In Pictures and Power‚ an essay about the forms of power of the images‚ W.J.T Mitchell described the image “not merely as instruments of power‚ but as internally divided force-field‚ scenes of struggle indicated by the hybrid term of the “imagetext.””(Mitchell 323) In another word‚ to Mitchell the image‚ itself a vessel for the creator’s voice (Mitchell 140)‚ is almost a battlefield‚ one which witnesses a three-way clash between the voices of the image’s creator‚ the observer and the image’s owner
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Blues is normally played with only the dominant chords that are not complex like the chords played on Jazz. 3. There are only a few of scales for Blues music. Blues scale is the scale normally used in Blues music. More over‚ pentatonic scale‚ bebop scale‚ and dorian mode are also used in Blues. B. Jazz is so hard to learn that even some of musicians are unable to play it. 1. It is necessary for one who wants to learn Jazz to understand Blues first because Blues is the basic of Jazz
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The 1940’s was a big turning point for America‚ not only because of the war‚ but also changes in the interaction of the people and music of the time. The war embedded a sense of patriotism for the people and also helped industry start to move to its state in our economy it is today. Jazz changed the way the American people interacted and also how they took their minds off the stress of day to day life. The Forties was also a transformative time for jazz in how they were arranged to the addition of
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The term music reflects the mood of an age often used by many people who are attempting to decipher what exactly is occurring in the world today. In the past‚ we had all kinds of music created such as jazz‚ bebop‚ Rap‚ and R&B that has paved the way for the musical creations we enjoy today. Often we look into the past at huge artists such as Aretha Franklin‚ Shaka Khan‚ Prince‚ and James Brown who all broke barriers and made fantastic music in their eras‚ and wonder what went wrong. Although the
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The Influence of 1920 Blues and Jazz on Modern Music Mark Carter The Influence of 1920 Blues and Jazz on Modern Music This paper is will try to show how the music that started with singing of old songs by the slaves to influences the music that the world listens to today. Shaping the music of Rock and Roll‚ Country and Western‚ and Easy Listening that influences every aspect of society’s everyday life are Blues and Jazz. In an interview many years ago on television‚ heard by this
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fight known‚ as the The Spitball Story‚ as Calloway found confrontation with Gillespie’s childlike behavior and approach to soloing. However‚ Dizzy Gillespie‚ with work with Charlie Parker‚ gave great contribution to the development of the styles of Bebop‚ Swing‚ Latin‚ and Afro-Cuban‚ and influence to many other musicians‚ especially trumpeters of Miles Davis‚ Jon Faddis‚ Fats Navarro‚ Clifford Brown‚ and Arturo Sandoval‚ as well as many
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The Hardships and Upcoming of Django Reinhardt Django Reinhardt once said “Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music‚ but which popular music doesn’t have.” Reinhardt had worked very‚ very hard to get to the peak of his career. His life was like a story in the genre of “Rags to Riches” because he wasn’t born with the best of beginnings‚ but he still accomplished the impossible and became the first important European
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names of the songs; cause my self was already busy enjoying the concert too. Maynard Ferguson‚ jazz legend‚ internationally renowned big band leader and one of the world’s greatest trumpet players with his Big Bop Nouveau Band. He draws upon bebop‚ straight-ahead jazz‚ funk‚ swing‚ classical and contemporary music to create a fresh sound within the
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Teenage life in the 1950s Before the 1950s human between childhood and adulthood were called kids‚ boys and girls. But not until the 1950s there needed to be a word that described these young people‚ the word “teenager’ was developed. The rise of television offered a uniform vision of life and success. What was seen on TV became the norm‚ especially for young people. New music genres also emerged in the 1950s. All of these factors helped change the outlook of young people. One of the most influential
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<b>Abstract</b> <br>This essay is a discussion of how the way jazz trumpeter Miles Davis changes his way of improvising‚ looking at two pieces from different times. The solos in the pieces were transcribed by myself and then analysed in detail. From these analyses‚ several conclusions on the style of improvising were drawn‚ and then the conclusions from the two pieces were compared. The piece New Rhumba’‚ showed how Davis was using his technical ability to create an impressive solo‚ but was also
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