The Middle Ages or “The Dark Ages”‚ has quite a negative connotation‚ but is not quite as dark as you would think. The Dark Ages are referred to as the period of time during the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Specifically‚ The 16th century was a very pivotal time in history that began in the year of 1501 AD and had changed the world from that point on. Many important events from within the century have shaped our world to be the way it is. One being in 1531 when the Church of England broke free
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stoker‚ and raised in the engine rooms. After Danny’s death in an accident‚ 1900 remained on the ship and increasingly lured by the sound of the piano in the first-class ballroom. Eventually‚ he became a gifted pianist and a great jazz improvisationist. He plays unbelievable jazz improvisationally just by looking at a person’s expression‚ action‚ dress and through their mood. His talent earned him such accolades that he was challenged by‚ yet for all the richness and variety of his musical expression‚
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Bebop: A Controversial Transition to Modern Jazz Nathan Marketich Music 0711 Professor Leon Dorsey Recitation TA: Alton Merrell 1:00 December 10‚ 2010 The decade of the 1940’s was an important era in the history of jazz. The 1940’s was a transition from traditional jazz into modern jazz. Leading this transition was the introduction of the Bebop period in Jazz. Bebop created controversy in the jazz world for being a contradiction to traditional jazz and was widely disliked by many audiences
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a period of extravagance was coming to them. A burst of mechanical progressions had detonated‚ for example‚ the innovations of radios and automobiles. Americans were anxious to buy these items to live to their fullest. This era was known as "The Roaring Twenties." Many individuals amid this time had begun to utilize credit‚ or borrow money from banks‚ to pay for these purchases. Credit was another path for Americans to purchase things for themselves‚ as they normally paid with money for whatever
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the northern factories. From 1940-1950 220‚000 southern African-Americans fled from the southern plantations to Chicago with nearly half coming from the Mississippi Delta region. Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) Singing in church "I was a good Baptist and got all my moaning and trembling going on for me right out of church." First guitar at 13 Sold last family horse for $15... Gave grandmother half and order a Stella guitar from Sears and Roebuck for $2.50 1943 moved to Chicago to
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Twenty Feet to Stardom The film “Twenty Feet to Stardom” discussed about women with great voices working as backup singers. Backup singers may not seem as important to many people but in reality this women were very important to the actual songs. These artists like Darlene Love‚ Merry Clayton‚ Claudia Lennear and share their story of how sacrificing and rewarding their careers were. Even though they were shadows of many legends‚ they still carry a pride and satisfaction with what they did
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Charles Mingus‚ an icon in the Jazz world “only second to Duke Ellington (CHARLES MINGUS BIO). Mingus played a very important role in the development of jazz music‚ he left his mark on the world that got him a lot of recognition. Along with a plethora of grants that were donated to him and the different organizations that were centered on him. He was also honored in New York City by having a “Charles Mingus Day” dedicated to him and many other dedications and assortments of honoring’s (CHARLES MINGUS
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Is old age really golden age? What are its pros and cons? Human life is a long and complex process which passes through many stages. Each stage contains new circumstances and requirements to which one has to adapt. The great English poet W. Shakespeare described and divided the human life span into a number of stages: an infant‚ a schoolboy‚ a lover with agonies of adolescence‚ a soldier as a youngish‚ a justice as an adult‚ a pantaloon who is over the hill‚ and the second childhood with "sans teeth
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difficult to define Jazz music‚ as there are many different styles and movements. A brief definition of Jazz would be: American music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms‚ polyphonic ensemble playing‚ improvisatory‚ virtuosic solos‚ melodic freedom‚ and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality. 1 But this does not tell everything about Jazz. Jazz developed from Ragtime around 1900 and about 20 different styles
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Authentic jazz dance pertains to the early development of the jazz style in the 1920’s. During this time period‚ jazz dance wa influenced by African American cultures that were introduced in different dance movements. Some dances introduced to the population during this time includes the Lindy Hop and the Charleston. These movements included swing dance and flapper movements that were expressed in ballrooms and social settings. These elements were the original forms of jazz dance that influenced
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