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Edgard Varese's Music

(Edgard Varese: Father of Electronic Music, 2002). In many ways, what gives Vareses music is particular structure is his early ...

African Hominids and the Determination of Phylogenetic Relationships

these approaches and then to explore their relationship to the phylogenetic classification of the African hominids. Forey a...

AIDS and Africa

for them and the hospital space is needed for others (Scarce Money, Few Drugs, Little Hope, 2002). This seems horrific...

New Orleans' Mardi Gras Carnival

also makes the point that there was, in the 1900s, a strict divide between Creole and Black culture in New Orleans, maintained as ...

Sub Saharan Gold Trade and Islam

of the cultural impacts resulting from the extensive trade which characterized the period revolved around controlling the trade ro...

Emily Dickinson, Popular Music, and Death Fascination

17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...

Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart and Mark Mathabane's Kaffir Boy

In five pages the South African apartheid experiences in these texts are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources list...

Deryck Cooke's Vindications: Essays on Romantic Music.

This research report looks at some of Cooke's writings. The thesis of this paper is that Cooke's ideas are rather unique. This ele...

Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe and Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

In five pages these two African novels are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources listed....

Two Views of African Women from Fiction Works

In this essay consisting of three pages the dramatizations of African women as depicted in Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen a...

Jazz Saxophonist John Coltrane and His Important Influence Upon Music

In 6 pages this paper examines the influential jazz musician John Coltrane in a consideration of his Islam conversion and his ques...

Voice Music Pedagogy and Baritones

In five pages the scientific singing art is explored particularly as it relates to the range of baritone and considers voice in te...

Role of African Nationalists

In a research paper consisting of five pages the internal skirmishes and lacking international support are just two of the problem...

Demographic and Marketing Issues in Nigeria

This paper analyzes the demographic, business, and travel information relevant to planning an investment in the African country of...

Africa Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley

This paper consists of nine pages and examines the African exploration of Sir Henry Morton Stanley ad featured in The Exploration ...

Late 19th Century Character Development and the Importance of Landscape

In seven pages this paper discusses how character development during this time period was influenced by landscape in a considerati...

Resistance to Colonialism by Africans

In this paper consisting of five pages a unique perspective on African colonialism and the resistance to Western influence by the ...

Life and Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

the employ of the Archbishop of Salzburg to take up a career as a free-lance artist in Vienna, a shadow fell over his career that ...

'The Interesting Narrative' by Olaudah Equiano and 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe

they do not inflict slavery upon the people, they do inflict oppression that is very similar to slavery. In the first chapter o...

Tools and 'King Leopold's Ghost' by Adam Hochschild

and far-reaching. Defined as a breakthrough for human rights, the significance of his account speaks to the notion of struggle am...

Fan Culture Ideology and Music

dominant and subordinate ideologies, cultural ideology as a whole is something which exists in a multiplicity and its disparate el...

Generational Effects of Rock and Roll Music

to understanding the cultural changes it brought. The 1960s was a decade defined by race relations. Thus, it is interesting to not...

South African Victimization and the Novels of Nadine Gordimer

In twelve pages this paper critically analyzes the novels of Nadine Gordimer in a consideration of characterization and the victim...

Summary of Africa And Africans In The Making Of The Atlantic World 1400-1800 by John Thornton

go against historical accounts of the African arrival by asserting that they did not come to the Americas as a result of slavery; ...

Life and Music of Guitarist Jimi Hendrix

In nine pages this research paper examines the brief life and lasting impact of Jimi Hendrix and his immortal guitar rock. Six so...

African Philosophy Bantu

In five pages universalistic and particularistic perspectives are employed in a discussion of African philosophical aspects as rel...

Slave Narratives and the Portrayal of White Europeans

as I thought, in so savage a manner; for I had never seen among my people such instances of brutal cruelty. The closeness of the ...

African Writers V.Y. Mudimbe, Sembene Ousmane, and Mariana Ba Compared

which was published in 1960, Ousmane examines the topics of race and class in two distinctly political ways. One approach that he ...

A Robert Staples Letter

In nine pages this research paper presents a letter to the author of The Myth of the Black Matriarchy in which the writer agrees w...

International Sanctions and Apartheid Economic Constraints and the Response of the Government

is economic disruption" (pp. 119). The important intent of the sanctions against South Africa were to disturb both the economic c...