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phonograph - and when the record skipped, so did the sound synchronization. The results, predictably, were humorous - the movie-go...
mythos, Negroes were naturally more musical, more rhythmic, and better dancers than any other group. Therefore the studios scurrie...
In ten pages the history of Latin jazz is presented with a discussion of locations such as New York City and important musicians s...
was three years old (Bailey, 2002). Although she was born in Virginia, she grew up in New York. In fact, she only lived in the sou...
incorporated into the traditional Spanish flamenco, which originated with the gypsies in the Andalucia region of southern Spain.5 ...
performing with others but always alone. They talked the talk of jazz, built communal rites around using the jazzmans drugs, and ...
In ten pages this research paper examines how jazz and folk music profoundly influenced this Russian composer as he works clearly ...
In 1947, Armstrong was placed in a group of jazz musicians, and they played a semblance of the old New Orleans style type jazz ("A...
In twelve pages this paper examines how reality is perceived in the literary works Jazz by Toni Morrison, Waiting for Godot by Sam...
Fitzgerald, had acquired a bad reputation in Paris. When they werent on drinking binges, they were flirting with members of the o...
Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...
The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...
comes in many variants: field hollers, levee camp hollers, prison work songs, street cries, and the like" (Gioia, 2005). It is rea...
they will not have to repeat those classes when they study at the Berklee later (Jazz popularizer feels upbeat, 2003). The systems...
p. 6). This community was comprised of "a number of musicians, singers, stage and taxi dancers, and cabaret and dance hall proprie...
where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...
the floor tom-tom- for dynamic effect" (Alfaro). The group would break into a swing change and bounce back into a "hard Latin chop...
musicians fellow players gave quiet murmurs of approval or even whooped their appreciation at especially brilliant improvisation (...
won the White House (War, prosperity and depression, 2005). The first two years of Hardings administration continued Wilsons econo...
years playing with the Miles Davis quintet and Davis was a tremendous influence for him (Murph 54). Herbie once observed that Dav...
In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...
throughout the novel. This is adventure and romance and in essence offers up a very tense story that is filled with emotions, fear...
it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was" (Hemingway 13). He is a man lost in a world with no dire...
status of the individual" (Burns, 1969, p. 395). The context of culture changed as cities expanded and increasing trade brought in...
and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...
of modernism, with particular emphasis upon modernisms elitist social, political and economic structure of upper and lower classif...
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...
As the Renaissance reflected the continued influence of the Crusades, it also sprouted a period of romanticism that was more than ...
Modern Design Famed architect Phillip Johnson tells students that modernism has debts to past styles, but architecture is changin...