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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...

Social Change and Rock Music

- and record labels - can break with tradition to experiment with a variety of types of expressions meant to reflect the culture (...

Four Insights into the Meaning of Life

responsibility. He feels stifled by his Louisiana environment and longs to leave. He knows that this involvement will strengthen h...

Musical Representations of Various Eras

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

Overview of Hindustani Music

it possible for Indian music to spread all over the globe while the media, in "adopting" people like Ravi Shankar, has intensified...

Disco Music and History

Vietnam and it fought against social constraints placed upon the individual. It was a time of violent outbreaks for peace and for ...

African American Hip Hop and its Influence

music, or existed in the industry of music, but has actually proven that it is the driving force for a great deal of mainstream cu...

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...

Film Adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and the Mood Function of Music

scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...

Comparative Analysis of Music in the Czech Republic and the US

in the new land, combining instruments and styles for a new sort of folk music. In relationship to the most classical type of mu...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

An Examination of Baroque Musical Forms

Motet While Gregorian chants were intended entirely for liturgical and worship purposes, this was not the case for later Renaiss...

Michael Jackson, The King of Pop

of Pop. He wanted the title. There are musicians who are dubbed one thing or another by fans, and then, as in the Michael Jackson...

Indian and Sikh Music

the classical Indian vocal music that comprises Sikh services (Singh and Singh). As this indicates, in Sikhism, music constitutes ...

History of the Guitar

guitar were when a hunting bow was paired with a tortoise shell to create a tar or sting instrument that was plucked (Hartmetz et ...

The 24th Annual Arkansas Bean Fest and Annual Outhouse Races

worse as the actual race begins. The music at the festival is the most fun of all. It features an eclectic mix of styles includin...

Impressionism/Music & Art

characterizes both the music and the art of the impressionist movement. As a term, "impressionism" derives from a painting by Cl...

Moulin Rouge (2001) and Setting a Cinematic Mood

Berkeleys choreography book, he creates mood through unusual camera angles, and heightens the films pace through "speeded-up, step...

"I'm Sexy and I Know It" - An Examination of Feminist Themes

more aware of themselves than they are of one another. Finally, at the behest of their leader, they begin to walk down the boardwa...

THE DOORS, DAVE MATTHEWS BAND AND BUSINESS MODELS

around, its no longer the sure path to stardom for a band. Furthermore, there are a variety of musical magazines, segmented to eve...

Analysis of Merriam's Preface

were the focus of their analyses (Merriam "Definitions" 193). Furthermore, as Jaap Kunst pointed out in 1950 text, musicology "doe...

Life and Short Stories of Ring Lardner

who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...

Connection Between Sexuality and Pop Music

many different perceptions of morality. Therefore, without necessarily discussing the morality aspects of sexuality in music, the...