in 1960s-70s to challenge stereotypes of Latino culture and tradition. This literature gives Chicana feminists a writing opportunity to use their varied experiences. Moreover‚ Chicana feminist writers have won many successful experiences against Chicano and Latino communities. One of the most prominent feminist contributors is Sandra Cisneros‚
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Professor Yankee 11/19/12 Music Therapy Why do people use this type of therapy exactly? Well music has been used as medicine for thousands of years and there’s a growing field of health care known as music therapy‚ which uses music to heal. Those who practice music therapy find benefits in using it to help cancer patients‚ children with ADD‚ and others‚ and even hospitals are beginning to use music therapy to help with pain management‚ to help ward off depression‚ to promote movement‚ to
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Music can be heard from headphones‚ television commercials‚ blaring car speakers; it echoes throughout department stores‚ elevators‚ hospitals‚ and even in classrooms. Obviously we live in a very musically active culture where most every activity that we do is accompanied by some essence of music. Although the topic of “music” can be rather broad‚ this paper will focus on the way an individual should interact with music and will feature the benefits music can have overall. These benefits will validate
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post-minimalist composers of our time (Potter). His works have been commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic‚ Tokyo Symphony‚Yo-Yo Ma‚ and the Elysian Quartet and he held a Resident Composer position with the London Philharmonic (Fitkin‚ Biography). His music frequently elicits a “moto perpetuo” combined with gliding‚ lyrical lines and driving harmonic progressions keeping listeners attentive. Hard Fairy is no exception. The unabating electronic accompaniment (originally two pianos) propels the singing
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Borders‚ communities‚ and identities were the focal points of the last unit in Historical Theories and Methods. These three ideas can sometimes fuse with each other creating a complex discussion of what they mean. One topic that interests me that relates with these ideas is a study of the origins of the following words‚ Hispanic‚ Latina/o‚ and Chicana/o. These words mean a lot to a complex community that exists along the United States and Mexican border. These words usually can lead to an identity
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Reading this passage‚ I could feel the frustration and the longing for people to understand the La Chicanas behind Martinez’s writing. How throughout history‚ the Chicanas have been forced to endure so many different types of oppressions by many different types of people. What Martinez calls triple oppression‚ oppression by “the forces of racism‚ imperialism‚ and sexism‚” and that every woman who is not white‚ is able to feel this type of oppression. And she’s right- as a white woman I will never
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Everyone knows what music is and that different instruments make many sounds‚ but do people know how preceding generations formed and influenced their descendants’ music? Not a lot of people know the changes that music went through during certain time periods. The Renaissance was a rebirth of creativity and a change in many areas. There were political‚ economic‚ and religious events in the periods around 1400-1600 that led to many changes. During the Renaissance‚ music was used for religious reasons
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MUS 1014-UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY AND POPULAR MUSIC MUSICS FINAL ESSAY: MUSIC IDOLISM & ITS EFFECTS ON THE WORLD TODAY By Edwin Choy Music Idolism is affecting the world today as many people are following the trend set by artists and it changes the younger generation’s opinion on music and how it should be played. What is Music Idolism? As simple as the words say‚ Music Idolism means putting a personal favorite artist’s work as a focal point in everything. It is also a rejection
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2. MUSIC-LINKED TRANSLATION The production of music-linked translation refers to translating a music-linked verbal text of source language into a music-linked verbal text in a target language‚ keeping the music unaffected. In this regard producing music-linked translation is more sophisticated than composing new music‚ since the former has to address itself both to the music and to the source text (Golomb 2005‚ 126- 127). In regard to the history of German music-linked translation‚ one of the first
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Pop music in the 21st Century Hello! Everyone‚ It’s the weekly podcast. I’m Terry Lam. Today I’m going to talk about pop music in the 21st Century. Basically‚ pop music is short for popular music and nowadays‚ there are many different countries in the world are doing pop music like Britain‚ America‚ Korea‚ Japan‚ Africa and China‚ and among all of these countries‚ recently the most famous pop music country is Korea and Japan which is called K-pop and J-pop and they are very popular through the
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