Essays 31 - 60
In eight pages this research paper discusses jazz and the influence of female performers. Seven sources are cited in the bibliogr...
In five pages the jazz influences of Ann Patterson and her female band Maiden Voyage are examined particularly in terms of develop...
This paper considers how jazz was influenced by the artistry of Billie Holiday in six pages. Ten sources are cited in the bibliog...
In ten pages this paper discusses the jazz pioneers including James P. Johnson, W.C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington an...
In five pages this research paper presents an appreciation of jazz violin virtuoso Noel Pointer whose premature death at age 39 di...
where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...
As this suggests, their styles are quite different. Hawkins monopoly on the tenor sax ended in 1933 when he was playing with the...
the 1920s turned to the American Dream we know today, which involves the assumption that if we work hard we can have wealth, and w...
company (which took on the name Gus Giordano Dance Company) was televised live frequently on WTTW-TV, which was Chicagos public te...
the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...
comes in many variants: field hollers, levee camp hollers, prison work songs, street cries, and the like" (Gioia, 2005). It is rea...
In addition the school provides opportunities to engage in off-campus activities because the area of Southern Florida is such a ja...
for Columbia in the 1960s have generally been considered to be somewhat of a disappointment when compared to his early work for Bl...
was quickly transitioning from an agrarian lifestyle to one which centered around the cities. Lounges became favored places of en...
they will not have to repeat those classes when they study at the Berklee later (Jazz popularizer feels upbeat, 2003). The systems...
more jazz musicians will typically improvise simultaneously (Machlis 413). For all intents and purposes, Alex Blakes biography fo...
p. 6). This community was comprised of "a number of musicians, singers, stage and taxi dancers, and cabaret and dance hall proprie...
to the advent of jazz, improvisation was an integral part of European music, as the improvisational skills of such composers as Ba...
In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...
ongoing, carried in the people, but the symbols and landmarks, of the music and the culture it has influenced. The loss of the bui...
musicians fellow players gave quiet murmurs of approval or even whooped their appreciation at especially brilliant improvisation (...
Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...
The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...
This concert report offers a hypothetical example of how a student might describe a jazz concert that occurred at Yavapai College ...
This research paper offers a discussion of literature pertaining to the early history of jazz and the African influences that play...
This essay provides a hypothetical example of how a student might report on a jazz concert. The works summarized and analyzed incl...
This essay pertains to improvisation and composition in jazz and describes how both of these terms are utilized within jazz perfor...
This research paper describes the relationship between blues and jazz within the context of the history of these genres. The write...
attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceeding...
music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...