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Spanish Traditional DancesSevillanas is believed to be an old Castilian folk dance. It is a very popular dance for couples of all ages. You will see it danced frequently by Women wearing a long dress with frills, normally it has short-sleeves and it is two-coloured like a green dress with white frills. The Men wear black ...
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TahitiThe 1988 population census found a total of about 190,000 people in French Polynesia. However the criteria used for defining the racial groups can only approximate a breakdown of: 70% Polynesian, 12% European, 10% Polynesian/European, five per-cent Chinese, and three percent Polynesian/Chinese. ...
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Robert Hunter had his poetic beginnings in the Palo Alto, CA coffeehouse scene in the mid-sixties. It was there that he began writing poetry and found his future song writing partner Jerry Garcia.
Although Hunter had been writing poetry for several years, his career did not begin in earnest until ...
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InsanityEveryone in the world has done something in his or her life that can be viewed as being abnormal or insane, whether they admit to it or not. What one person sees as being normal may be totally weird to another. For example, on the east coast of the United States, people put gravy on their french ...
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Louis Armstrongwas famous around the world for his jazz
interperitations on the trumpet and the many styles of jazz he produced
and played. Not to mention, he also had many great accomplishments
throughout his allustrious career.
"Armstrong was the seminal artist of jazz history -- the first to
combine trumpet ...
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A Touch Of JazzWhen I hear people talking cheerfully of "Negro music" or the Africa roots of jazz; he often wonders what in the world they can be talking about. What Negro music? What part of Africa? What kind of jazz? Africa is groups than any comparable land mass. Not all Africans are Negroes, and not all ...
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Mama Lola: An AnalysisIn the ethnographic story Mama Lola, by Karen McCarthy Brown, the method of vodou is revealed as a great healing process and one that is great for the mind, body and soul. It is the story of many different people that come into contact with vodou and how their lives are lived with the spirits of ...
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Plains IndiansFor many tribes of whose bison-hunting culture flourished during the 18th and 19th centuries, the sun dance was the major communal religious ceremony . . . the rite celebrates renewal - the spiritual rebirth of participants and their relatives as well as the regeneration of the living earth with ...
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John Lennonwas a great song writer and musician. He played the rhythm
guitar, the piano, and sang. He was in the most popular group in the history of
rock music. In 1959, John founded this group, called The Beatles.
The original Beatles were , Paul McCartney, George Harrison,
and Pete Best.
Brian ...
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The Influence Rock And Rap Music Has On Young PeopleMany young people of this generation between the ages of ten and twenty live for music. They have become infatuated with music as if nothing else matters. After reading Allan Bloom's essay “Music”, Venise Berry's, “Redeeming the Rap Music Experience”, and Barbara Dority's “The War on Rock and Rap ...
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Arlo Guthriewas and still is one of the most distinctive singer-songwriters of this century. He said, "I was born in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY in the summer of 1947 - with a guitar in my hands (D'Addario)." Since his father was a legendary folk musician, Woody Guthrie, that is pretty close to the truth. His ...
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Greek ActorsThe actors in ancient tragedies were hired and paid by the state and assigned to the tragic poets probably by lot. By the middle of the fifth century three actors were required for the performance of a tragedy. In descending order of importance of the roles they assumed they were called ...
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Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know(sin-uh-muh-tahg'-ruh-fee) Cinematography is the technique and art of
making motion pictures, which are a sequence of photographs of a single
subject that are taken over time and then projected in the same sequence to
create an illusion of motion. Each image of a moving object is ...
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There Seems To Be A Need For Violence In Society!It gained through violent behavior is only temporary and it lasts
until the time of revenge comes around.
Violence was glorified hundreds of years ago. Back then it was a
form of a pure entertainment. We know how among ancient Romans, gladiators
(usually slaves or captives trained for the ...
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Duke EllingtonEdward 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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BoB DylanRegarding significant musical movements in history,
the twenty first century, few were more important than the
took shape in the mid-nineteen hundreds. One of the
leaders of this
revolution was Robert Allen Zimmerman, known by his popular
assumed
name, . Born in 1941 in Minnesota, Dylan grew ...
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The Downfall Of Music TodayThe nineties began with the grunge scene, an alternative style of rock and roll that revolutionized rock music today. This music that was once praised by MTV was gradually pushed out to make way for the sound of generic rap beats, watered down heavy metal and sugar coated pop tunes.
The pattern ...
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Kurt CobainKurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20,1967 in the town of Aberdeen,
Washington. Aberdeen is on the west coast and is about 108 miles southwest of
Seattle. Aberdeen is a dreary place with about seven feet of rain a year. Kurt
was born to Mrs. Wendy Cobain and to Mr. Donald Cobain. Wendy ...
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The Crystal Cave: MerlinThe most important and knowledgeable people in history are not born
with their talents or contributions. They, as everyone does, need a person
to give them the option and the encouragement to achieve their fate. In
The Crystal Cave, Mary Stewart portrays the life of Merlin, the main
character, ...
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Cinematography Everything You Need To KnowCinematography: Everything You Need To Know
Cinematography is the technique and art of making motion pictures, which
are a sequence of photographs of a single subject that are taken over time
and then projected in the same sequence to create an illusion of motion.
Each image of a moving object is ...
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