountains in the United States. It
evolved from the backwooks, blue-collar music of the South, particularly
Appalachia. ...
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Jim Morrison: The Lizard KingJim Morrison said once, “A Doors concert is a public meeting called by us for a special dramatic discussion. When we perform, we’re participating in the creation of a world and we celebrate that with the crowd.”(Hopkins, XI). As in the previous the Doors were a great band who performed and ...
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Pearl Jam, Everclear, And No DoubtAlmost everyone has a favorite band. People buy CD's and tapes to not
only listen to the music that they like, but to support that band. There are
many, many different types of music, and usually a certain band will fit into a
specific type of music. I listen mostly to alternative/grunge music. ...
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Stone Temple PilotsAlright, so here is what I know about STP. The are a
band that was formed in San Diego in 1988. Weiland hooked up with Robert Deleo
at a show in California and then picked up Eric Kretz. and then after finally
convincing Dean Deleo to come to California They were officially known as Mighty
Joe ...
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The Beatles And The Sex Pistols: A StudyRock 'n' roll is a most interesting subject that can create all types of arguments, usually arguments that give way to questions on who was the greatest and who was the most influential of all time. These questions are practically impossible ...
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Jimi Hendrix And Jimmy PageRecognized as two of the most creative and influential musicians of the 20th century, pioneered the explosive popularity of the electric guitar. Their innovative style of combining fuzz, feedback and controlled distortion created a new musical form. The unique musical language that was created ...
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Review Of Gyorgi Ligeti's Danse MacarbeiThis piece is a lesson in polytonality, dissonance, and complexity. The
first thing heard is an imitation of a car horn that seems designed to grab hold
of the listener. If I were inattentive before this piece, I certainly was wide
awake when it was over. Ligeti seems to have sculpted a piece ...
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Acculturation: The Beginning Of Music EducationA detailed synopsis of the guidance of young children from Absorption to Purposeful Response.
Early is the best time to start children with an enriched musical background. The earlier the child starts to hear and learn about music, the more enriched and fulfilling the child’s experience of music ...
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Modern Music CompositionComposition has been an ever-changing entity in our society. Music
composition is also a very alternating subject of study. You have to keep up to
date when you wish to compose a piece of music. This is strictly due to the
progression of music in this day in age. If you fail to study, the music ...
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The BluesWhen was brought to Chicago it became a more powerful, hard-edged type of music, but kept its original form. This consisted of the two basic kinds of traditional blues: the Slow Blues and the Fast Blues. The names do not define the tempo of the two, because both can be played either way. The Slow ...
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History Of Rock And RollPunk rock developed in the United States out of the raw and energetic music adored and played by garage bands of the mid-sixties. Many of these garage bands were started by kids in their teens who hardly knew how to play simple chords on a guitar or bang away at drums or cymbals in their own ...
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Music CensorshipDuring the Doors concert in Miami, in 1969, lead singer Jim Morrison,
"did lewdly and lasciviously expose his penis and shake it. . ." (Rosen et al.
90). Today, Billy Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day, bares all at his
concert in Philadelphia (Bernstein 95). The eccentric Courtney Love ...
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Count Basie, an American jazz pianist and bandleader, lived from 1904 to 1984. Basie was a leading musician of the swing era (1930s and early 1940s). Basie led one of the first jazz big bands, which featured a number of outstanding soloists and arrangers. The Basie band was famous for its rhythm section, ...
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Silverchair: Neon Ballroom (epic)Silverchair: Neon Ballroom (epic)
The three members of Australia's Silverchair aren't high school boys anymore. Really, it doesn't brother me that these little Aussie fellas made a friggin' mint doing a cute little Nirvanable grunge act back when they were 14 years old. Hey, good, just like ...
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Music And The Global PerspectiveThe global perspective of music: we live in an increasingly smaller
“global village.” With advance in worldwide transportation and
communication and with increasingly mobile societies, it seems not only
appropriate but also necessary to develop a global perspective of music. A
global ...
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Personal Writing: A Beck ConcertUsually, when you know something is going to be a big success, you
go for it, try your best. Not this time. At a Beck concert, everything was
a big mess! It was a concert that was filled, almost all the tickets were
sold. For what-ever reason that the band had, it was a really big "screw
up". The ...
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Here Comes The Story Of The HurricaneBob Dylan writes about a true story in “Hurricane.” This is the story of Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter. He was a middleweight boxer who was wrongfully convicted of three murders. He spent 19 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Three people were shot in a barroom. Carter and a young ...
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The Life Of Deadheads And Music Of The Grateful Dead"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau
In 1967, Timothy Leary persuaded America's youth to “tune in, turn
on, and drop out.” ...
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Hawaiian MusicIdeas and interest in the music and dance of Hawaii, on my part, extend largely from the fact that my mother has always loved it and her reasons for it was the fact that she grew up around it. My grandfather, her father, used to give lessons on playing the Hawaiian guitar. Over the years, it has ...
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Industrial MusicRock and roll is dead. It's a fact. During the eighties romp of techno
and fashion bands, people forgot all about it. In the late eighties and early
nineties alternative music tried to save rock and roll, but it was too big of a
category. If a band didn't sing country or rap, they were ...
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The BeatlesWhen people hear the name "" most people think of lead
singer, John Lennon. However, the role of Paul McCartney is often
overlooked. It was McCartney, not Lennon who was the driving force behind
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John Lennon and Paul McCartney were in many bands together before
the forming of the Beatles. ...
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The Verve Pipe: The Freshman - AnalysisWhen I was young I knew everything
and she a punk who rarely took advice
now I'm guilt stricken,
sobbing with my head on the floor
stop a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice now
I can't be held responsible
cause she was touching her face
I wont be held responsible
she ...
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Music And The Civil WarThroughout time music has been a form of communication between
people of all ages. Franklin County, PA and Augusta County, VA were no
exception. The musical community thrived in these two counties giving a
number of public performances. Before the war musical performances were
local social ...
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Reflections On The Bocelli Concert, April 15, 1999On April 15,I had the good fortune to attend Andrea Bocelli's concert at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim. Although I have attended classical concerts and operas in the past, this was my first since having begun voice classes. With my own experiences as a beginning voice student, I was able to ...
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