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Preparing Children to Take Music Lessons

in reaching deaf and blind children who would otherwise tune out. When used to help children learn basic skills, it is referred to...

Music Licensing and Creative Commons

to "use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses." The website describes attribution, nonc...

"Napster 2.0: The Cat Is Back"

in protest over threatened royalty rate increases (Munarriz, 2008). * Download sites operate "on razor-thin margins, with bandwidt...

Sonata Form, Haydn and Mozart

not always in the allegro tempo. For the purposes of this essay, "sonata form" will refer to the construction of the movement, whi...

John Cage, “Winter Music” (1957)

to perform Cages works based on the composers "idiosyncratic but functional notations," such as the notations that accompany "Wint...

Systems Thinking

a network within ecological communities that provided organisms with the means to life. In 1928, a Hungarian biologist, Ludwig vo...

Speech Recognition as a Tool for Human and Computer Interaction

were made in the 1950s, in fact. Bell Labs, for example, developed the capability within the telephone industry to recognize spok...

Music as a Reflection of Society

2008). The fact that controversial songs or literature emerge is something that in fact is not only a reflection of the problems s...

Women in Rock and Country Genres

direct attacks at those who scorn them (e.g. Taylor Swift). Instead, todays country music stars talk to magazines about diet, exer...

The Depression of the 1930s and Black American Artists

noted that in historic cultures that functional objects, often had a decorative component. The works of these artists f...

Black Church and Community

In a paper consisting of ten pages the ways in which the Black Church strengthens the black community are explored. Eight sources...

Rap Music's Culture and History

was said about Rock and Roll when it first became popular. However a single factor, whatever the opinion one holds regarding RAP i...

Black Literature and the Influence of the Black Panthers

In five pages this paper discusses how black literature was influenced by the late 20th century's Black Panther party. Five sourc...

African American Author, Historian, and Sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois

In five pages this paper discusses how being a black man influenced the perspectives of W.E.B. Du Bois with his text The Souls of ...

Brain, Learning, and Music's Effects

In twelve pages music and the effects it has on learning and brain development are investigated. Thirteen sources are cited in th...

W.E.B. Du Bois and Mark Twain Comparison

In five pages black and white cultural views are contrasted and compared in Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and Twain's The Adve...

Social Stereotyping and the Black Americans

12 pages and 9 sources. This paper considers the fact that stereotyping in the United States is common and that the stereotyping ...

Reviewing Charles T. Davis's Black Is the Color of the Cosmos Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture

In a five page review black literature during the 1960s and '70s is discussed and comparisons are made with slave narratives and t...

Myne Own Ground by T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes

The writer discusses the book Myne Own Ground by Breen and Innes, which describes the little known communities of free black who l...

Behavior of Consumers and Music's Impact

In eight pages this paper examines how retail environment and the choice of products are influenced by music and how this impacts ...

Black American Artists

13 pages and 12 sources. This paper considers the impacts of Black heritage on the artistic process of Black American artists. T...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

Arbitrary Capital Punishment

when the death penalty is suitable and when it is not. For example, in California, the death penalty must only be administered in ...

Thinking About Music, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music by Lewis Rowell

however, is preliminary, a basic orientation, if you will, before settling down to discussing the books main argument, which conce...

Race and the Plays of August Wilson

focus of the story is also not necessarily on making music, but rather on the segregated and isolated and oppressed position these...

Christian Music's Mid 1980s' Revival

In eight pages this paper considers the mid Eighties' revival of Christian music. Eleven sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Vision of Black Elk

In five pages John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks is discussed in terms of the ways in which Black Elk succeed in increasing public a...

Europe and the Black Death

This paper consists of six pages and examines the Black Plague or Black Death that had a catastrophic impact upon 14th century Eur...

The Black Community in the Works of Richard Wright

This 13 page paper explores the way Richard Wright describes the black community in his works Native Son and Black Boy. The writer...

American Music History and the Development of Rap Music

In ten pages this paper examines the important American musical developments of hip hop and rap music culture. Eight sources are ...