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Essays 271 - 300

Music Addressing Racial Prejudice and its Political Implications

me, and I sortve liked the idea of representing America, but I wasnt going over to apologize for the racist policies of America .....

Overview of Ethnomusicology

seen with a study on Chinese music by J van Aalst in 1884 and Japanese music with F T Piggotts Music and Musical Instruments of Ja...

Musical Representations of Various Eras

Robbins conceived, directed and choreographed West Side Story in 1957, which was written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim...

Leisure Music

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

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 ...

Cinematic Comedies and Sound's Role

theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...

Singer and Business Mogul Madonna

the success may be seen as a result of "street-smart business sense" (Harry Scolinos quoted in Grant, 1998). The initial beginning...

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...

The Influence of Cultural Developments on Visual Art, from the Mid-19th to the Mid-20th Century

early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Jazz Music and its History

comes in many variants: field hollers, levee camp hollers, prison work songs, street cries, and the like" (Gioia, 2005). It is rea...

'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...

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 ...

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 ...

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and Music

deal, especially the characters unique "voice," which is "ironic, eloquent, jazz-influenced, sometimes furious with outrage, yet a...

Production of 'Aida' by Giuseppe Verdi and Reaction to It

scenes," within the context of an exotic locale, in this case, ancient Egypt (Machlis 146). Aida concerns the love story of Rada...

How to Set Up a Music Festival

each of these sections. This will include finding the sites, ensuring there is suitable access for the traders, bands and vis...

Music Industry Survival and Development

they actually have taken the time to learn how to play a musical instrument. One can see why the music industry is important. Peop...

Modern Music Industry and Subcultures

The idea of resistance through the use of ritual is a paradigm that emerged from early works of the Birmingham School and would ga...

Empire Records Cinematic Analysis

Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...

Political Culture and Music of Haiti

shores of the US. It was 1974 and the US government was still allowing Haitians to freely enter the country as immigrants at that ...

A Letter Evaluating the Work of Beethoven

the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence (Machlis, 1970, p....

Sports and Music in Book III of Plato's The Republic

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

Writing about Hong Kong

wines and dines all visitors when they arrive in the country. For example, a sample fun evening out will see the excited travele...