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The History Of American Gospel Music

nothing but these songs, these oral traditions that communicated not only their religious beliefs but their hopes and dreams as we...

Twentieth Century Jazz Musician Cy Coleman

The life and music of this legendary jazz artist are considered in five pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Risk Management and Competition Factors

In fourteen pages this business research paper assesses two recent risk factors posed by the increased intensive competition and a...

First World War and Its Cultural Influence

In ten pages this research paper discusses the profound influence the First World War had in terms of the music, literary, and art...

Early Culture of West Africa

This paper compares the Native American culture with the culture of West Africa in an overview of sculpture, dance, music, poetry,...

The Common Thread of Ancient and Modern African Music

In comparison, Ethiopias krar music is played on a stringed instrument and carries overtones that are almost (but not quite) remin...

Music of Japan

the musical activities performed in Japan (Futoransky 38). A study of the history of Japanese music reveals that Japan has always ...

San Marco, Venice's Artistic and Musical Humanism During the Renaissance

of Venice and the notion of Renaissance humanism. The focus of this research study, then, is to consider the notion of humanism i...

The Bather

The Bather by Cezanne is discussed in the context of this essay that examines issues such as musical counterbalance, amongst other...

Martial Art of Capoeira

In a paper consisting of twenty three pages the culturally complex Capoeira martial art is examined in terms of its Afro-Brazilian...

Guqin Music and the Chinese Zither Instrument

a large number of other ethnic groups with distinct cultures. The westward expansion of the Chinese empire during the Tang dynast...

Academic Curriculum and the Importance of Music Education

how to be creative. While some critics of public school want the "back to basic" criteria to extend into elementary school -- el...

Latino Music Genre Known as Salsa

year later Alegre Records released Charlie Palmieris charanga LP "Salsa Na Ma." In 1964, the Cal Tjader Quintet plus 5 got the i...

Contemporary Classroom Invention of Music and Montessori

childhood education. She would not only enact an educational methodology which would directly aid the societally disadvantaged ch...

Music Philosophy

well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...

East and West Coast Rap Wars and the Deaths of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.

for example (Kinnon, 1997). However, the genre changed around 1988 with the emergence of a sub-genre termed gangsta rap (1997). A ...

1960s' Culture

come around, Americans were frantically attempting to launch a man into space, more to keep up with the Soviets (who had already l...

Black Spiritual's Significance

time on their own to form cultural groups (1988). Piersen contends that New Englands black population was the most assimilated out...

Black and Outsider Culture

sexual orientation, and consequently these different facets may take on different degrees of priority at different times in their ...

Entertainment Industry and Technology

In six pages this paper examines the online gambling, film, and music entertainment industries in a consideration of technological...

Overview of Music Therapy

and moving to, creating and playing music to decrease pain and stress and improve heart rate, blood pressure, muscle tension, resp...

Ambient Music of Brian Eno

recorded "Music for Airports" in 1978 (Brian Eno). While this story is certainly appealing, the student researching this topic sho...

Pain Management and Music Therapy

a role, as well as the elements of the music itself. Studies show that slow rhythms tend to be calming, while faster tempos tend t...

Raising Children in America Today

200,000 violent acts on television alone" (Chatfield, 2002; p. 735). The study indicated that "Between the ages of two and 18, an ...

Opening Sequence Analysis of the 1979 Film Apocalypse Now

foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...

Analyzing Milos Forman's Film Amadeus

film, which is told via flashbacks by Salieri, who is in an asylum after attempting suicide, and concentrates on the final ten yea...

Punk Rock's Political Influence

the seventies. It had to have gained some attention for itself and the issues that were being addressed simply because it was new,...

An Aesthetician's Perspective on Art

did my spirit seal; / I had no human fears: / She seemed a thing that could not feel / The touch of earthly years."1 Romance expr...

Grade Point Averages and Music Education

music as it relates to the basic cognitive and emotional systems that are the foundation of thought, feeling, and behavior" (2000,...

Music Considered in 4 Brief Essays

iridescent beauty. Bergs "Wozzeck" Alban Bergs opera "Wozzeck" is considered by many to be his masterpiece. Each scene of Act II...