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    Esperanza Spalding’s jazz musical qualities are exceptionally compared to the qualities of classical music. Esperanza Spalding is widely known as an African American jazz bassist. She was born October 18‚ 1984. Spalding has excelled as a composer‚ concertmaster‚ bandleader‚ vocalist‚ bassist‚ double bassist‚ violinist‚ cellist‚

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    Influence of Music

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    American culture and social behavior of Americans. Audio media has had a major affect and influence on the attitudes of Americans and especially today’s youth and young adults. Music and radio has given American culture its values‚ the way that jazz‚ blues‚ and R&B created rock & roll‚ music created American culture. Music appeals to young adults‚ and youth as an escape to the hard times of real life. Drawn by the explicit lyrics and beats‚ the youth always searches out for music to dance

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    Coleman Hawkins

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    himself into the Jazz scene in 1921‚ at the very beginning of the Jazz age and the roaring 20’s. He played alongside the travelling blues and vaudeville star‚ Mamie Smith. After playing this background role for 2 years‚ he joined Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra. This would reinvent Coleman Hawkins as a lead soloist and a big star of American jazz‚ a title that he retained for more than 40 years (Yanow). Hawkins should be included in this course because he was a major part of the swing jazz and big band

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    Critical thinking 8.10

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    ragtime are used in jazz. 3. a. Cornetist who helped to create jazz music . His music had a loud piercing sound that be heard in the distance. 4. a. Bebop had faster rhythms and more complex harmonies. 5. a. A form of jazz that emphasized improvisation. In hot jazz multiple musicians did improvisation‚ In classic it was one. Critical Thinking Questions 1. a. Both use improvisation at some point. A difference is that classical music try not to improvise but jazz music use it all the

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    Emilie Durkheim’s Concern with a Shift from Mechanical to Organic Solidarity Compared with the Concerns of Karl Marx and Max Weber Kat Shuttleworth SOC 3320 – 001 Dr. Piancenti Sociologists Emilie Durkheim‚ Karl Marx and Max Weber all thrived in the modern classical age. Each of the three were essentially concerned with the base of social solidarity‚ along with the division of labor‚ and social order. Coming from different theoretical traditions‚ these three sociologists

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    After kinship‚ one of the most central ideas in anthropology is exchange. In societies without centralised states and systems of social control‚ exchange was often a key method for maintaining some sort of balance and political neutrality between communities. It was also a key method of ensuring the movement of desired commodities from one place to another and ensuring survival through the generations. In this lecture I look at two central anthropological thinkers in relation to aspects of exchange

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    prime time prohibition era in the city of New Orleans. Music is blasting‚ the alcohol is freely flowing‚ and there are crowds of dancing flappers and dapper gentlemen all over the French Quarter. For decades‚ New Orleans has been the epicenter for jazz music in America. It is essential to the culture‚ economy‚ and history of the city. Over the last few years‚ however‚ some of New Orleans’s city officials seem to think the beat has left the city‚ and its personality is suffering because of it. Others

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    of R&B music; it was born in the 1980s (“Rhythm and Blues”). For the following paragraphs‚ I am going to evaluate the characteristics and styles of Original R&B and Contemporary R&B music. Generally speaking‚ R&B music is the “‘urbane‚ rocking‚ jazz based music with a heavy‚ insistent beat’” (“Rhythm and Blues”). Both Original R&B and Contemporary R&B possess this characteristic; however‚ Original R&B music has a slower and softer beat since it is played as a smooth and soulful music. Original

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    themes include Jazz and blues‚ the Big Band era‚ country‚ rap‚ and various other genres of music. Each of these classes of music are drawn from and represent the particular culture and time of the background of the artist or the events that inspired it. Jazz first originated in the early 1900s. Jazz didn’t just miraculously emerge as the defining music of the time however. It was a product of various emotions and cultures that reflected the attitude of society that manifested into jazz. Jazz was an improvisation

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    eventually mixed with other types of music‚ due to the creative and experimental nature of composers and musicians. Specifically‚ samba and tango became mixed with jazz music‚ creating newer types of music. For the tango‚ Astor Piazzola first experimented with tango and jazz‚ creating what was called “new jazz”‚ while the mix of samba and jazz became known as bossa nova‚ a music genre featuring hits such as “The Girl from Ipanema.” Even today‚ both styles continue to mix with other music genres‚ such

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