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Various Formats of Digital Audio

MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) format is "a type of audio and video compression with several standards. MP3 is a popular file...

European Cinematic Depiction of Gender from the 1920s to the Twenty First Century

story, mise-en-scene, editing, and music, they collectively provide a common theme that speaks of the uniqueness of the feminist e...

Identity Construct, Gender, and Sexuality

clearly defined socio-cultural parameters. Gauntlett (2002) states that in those societies where modernity is well developed...

Pre Stonewall America and Authors' Treatment of Gay Society Identity

government - harbored toward the homosexual population. Lumped together with such socially unsavory issues as Communism, Katz ill...

TV Show Production Plan for Tomorrow's Radio Fare

below. Table 1. The Monday Night Lineup BBC1 BBC2 TV1 London Channel 4 Five 20:30 Ground Force University Challenge Coronation ...

Mexican Identity and the Significance of Porfirio Diaz

really contingent on the efforts of the leadership that was around at the time. Meyer explains: "Porfirio D?az controlled the des...

Music of Ireland and the Chieftains

Chieftains I in 1964 (Hudson, 2005). According to Moloney, who is acknowledged to be the principal guiding light behind the grou...

Memory and Brain Effects of Classical Music

two separated mood dimensions - arousal and pleasantness - as they related to mood-dependent memory (MDM), having respondents spea...

Krickett Carpenter Case and Its Implications

lost his or her memory, only to meet up with the same people again? There are unusual stories about coincidences and how people wi...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens, National Identity, and Language

so adept at writing about them (Daunton). In the following we see Dickens describe the conditions and environment of Jo: "It is a...

Leisure Music

when I first heard this tune" aspect to it. Or maybe the student has other reasons for why music is a...

Processes of Gay Identity Development

has returned home for a visit with his mother and to reintroduce her to his lover, Wayne, who joins him at his childhood home. Nei...

The Case of Rap Music and Adorno's Mass Culture Theories

the offering of music or media, but more often this is merely window dressing and is really pseudo individualisation, meaning the ...

Information and Communications Technology Interview and Interpretation

a predicable change as may be expected if we were to apply the theories of Clark (et al, 1988). In terms of identify there are m...

Comparing Black Nationalism and Identity in Benedict Anderson's 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism' and the Film 'Gone With the Wind'

contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...

Constructionist Perspective of Identity

Gergen states that, "one cannot depend on a solid confirmation of identity, nor on comfortable patterns of authentic action (p. 14...

'The Old Guard' versus 1920 Avant Garde Music

From this artistic liberation emerged the avant-garde movement, which delighted in breaking the rules through unrestrained experim...

The Dreamers by Isak Dinesen and Identity

the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...

Early 20th Century's Neoclassical Music and its Anti Romantic Elements

codified and structured. Neoclassical forms were, in turn, a reaction against the idealism characterised by the Romantic ...

Resistance, Subculture, and Hip Hop

on ten characteristic features of hip hop in Australia, that this music genre represents an authentic subculture. Some of these po...

'Classical' and 'Pop' Gap That Was George Gershwin

a "serious" composer by the critics, they were extremely mindful that Gershwin did not orchestrate the first performance of Rhapso...

Dvorak and Brahms' Piano Quintets

any of his contemporaries, captured the "intimate communion that is the essence of chamber-music style" (Machlis, 1970, p. 128). T...

Effects of Music and Alcohol on Female Behavior in Nightclubs

is to observe the evolution of the night, to record the "behavior" of several women visitors to the night club scene, and to quest...

Theme of Identity Featured in Literary Works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Sandra Cisneros

there is the father, a man who feels a deep connection with the past, and perhaps more importantly, the Mexican Revolution. It is ...

Sixteenth Century Keyboard Instruments

the strings.6 The tangents were inserted into the key levers at the lower end, and the top end was flattened for contact with the...

Children's Neurology and the Effects of Music

to examine brain development to a degree that was never before possible (Strickland 100). For example, cerebral blood flow can be ...

A Comparison of Two Major Characters in Literature, Sophocles' Antigone and Shakespeare's Hamlet

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

Personal Identity According to Swinburne

of these issues is apt, Olson provides an explanation that is easier to comprehend for the average reader. Swinburnes first issu...

Art Music Composers and Jazz's Influence

the realm of art music during the course of his career, George Gershwin. While Stravinskys work shows the influence of jazz, it wa...

Importance of Setting to the Protagonists in Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell and Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

to the United States by way of some illegal documents and the assistance of a smuggler. Once on American soil, Jyoti receives a r...