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The Case of Rap Music and Adorno's Mass Culture Theories

the offering of music or media, but more often this is merely window dressing and is really pseudo individualisation, meaning the ...

Leisure Music

when I first heard this tune" aspect to it. Or maybe the student has other reasons for why music is a...

'The Old Guard' versus 1920 Avant Garde Music

From this artistic liberation emerged the avant-garde movement, which delighted in breaking the rules through unrestrained experim...

Chicago Symphony and Classical Music

able to spend their lives in pursuit of such musical apexes, it is no wonder that this music is considered both an art form and se...

Resistance, Subculture, and Hip Hop

on ten characteristic features of hip hop in Australia, that this music genre represents an authentic subculture. Some of these po...

'Classical' and 'Pop' Gap That Was George Gershwin

a "serious" composer by the critics, they were extremely mindful that Gershwin did not orchestrate the first performance of Rhapso...

Cinematic Comedies and Sound's Role

theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...

Singer and Business Mogul Madonna

the success may be seen as a result of "street-smart business sense" (Harry Scolinos quoted in Grant, 1998). The initial beginning...

Effects of Music and Alcohol on Female Behavior in Nightclubs

is to observe the evolution of the night, to record the "behavior" of several women visitors to the night club scene, and to quest...

Dvorak and Brahms' Piano Quintets

any of his contemporaries, captured the "intimate communion that is the essence of chamber-music style" (Machlis, 1970, p. 128). T...

Sixteenth Century Keyboard Instruments

the strings.6 The tangents were inserted into the key levers at the lower end, and the top end was flattened for contact with the...

Renewal of the Popularity of Swing Music

In five pages this paper discusses the renewed Generation X popularity of Swing music. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography...

Bach's Concerto Number 2 in F Major Baroque Music

demonstrated in collection of pieces, "The Well-Tempered Clavier." With this discovery, the stage was set for Baroque music to flo...

Rap, Poetry, and Nikki Giovanni's 'Nikki Rosa'

In five pages this paper discusses rap music as a form of poetic expression as represented in Nikki Giovanni's 'Nikki Rosa.' Five...

Relationship Between Rock Music and Suicide

to Haq, the music videos for R. Kelly ("Down Low") and Keith Sweat ("Twisted") feature gloomy lyrics. Lovers are murdered brutall...

Hip Hop Group Public Enemy

who promoted disparate "strands and strains of nationalist sentiment" without a community-grounded institution, Public Enemy did s...

1920s' Harlem Renaissance

In six pages this paper examines the 1920s' Harlem Renaissance in a consideration of the African American music, art, and literatu...

Connection Between Music and Math

In seven pages this paper considers several programs in an analysis of the relationship that exists between higher scores in math ...

Civil War Art and Folk Music

In five pages this paper examines slave art and music during the years of the Civil War along with a consideration of family durin...

Musical History and Development of the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Puerto Rico

In forty five pages Latin American regional music is considered in this historical and developmental overview. Twenty sources are...

The Culture of Cuba

The Cuban exile culture in the United States is a vibrant one. This paper argues that Cubans as a group are no different than most...

Deaf Students and the Teaching of Music

In 5 pages this paper considers how to teach music to students with impaired hearing in an examination of various approaches. T...

Arguing Against the Censorship of Music

When something bad happens in society, one has to find someone or something to blame. One of the things that is...

The Career and the Music of Aerosmith

the Rolling Stones. As with many other rock bands drugs could have been their downfall. The seventies image of "Sex Drugs, an...

French Music and Culture Promotion

In 7 pages this paper examines how French cultural music can be promoted. There are 5 sources cited in the bibliography....

Beethoven vs. Bach

used two themes, which were contrasted by the composer within a homophonic texture. In other words, the fugue depended on theme ...

Contemporary Genres of Music

In six pages this paper discusses modern music in a contrast and comparison of different genres and also discusses how these genre...

Changes and the Differences Between Romantic, Modern, and Postmodern Artistic Approaches

In five pages this papers the differences between these approaches as they manifest themselves in architecture, literature, music,...

Life and Short Stories of Ring Lardner

who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...

Musical Differences Between the U.S. and India

of any kind. The notes and the instruments within any piece of music represent virtually everything, including inanimate objects,...