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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 ...

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...

Violent Song Lyrics/Teen Aggression

the detrimental emotional and psychological effects that this type of music has on young people. However, besides examining the su...

Reflecting on Two Ethnomusicology Articles

wider section at the bottom, which is called the "stomach" (Merriam 81). In addition to details about drum construction, Merriam ...

Overview of Merriam's Shrew

considerable difficulty identifying each individual species, inasmuch as they share so many common characteristics. With the exce...

A Biography of Alan Dershowitz

many interests and relationships that have created the vocal and thoughtful individual who goes by the name of Alan Morton Dershow...

LEADERSHIP, FORD AND MULALLY

were cropping up. He used his charisma and charm to become involved, much as he did at Boeing Inc., where he was CEO before coming...

Impressionism/Music & Art

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

Evolution Of Gospel Music In America

anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...

RAP MUSIC AND PERPETUATION OF MISOGYNY

couple of studies dealing with gansta rap and its impact on adolescents most likely to be affected by it. Well then move to the ot...

Behavior of Consumers and Music's Impact

In eight pages this paper examines how retail environment and the choice of products are influenced by music and how this impacts ...

Scott Joplin & George Gershwin

time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...

Syncretic Music

the accompaniment of the "Indian sitar, the rebab or bowed choraphone, the suling or bamboo flute, the gendang, kenong and saron o...

Necessity of Music Education

disturbing since music has been shown to be important to child development "physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially and ...

Marketing Mix of United Kingdom's Royal Mail

the consumers. An alterative paradigm of liberalisation has also been proposed, and when looking at postal services in terms of th...

UK Ice Cream Market Analysis

likely to make impulse purchases than they are to plan to buy premium ice cream to take home. The company provides logo-laden, fr...

Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun: A Sociology Paper

the question "what is wrong with you?" Chris Cornell first seems to state that mankind has been infiltrated by evil when he refers...

Blues and James Baldwin’s Short Story “Sonny’s Blues”

their late mother, who was the familys support system. Of her, the narrator would recall, "I always see her wearing pale blue" (B...

Structure in Music

the element of chance, such as the chance imperfections that are seen in a finely produced piece of paper, such as one having a wa...

Data Use in CRM

technology" (Clow and Baack, 2007; p. 360). CRM is most effective when "customers have highly differentiated needs, highly differ...

Addiction Theories, Definitions and Issues

basis. Rather than automatically discount such plans, practitioners must always evaluate these tentative suicide plans and the int...

Sociological Theories and Mass Media

This research paper pertains to the way in which media influences society from the conflict, structural functionalist and symbolic...

United Kingdom Machinery Construction Company JCB

a business, but can be seen to encompass the most major. Strategy Michael Porter has argued there are two way to compete; these ...

Objective of Symbolic Interactionism

the next - and even one country from the next. While people may share various cultural traits, there are still both subtle and ex...

Symbolic Violence and Reporting

habits the listening to the news and the reading of papers with reports may be seen as an influencing factor, propagating the mass...

Structures, Habitus, Practices by Pierre Bourdieu and 7 Major Themes

same time united yet also in contrast. III. HABITUS One of Bourdieus most famous beliefs, the concept of habitus reflects how pe...

An Analysis of a Chamber Music Concert

lyricism and classical composition techniques" have made his music internationally acclaimed (Srul Irving Glick, 2003). In Glicks...

Topics on Music

In four term papers of three pages each musical topics such as music and brain function; anthropology and music; memory, learning ...

Music Industry Changes Resulting from Digital and Analog Music

Smaller and easily transportable audiocassettes stored music onto acetate tape that was magnetically transmitted (Patrick, 2001). ...

Calypso

in the call and answer format, with matching phrases with the use of many V - I cadences and then open cadences to allow the respo...