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World Music of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

common between music of the world. The student can, for example, quote musicologist Bruno Nettl and his works, that basically stat...

American Identity Concept and Benjamin Franklin

of his definition of self as it relates to Americans is scattered and often vague. Bearing this in mind we turn to the philosophic...

Self Identity According to David Hume

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

India, Africa, and the Effects of European Music

of music is the inference of influence from similarity. For example. Nettle (1986) uses the example of a Jamaican song that has rh...

Psychology and Identity Approaches

people and in some way negates the assumption of uniqueness. Yet, psychologists recognize that while people are unique, there are ...

Indian Music and the Tabla Drums

the emission of harmonics(Courtney, 2001). Musicians play the tabla (or a smaller one at least) by placing it in their la...

Young People Suffering from Seizures and Construction of Identity

particular illness. An excellent example is gay men with AIDS. Due to their own perception of what AIDS involves, many gay men c...

Teens and Negative Influence of Music

from this close, intact family, there is certainly a lack of discipline. The lax attitude towards the children is indicative of a ...

Identity and Gender Reflections in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

Composer Frederic Chopin's Life and Music

falls in love with the young Robert LeBrun and befriends the old pianist Mademoiselle Reisz, whose music arouses in Edna "the very...

Ireland's Version of Masefield's 'Sea Fever' and Barnby's Setting Of Tennyson's 'Crossing The Bar'

poems took on an even greater sense of emotion with each mans haunting melody, clearly expanding the meaning of the words. "Every...

French Composer Oliver Messiaen

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the life of this French composer and analyzes his music in terms of his uses of bir...

Identity Search in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

his true intellect becomes completely clouded over and his ability to understand who and what he is becomes an even more distant p...

Methods of Stress Reduction Access Report

In eight pages relieving employee stress is discovered and suggested methods include holiday parties, fitness center access, music...

Electronic Music History

Debussy advocated the "emancipation of dissonance" (Machlis, 1961). A more immediate precursor of electronic music was Edgar Vares...

Characters Created by Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Manifestation of Personal Identity

conflict of his characters. It is recommended that the person who is writing about this topic consider that much of Nathaniel Haw...

Critic's Role

put into words the experience for people to identify with. In many ways a critic is there to let the consumer know, who will pay ...

BPI Organizational History

In six pages United Kingdom's music industry is examined in this historical overview of the British Phonographic Industry. Six so...

The Tradition and Evolution of Indian Carnatic Music

India is broken into a multitude of cultural groups and social institutions. Essentially, however, there are two basic divisions:...

Infamous Reputations of Rap Music Artists

the "breakbeats" (Beau PG) and other natural vocal rhythms. It was not until within the past several years that they took on a ne...

Self Identity and Doug Coupland's Shampoo Planet

the environment and is torn by the pollution that has almost destroyed Lancaster. On top of it all, he doesnt understand his pare...

European Cinema and Culture

movie. One of the major concerns, one might derive from the ECCs findings, is that older films might be lost or not preserved or t...

Trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien and Identity

be a journey towards finding himself once again. Now, this is not to say that he will ever become what he once was, for this is im...

Identity in the Novel as a Philosophical Exploration

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

Theories on Globalization

their own position in relation to the larger process. Tomlinson doesnt see that as a negative aspect when seen in conjunction with...

Mariachi Music of Mexico

with the other, there still exists a definite sense of individuality that serves to distinguish each one from another. The very n...

Black Male Identity as Viewed by Dorothy West and Langston Hughes

taken their toil, making the man seem much older then his years (West 122). His oldest daughter practices incessantly on a rente...

Black Noise by Tricia Rose

or in any number of ways that reflect the current concerns of black male youth. Female rappers, on the other hand, tell stories fr...

'Recipe' by Janice Mirikitani

the eye takes looses its Asian fold and looks more Western. Then Mirikitani tells how to use eyeliner and false eyelashes to hide ...

Overview and Characteristics of MPD or DID

one of the primary causes of MPD, most especially when the trauma is related to child abuse. Findings over the last two decades i...