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Beat Goes on for Cuba's Rhythmic Culture of Music

blending of West African rhythms with melodies from southern Spain (Roberts 4). This created the clave, which is typically a 3-2 ...

Dancing and Fela Anikulapo's Music

This 4 page paper gives an overview of how African beats and music have influenced dance. This paper includes Fela Anikulapo's mus...

Mainstream Society, Underground Music, and African American Culture

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

Cuba's Economic Development

In seven pages Cuba's economy is considered in terms of industries that have kept the country going despite the U.S. embargo. Nin...

Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus

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...

The Culture of a Corporation

all, over time" (1998, p.60). Smith claims that managers have a difficult task if they want to change the organizational culture ...

Economic Life in Castro's Cuba

Fidel Castro claims that Cuba is moving toward a free market. This paper discusses Cuba's economy and the validity of that claim. ...

Impact Of Lifting The Embargo On Cuba

would benefit the U.S. economy, in general, and Floridas economy, in particular (Lynch, 2003). Lynch (2003) estimates the embarg...

Violent Song Lyrics/Teen Aggression

the detrimental emotional and psychological effects that this type of music has on young people. However, besides examining the su...

Impressionism/Music & Art

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

Evolution Of Gospel Music In America

anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...

Comparing On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Go by John Clellon Holmes

In five pages this paper examines these two literary examples of the Beat Generation in a consideration of Stofsky's imaginary tri...

Longfellow, Whitman and Dickinson

A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...

Scott Joplin & George Gershwin

time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...

Modern Greek Culture: Music

This 3 page paper gives an overview of modern Greek music such as rebetiko. This paper includes discussions of culture through mus...

Music of Ancient Greece and Rome

nothing terribly convincing (48). It might be prudent to look at some early poets. There is evidence of someone called Mimnermus ...

Rap Music's Culture and History

was said about Rock and Roll when it first became popular. However a single factor, whatever the opinion one holds regarding RAP i...

Twentieth Century Cultural Influence of Rock n Roll Music

In six pages this research paper discusses the relationship forged between rock and roll music and the culture of the twentieth ce...

Rap Music

In 6 pages this paper philosophically analyzes rap and alternative music's impact upon cultures in a consideration of genre and su...

Contemporary Cuba and Economic Conditions

In five pages Cuba's economy is examined in terms of historical and political perspectives. Six sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Cuba, Mexico, and Revolution Causes

In five pages this paper examines Cuba's and Mexico's revolutions and the role played by nationalism with poverty factors also con...

Cuba and Democratic Government

In six pages the possibility of a democratic government in Cuba after the death of Premier Fidel Castro is examined in terms of U....

2 Countries and Human Rights

political opposition, it is doing so by making public examples of dissidents rather than acting covertly....

Caribbean Community and Cuba

Cuba, the largest nation in the Caribbean, has always had a strong influence on the Hispanic portion of the region. This paper dis...

The Sociological Importance of Timba

the significant cultural role played by the timba musical genre in Cuban society, it is firstly important to understand the politi...

Structure in Music

the element of chance, such as the chance imperfections that are seen in a finely produced piece of paper, such as one having a wa...

Necessity of Music Education

disturbing since music has been shown to be important to child development "physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially and ...

Syncretic Music

the accompaniment of the "Indian sitar, the rebab or bowed choraphone, the suling or bamboo flute, the gendang, kenong and saron o...

Hernandez/Buena Vista Social Club

Other" (Hernandez 63). Cooders own statements, as quoted by Hernandez, support this position. Another point made by Hernandez is...

Movies/Then & Now

theater environment, that is most often accused of encouraging crime. Then, as now, the majority of the people ignored the naysaye...