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Music and the Sexualization of Women

The number and diversity of those involved in the debate surrounding the sexualization of women is overwhelming. Research abounds...

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...

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...

"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...

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 ...

An Examination of Baroque Musical Forms

Motet While Gregorian chants were intended entirely for liturgical and worship purposes, this was not the case for later Renaiss...

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...

Napster

change was to move the company away from the free format to one where there was a fixed fee subscription. This reduced the number ...

Venice, Italy

be seen both across the expanse of water and reflected in it (Lauritzen 12). San Marco is constructed so as to catch the light. Th...

Music as a Nursing Intervention

the effect of music on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain with a participant group that listened to "peaceful pan flute m...

Anthropology of Rock Music

The Science Daily reports that songs with violent lyrics increase aggression ("Violent Music Lyrics," 2003). A study conducted by ...

Similarities between Classical and Popular Music

works (Kaptainis, 2002). "A paint-by-numbers Mona Lisa is not to be confused with what is hanging in the Louvre" (Kaptainis, 2002,...

Handel/2 Operas

and of the English choral sound" (Thiers). By this point, Handel had realized that in order for his music to be successful in Engl...

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...

DOWNLOADING MUSIC -- FOR FREE

The group, in fact, leaked its song, "The Shepherds Dog" via a CD advance which was sent to a magazine for review (Eskenazi, 2007)...

The Financing of Opera in London in the 1730’s

leading up to it. Heideggers Italian opera company had failed in 1717 due to its inability to control costs and the failur...

Music of Guide D’Arezzo

1036 (Otten). It was after Guido arrived at Arrezo that he invented his new system of notation, which "brought such order and cl...

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony/An Analysis

motive over and over again in different forms (Grove 149). The lyrical second theme introduces a brief respite of relaxation, bu...

Beethoven, Life, Music and Romanticism

not attached to any one court or one prince. Rather, he received income in various ways, such as in giving music lessons to aristo...

Medieval Christianity: Music and Sculptures

liturgy provided innumerable texts, all set to music in the style we call Gregorian chant. The church served as an important patro...

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...

Lute in Renaissance Music

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

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...

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...