Listening to these differently categorized styles of music‚ I realized that this music has more than what meets the eye. When listening to the Blues portion of the lesson‚ I was amazed by its organization and unique sounds that people usually seem to overlook. The most common instruments used in blues music include guitars (usually made of steel)‚ harmonicas‚ and trumpets. Occasionally‚ the music also incorporated drums and bass. With these instruments‚ musicians discovered various ways to combine
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Ara Cho Ethno 50A 803-672-412 October 14‚ 2011 Seeing Ragtime and Blues as Parents of Jazz Jazz is a music genre that has complex characteristics and history of development and thus many musicians and scholars face troubles in defining what jazz is. In general‚ jazz is believed to have born in New Orleans. Jazz developed for the pleasure of the social dancers. According to the “Understanding Jazz: What Is Jazz?” of John F. Kennedy center for the Performing Arts‚ Jazz was created mainly
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are used in the genres of country‚ blues‚ rock and hip hop music. Amongst these genres‚ there are also subgenres that display these differences as well. By observing a variety of songs‚ we are able to hear and distinguish between these genres. In country music‚ we can compare Jimmie Rodgers’ “Blue Yodel No 1 (T For Texas)” to Rednex’s “Cotton Eye Joe”. Jimmie Rodgers is one of the first country singers and is also known as “The Father of Country Music”. In his “Blue Yodel No 1 (T For Texas)” song‚
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documentary Where the Blues Began chronicles the land and the people of the Mississippi delta throughout the origins of “America’s most distinctive song style‚” the blues. Music was a central part of African American culture in the Mississippi Delta‚ playing important roles in joyous occasions‚ social gatherings‚ as well as serving practical
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Gathering Blue By Lois Lowry Thesis Statement: Knowing one’s identity is a way of fulfilling one’s life purpose Introduction: The uniqueness of one’s personality‚ character and abilities defines his identity. Knowing one’s distinctiveness is a grueling process. A person must have enough strength and perseverance to surpass obstacles. He must be able to accept whatever mistake he does and learn from it. Gradually‚ the person will be able to know his true identity once he reaches a certain point
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Blue Eyes Pheromone Review - Can Men Bank On This For Attraction? Find Out Here! From the inception of life‚ it has always been the story of man and woman. One can attest to this with the story of Adam and eve in the Garden of Eden. The move to attract the opposite sex by the male folks didn’t start today and seems not to end today rather; more researches are being done on daily if not hourly basis to improve on this. For a fact‚ Science is not left out in this‚ it has and still does all it can
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Jane-Clare Dauito Professor Thorstensen English Composition 2 11 December 2013 Within The Blues James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” is a story of how a distant and conflicting relationship between two brothers is saved by the powerful message within music. In “Sonny’s Blues” the music portrays a very powerful message. The story begins with Sonny being arrested for heroin use. Sonny’s older brother is a school teacher and did not want to believe that the news was true‚ “I didn’t want to believe that
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"Sonny’s Blues" was first published in a mainstream magazine in 1957 and was collected in Baldwin’s 1965 book "Going To Meet The Man". Sonny’s Blues" is a short story set in the ghetto of Harlem‚ NY. James Baldwin wrote "Sonny’s Blues" to articulate how the African-American culture enabled countless numbers of Blacks to escape‚ survive‚ endure and overcome various types of institutionalized racism and accompanying forms of social‚ economical and political oppression. African-American culture refers
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Feeling the Winter Blues Do you ever feel as winter approaches you find it more difficult to wake up in the morning or feel like you start lacking energy to perform everyday activities‚ and maybe finding it more difficult concentrating on completing daily tasks? Maybe you are not sure what’s causing you to feel down every year when the season changes‚ it gets colder‚ and the days get shorter. While many people just go year to year feeling a drop in energy level or depressed around the
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influenced the Blues. The goal of this paper is to briefly touch on a few of many ways that racism influenced the blues and blues performers. Individuals who made a living from playing the blues often faced racism and discrimination and this caused many of them to move to ‘less racist’ states. Discrimination is seen very blatantly by examining when the blues was first recorded and by examining which artists were recorded. There are countless other ways that racism influenced the blues and these ideas
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