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James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man and Identity

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

The Divergence of Country and Folk Music? ?

music brought to the country by Anglo-Celtic immigrants (Malone, 1968, 1). This music was tremendously influenced, however, by Af...

MUSIC AND ITS IMPACT ON AMERICAN CULTURE

that provides ethnic minorities (and even poor whites) an opportunity to speak their minds and their feelings (Reeves, 2007). Over...

African American Music

in this case the whites, because the white people were "sufficiently uncommitted to the values of European culture to make such a...

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Blues of the African-American Experience

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

Jimi Hendrix, the Counter Music Revolution, and the 1960s

black colloquialism for sex) and dance (Isserman and Kazin 92). The sexually charged performances of Elvis Presley singing black ...

Preparing Children to Take Music Lessons

in reaching deaf and blind children who would otherwise tune out. When used to help children learn basic skills, it is referred to...

Edgard Varese

it is not a work that may be argued as influential. It may be argued that his dissatisfaction and frustrations in his personal lif...

Does Hip Hop Harm Black Americans?

and its signature musical expression, rap music, which evolved from the "African American, Afro-Caribbean and Latino communities o...

Women in Rock and Country Genres

direct attacks at those who scorn them (e.g. Taylor Swift). Instead, todays country music stars talk to magazines about diet, exer...

Music as Symbolic Behavior/Alan P. Merriam

"symbols," and their relationship to art and its abstract nature. Having established a basis for discussing symbolism, specific ...

Listening to Music in an Active Fashion

expressive qualities of the music such as the pieces themes and melodies, the texture of the instruments and arrangement, as well ...

Music During the Romantic Era

swung between the desire to keep emotion under the control of reason and the desire for free, uninhibited expression (Machlis, 197...

Developing Children's Memory by Using Music

planets from the sun for instance memorize this sentence: Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Nocturnal Purposes (thus Mercury,...

Music and Sex

ad and an indirect effect on attitudes towards the brand (Jones, Stanaland and Gelb, 1998). Their own study revealed that women h...

Music CD Sales in Australia and the Impact of P2P File Sharing

this paper is to try to answer this question, and to determine if free downloading is, indeed, music piracy. Well also examine wha...

Designing Research; Why Do Music Users Download from Illegal Sources?

is important to determines why the illegal downloads are so important and what the record companies could do to increase sales of ...

Dallas and Fort Worth's 4 Live Musical Performances

to consume him. The audience could not help but to be drawn into his world for a while. Audience/Atmosphere The audience itself...

Evolution of Rap Music in France

both French and American rappers see themselves as expressing the frustration and anger of oppressed minorities towards establishe...

Christian Worship Music and Theology

of worship. Canticles are a part of todays liturgy in the Roman Catholic Church" and "The first written chants were associated wit...

Cold War Ideology and Music

that was more accommodating to the US. At its height, the congress for Cultural Freedom had offices in 35 countries, which frequen...

Changes in the Music Industry

to the forefront. It serves as a good example of new problems and ethics of music sharing. Simply, it is now easier for people to ...

Non-Western & Western Music

"Cubop," an "appellation (that) aptly symbolizes the new equipollent level of cross-cultural musical integration that differentiat...

John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie

Pioneering jazz great Dizzy Gillespie is the focus of this research paper consisting of five pages in which jazz elements and the ...

Black Poetry and Literature and the Blues

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the relationship between black poetry and literature with jazz and blues music with...

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...

Music of the Middle East

In five pages this paper examines the musical styles and instruments that are popular in the Middle East along with a consideratio...

Music Instruction and Block Scheduling

In fourteen pages music instruction and the impact of block scheduling are discussed in terms of how this design can address certa...

Musical Shakespeare

or not music evokes images which have a significant impact upon mans conduct, in terms of virtue and morality. There is an old sa...

Music Instruction and the Method of Shinichi Suzuki

In five pages this paper examines the Shinichi Suzuki music instruction approach that advocates introducing children to music at a...