Essays 61 - 90
This paper consists of 12 pages and chronicles those significant performers whos contributions are often overlooked in other books...
In 1947, Armstrong was placed in a group of jazz musicians, and they played a semblance of the old New Orleans style type jazz ("A...
In 6 pages this paper examines the influential jazz musician John Coltrane in a consideration of his Islam conversion and his ques...
In twelve pages this paper examines confrontation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and in Toni Morrison's Jazz. One othe...
result blurs the lines of what is real or not but the book makes it clear that for Mingus, at the moment of his telling it, it was...
musicians fellow players gave quiet murmurs of approval or even whooped their appreciation at especially brilliant improvisation (...
won the White House (War, prosperity and depression, 2005). The first two years of Hardings administration continued Wilsons econo...
p. 6). This community was comprised of "a number of musicians, singers, stage and taxi dancers, and cabaret and dance hall proprie...
In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...
years playing with the Miles Davis quintet and Davis was a tremendous influence for him (Murph 54). Herbie once observed that Dav...
Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...
Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...
the floor tom-tom- for dynamic effect" (Alfaro). The group would break into a swing change and bounce back into a "hard Latin chop...
they will not have to repeat those classes when they study at the Berklee later (Jazz popularizer feels upbeat, 2003). The systems...
Miles Davis, and many of the works which came from those periods are still considered classics today (Biography of Miles Davis, 20...
attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceeding...
include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...
mythos, Negroes were naturally more musical, more rhythmic, and better dancers than any other group. Therefore the studios scurrie...
was three years old (Bailey, 2002). Although she was born in Virginia, she grew up in New York. In fact, she only lived in the sou...
incorporated into the traditional Spanish flamenco, which originated with the gypsies in the Andalucia region of southern Spain.5 ...
performing with others but always alone. They talked the talk of jazz, built communal rites around using the jazzmans drugs, and ...
This essay provides a hypothetical example of how a student might report on a jazz concert. The works summarized and analyzed incl...
This concert report offers a hypothetical example of how a student might describe a jazz concert that occurred at Yavapai College ...
5 pages and 3 sources. This paper outlines the different elements of Black American history, with a focus on the significant role...
social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...
The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...
lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...
in 1515. Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra at...
women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...
In three pages this paper examines the observation by J. Baldwin that James Joyce 'is right about history being a nightmare--But i...