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importance in contemporary culture and society, due to the rampant spread of obesity in the Western world, the prevalence of proce...
a mountain range, etc., that has served historically to keep two populations apart also serves to create differences in speech (R...
families differ there is the potential for a number of problems. Transracial adoptions might be considered necessitated by ...
time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...
musicians fellow players gave quiet murmurs of approval or even whooped their appreciation at especially brilliant improvisation (...
the floor tom-tom- for dynamic effect" (Alfaro). The group would break into a swing change and bounce back into a "hard Latin chop...
won the White House (War, prosperity and depression, 2005). The first two years of Hardings administration continued Wilsons econo...
In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...
Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...
years playing with the Miles Davis quintet and Davis was a tremendous influence for him (Murph 54). Herbie once observed that Dav...
This concert report offers a hypothetical example of how a student might describe a jazz concert that occurred at Yavapai College ...
This research paper offers a discussion of literature pertaining to the early history of jazz and the African influences that play...
This essay provides a hypothetical example of how a student might report on a jazz concert. The works summarized and analyzed incl...
This research paper describes the relationship between blues and jazz within the context of the history of these genres. The write...
p. 6). This community was comprised of "a number of musicians, singers, stage and taxi dancers, and cabaret and dance hall proprie...
they will not have to repeat those classes when they study at the Berklee later (Jazz popularizer feels upbeat, 2003). The systems...
Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...
comes in many variants: field hollers, levee camp hollers, prison work songs, street cries, and the like" (Gioia, 2005). It is rea...
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...
the 1920s turned to the American Dream we know today, which involves the assumption that if we work hard we can have wealth, and w...
the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...
where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...
As this suggests, their styles are quite different. Hawkins monopoly on the tenor sax ended in 1933 when he was playing with the...
phonograph - and when the record skipped, so did the sound synchronization. The results, predictably, were humorous - the movie-go...
Miles Davis, and many of the works which came from those periods are still considered classics today (Biography of Miles Davis, 20...
include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...
attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceeding...
result blurs the lines of what is real or not but the book makes it clear that for Mingus, at the moment of his telling it, it was...
In 6 pages this paper examines the influential jazz musician John Coltrane in a consideration of his Islam conversion and his ques...
In twelve pages this paper examines confrontation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and in Toni Morrison's Jazz. One othe...