American Music Essays and Term Papers

The Phonograph

Phonograph, also known as record player, electromechanical instrument for reproducing sound from a record. A record is a vinyl disk that has a spiral groove with tiny bumps on the walls of the groove; the bumps encode a musical or other type of recording. has four principal components: the ...

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy Ellington, American jazz composer, orchestrator, bandleader, and pianist, is considered to be the greatest composer in the history of jazz music and one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. He composed over 2000 works and performed numerous concerts during his musical ...

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Sonny's Blues

A captivating tale of a relationship between two troubling brothers in Harlem, "Sonny's Blues" is told from the perception of Sonny's brother, whose name is never mentioned. Baldwin's choice of Sonny's brother as a narrator is what makes "Sonny's Blues" significant in terms of illustrating the ...

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Watching an Indian Film with a Friend Who Has Never Seen One

Desislava LaFlamme SOCIOL 375L Lakshmi Srinivas March 24, 2011 Watching an Indian Film with a Friend Who Has Never Seen One. Recruiting someone for watching movie shouldn't be hard - I thought. First, I asked my most close friends who got excited when I mention movie watching, and then ...

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Bob Dylan and Eminem's Impact on Their Generation

This is a five page research paper discussing the impact of Bob Dylan and Eminem on their respective eras. Six sources. MLA. Bob Dylan and Eminem Every generation has its own musical sound that defines who they are and where they are on the time line both politically and socially. When one ...

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Scars of War

?Jeremy Rivera Dr. Hunte ENC-1102 2/16/21 The Scars of War Introduction Napalms flying left and right. The Vietnam War came to be among the most critical and longest wars in American history. It proposed a question, what drives the necessity for the purpose of engaging in war? Tim O' ...

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Ralph Ellison’s Life

Ralph Ellison, with only one book published in 1952, made himself among the top American novelists of his time. Is an individual a great writer if only one great novel is written? This is a question asked by many people concerning Ellison. Although this is a very controversial topic, history ...

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Lena Horne

Heather Donahue March 23, 2000 Humanities 15 Tues. & Thurs. 9:30 - 11 a.m. Page 1 was born on June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were Teddy and Edna Scottron Horne. After her father left her at the age of two in order to pursue his gambling career; her mother leaving soon after ...

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Jerry Garcia And The Grateful Dead

Jerome 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 ...

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MTV And The Madonna Phenomenon

"Madonna's intuitive grasp on the televisual world in which we live- of the medium's possibilities for engaging spectators in diverse ways- that in part accounts for her success. She is the supreme television heroine." (E. Ann Kaplan 271) "What are the main theories which we have studied ...

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Ch.23 Study Guide

1.Miguel Angel Asturias- A Nobel Prize wining novelist and poet from Guatemala. Wrote about his experience under a dictatorship. Established small-town life and a clash of cultures as themes 2.Frida Kahlo- Started painting in 1925 when she was hospitalized. Married Diego Rivera. Was inspired ...

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World War I Propaganda

The United States used propaganda to control what people thought and to create positive feelings towards World War I. The newspaper was used to release information that had sometimes been altered to glorify the war. Music and motion pictures were used to try to help the people understand why ...

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LA Confidential And Film Noir

One of the most influential film movements in the 1940’s was a genre that is known today as film noir. Film noir was a recognizable style of filmmaking, which was created in response to the rising cost of typical Hollywood movies (Buss 67). Film noir movies were often low budget films; they used ...

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The Hippie Movement That Arose From Vast Political Changes

Massive black rebellions, constant strikes, gigantic anti-war demonstrations, draft resistance, Cuba, Vietnam, Algeria, a cultural revolution of seven hundred million Chinese, occupations, red power, the rising of women, disobedience and sabotage, communes & marijuana: amongst this chaos, there ...

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Bob Marley

was a Jamaican singer, guitarist, and songwriter, and a pioneer of Jamaican reggae music. He was considered one of the greatest artists of his time and was the first Jamaican reggae performer to achieve significant international stardom. Marley’s career stretched back over 20 years. During ...

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Mexico

, in full United Mexican States (Spanish Estados Unidos Mexicanos), federal republic in North America, bounded on the north by the United States; on the east by the United States, the Gulf of , and the Caribbean Sea; on the south by Belize and Guatemala; and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. ...

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Eyes of the Beholder

The mind refers to that part of each of us that embodies our thoughts, hopes, desires, memories, beliefs, and experiences. Self expression through music allows creative outlets that are unfortunate for some, programs in public schools can help expand the horizons for these less fortunate children. ...

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The Romantic Eminem

English II E 27 May 2010 The Romantic Eminem “Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand up…” the line which made him famous. Marshall Bruce Mathers III better know as Eminem, or Slim Shady, is the white, modern day rapper that made it big from never giving up and rapping about the controversy in ...

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Media Stereotypes Of Minorities In America

In the Eye of the Beholder The Imaging of Minorities in America Certain things are nearly universal. They are actions that cut across lines of class, race, and ethnicity. Every morning, virtually every American gets up, looks at himself in the mirror, fixes himself up, and gets ready to face ...

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Funding for the Arts

In today’s education system, there is a lack of funding for the arts in public schools. Sufficient data exists to overwhelmingly support the belief that study and participation in the fine arts is a key component in improving learning throughout all academic areas. Evidence of its effectiveness ...

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