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Ragtime Music as a Societal Phenomenon

"Youve Been a Good Old Wagon but Youve Done Broke Down" (Ketch, 1993, p. 182). Sensing a popular music form, the New York song pu...

Scott Joplin & George Gershwin

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

Music as a Reflection of Societal Issues

The writer discusses the role of music in society by concentrating on the new band Blues Traveler, which some think will be the ne...

The Elderly and the Natural Life Span

This paper reviews how individual outlook combines with societal norms to determine whether aging will be a positive or negative p...

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...

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...

Internet Technology and Society

As the request in this paper was to analyze implicit system of thought that inform the technology, we can probably use the hypothe...

Religion and Secularization

theory of the secular, in other words, the idea that religion would fade in significance as the industrial society grew in importa...

Necessity of Music Education

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

Syncretic Music

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

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...

Birth Defects and Vitamin A Overuse

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

Computer Music and Its Impact Upon Society

in the past (Forest 35). For example, using Macintosh computers and a software program called "Kids Notes," four-year-olds can c...

The Individual and Societal Value of the Arts and Music

The arts are an incredibly important component of American society and culture. Indeed, art...

Internet Friendships

online gaming where there is a high level of communication between players, for example; World of Warcraft (WoW) has been a signif...

Can The Effects Of Lifestyle Stresses And Its Link To GI Cancer Be Reversed?

and understanding are what dictate perception, which represents "a choice, where we may intend our manner of interaction with the ...

Is Substance Dependence A Physiological Or Psychological Phenomenon?

as a healthcare problem (Gorski, 1996). If it is a physiological condition that is highly likely that this will be classified as a...

Reviewing Global Warming Impacts

scientific facts regarding the changes which we are observing in our world. A recent front page article in the New York...

Nursing and the Caring Phenomena

on nurses increase (Cullen, 2003). Nevertheless, nurse educators and scholars stress that it is through recognition of caring as a...

An Analysis of a Chamber Music Concert

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

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...

John Cage/His Impact on Music

"rubber, felt, or wood, as well as screws, nuts and bolts" (Machlis 632). The result of this preparation is that the piano produ...

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). ...

Music and Society

addition, it is noted that no matter what type of music there has been through history, and no matter the culture, the main functi...

Music Therapy as a Pediatric Sedative

post-discharge effects of chlorate hydrate, these parents/guardian reported unsteadiness, hyperactivity, poor appetite, vomiting a...

Digital Music - Blog Entries

rapid from this stage in terms of take up of the technolgy in the industry. The Industry Standards Organization (ISO) adopted the ...

Music Piracy

artists work is pointless and they have made no money off of the pirated copies of their work. Anyone who spends time creating a p...

Funk Music

was despair. It was a time of high energy and it has become part of the nations mythology. It was unsettled and crazy, and funk mu...

Music As Sedation for Children

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...