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The Djembe, An Overview

This research paper presents an extensive overview of the djembe, which is a drum that originated in West Africa. The paper offers...

Musical Systems: Scales, Maqamat, and Ragas

This research paper offers a brief overview of scales, maqamat, and ragas, which derive from Western Arabic and Indian music respe...

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...

Issues in Ethnomusicology, Agawu and McClary

(Agawu, 1992, p. 246). At this point, Agawu states that the purpose of his essay is to critique ethnomusicology writing that has f...

Falasha Liturgy and Indian Cassette Industry, Reflection on these Issues

were struck by the similarities between Falasha liturgical practices and Judaism and this perspective became so entrenched that in...

The Music Industry and E-Commerce

While record companies resisted the shift towards digital sharing of music at first, the wiser institutions have since acknowledge...

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 ...

"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...

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...

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...

Children’s Perceptions of Adults

is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...

The Recorded Music Industry In The UK

There is an increased use of MP3 players, and new mobile phone models are entering the market which are capable of downloading mus...

Music Sharing is Not Unethical

management, as well as the creation and distribution of their CDs. Now, with the Internet, widespread ownership of CD burners and ...

A Critique on the October, 2008 Ringtone Decision

to royalties for the songs that are used as ringtones. In early October of 2008, the Copyright Royalty Board decided to freeze the...

MUSIC AND ITS IMPACT ON AMERICAN CULTURE

that provides ethnic minorities (and even poor whites) an opportunity to speak their minds and their feelings (Reeves, 2007). Over...

Lute in Renaissance Music

woodworkers who practiced their craft in northern Italian cities crafted lutes that generally had "six courses and pear shaped bod...

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...

Lerner and Lowe's Brigadoon

everything of importance in this musical is conveys via song, music or motion, as these are the vehicles that seem at home on the ...

Music History, Classical Era to the 20th Century

as an example of perfection ("Romantic"). The sociopolitical upheavals of the late eighteenth century created "new social order an...

Music Industry Decision Making

leads both the US and Europe, and by a wide margin (Cieslak, 2007). As digital forms continue to evolve, if CD sales contin...

Art History Questions

about Egyptian life. Discuss how an artist may express his or her point of view by explaining the content, concept and style of a...

Music Element Analysis of Aaron Copland’s Ballet Billy the Kid

who wrote this symphony can compose at the age of twenty-three a work like this one... it seems evident that in five years more he...

Music in the Films of the Coen Brothers

examined, one could perhaps argue that this is the one film wherein music was almost non-existent. Ethan Coen, in relationship to ...

Lanza/Elevator Music

or artistic merit that might be associated with his music genre. He argues that decades of rock music that sound more like car cra...

The Humanities

is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...

iPod And iTunes; the Potential Impact of Microsoft's Zune

Microsoft with the launch of Zune, or has Apple learned its lessons and will it be able to retain the dominant position. With th...

Brazilian Samba Music

de enredo" to the more "relaxed guitar and rhythm variant" of song samba (Clifford). Sambas earliest beginnings can be traced to t...

Mozart Effect/Beneficial or a Gimmick?

speech and language abilities" (Calkins and Kelley, 2007, p. 151). This is particularly interest in light of the fact that the ori...

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Blues of the African-American Experience

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...