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    The music of the early 20th century was heavily jazz and blues. The bases of jazz music were influenced by the field hollers‚ hymns‚ and work songs from African Americans in the 1800s. Until 1901‚ improvisation‚ the style of Dixieland‚ created the genre of jazz‚ where every performer is playing different rhythms and tunes at the same time. Cornet player‚ Louis Armstrong‚ changed the Dixieland style and gave the idea for players to perform separate solos at different times. In the 1930s‚ Swing was

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    |Observations of the Reaction| A.|NaHCO3 + HCl||Bubbling in center of droplets. Homogeneous| B.|HCl + BTB||Turns yellow immediately after contact. Homogeneous| C.|NH3 + BTB||Turned dark blue. Homogeneous| D.|HCl + blue dye||Solution turns green immediately after contact. Homogeneous| E.|Blue dye + NaOCl||Stays blue. Homogeneous| | with the 1 drop of HCl||Mixes and turns a bluish green color. Homogeneous| F.|NaOCl + KI||Slightly yellowish tint to the solution. Homogeneous| | with 1 drop of starch||Turned

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    Bessie by Chris Albertson Rowdy‚ powerful‚ and innovative songstress‚ Bessie Smith dominated the 1920s blues circuit in America. Her soulful drown out voice reinvented the lyrics of many and captivated her audiences. She toured throughout the south and northeast regions building fan base of all races‚ and breaking strides in the newly developing black record business. Like most artist‚ people only knew the musical genius of Bessie Smith. The background‚ personality‚ and struggle of the woman

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    Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements and Effect on Rock and Roll The blues are undeniably the roots of early rock and roll. Rock today has mutated so much that the basic blues patterns have been all but lost. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the birth of‚ and evolution of rock and roll by focusing on three of the arguably greatest rock musicians of the sixties and seventies. The origin of the blues can be traced to the emancipation of the slaves in the rural black areas of the

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    with was so poor that him and his little brother‚ Leon‚ were placed in a foster home for a brief time. (West‚ The African‚ 254) In school‚ Johnny painted pictures of Martian sunsets and summer afternoons on Venus. As he grew older he devoured the blues and played air guitar on a broomstick. Johnny got his very first guitar from his father. A social worker of Johnny’s dad told Al that this sort of fantasy was destructive. Johnny not knowing how to read or write music‚ he taught himself how to play

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    Coloration/ Appearance of Positive Control | Coloration/ Appearance of Negative Control | Sol. 1 Result (+ or -) | Comments | Reducing Sugars (tube 1) | Opaque Orange | Stays Blue | + | Strong in sugar content | Starch (tube 2) | Bluish Black | Orange-Yellow | - | None | Proteins(tube 3) | Purple | Light Blue | + | None | Results: Conclusion: I tested the solution with Benedict’s‚ Iodine‚ and Biuret’s to determine what it contains. Formula tested positive for sugar and protein

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    Thomas Nickerson Glen Pearson Music 015B 29 September 2012 57th Street Gallery – Jam Session What is Jazz Music? “An academic definition of jazz would be: A genre of American music that originated in New Orleans circa 1900 characterized by strong‚ prominent meter‚ improvisation‚ distinctive tone colors & performance techniques‚ and dotted or syncopated rhythmic patterns.” To me jazz is so much more. I personally feel jazz is an expression of the an artist’s deep emotional connection to the

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    glare off of the water from the bright hot sun. We quickly found our spot next to a white worn out lawn chair. Looking out at the pool the water looked almost as blue as the sky that day scattered with many unnoticeable heads inside of it. The pool was divided into sections at the front of the pool on each side there were white ropes with blue floats attached to them separating the two feet water from the three feet. At the middle of the pool on the right side there was a short bluish green slide for

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    Rock and Roll- A Great Movement in Music The type of music that later became known as "rock and roll" evolved in the mid 1950’s. It was a combination of jazz‚ rhythm and blues‚ country‚ and gospel sounds. One of the reasons rock and roll was said to have such a great impact on society at the time was mainly due to the fact that it broke the "race barriers" of the time. During the 1950’s‚ the greater part of the United States‚ in particular the South‚ was segregated‚ with blacks on one side and whites

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    smeared them away with her cozy‚ navy blue sweatshirt that she bundles up in a human ball. “Sorry sweety‚ come and eat I think that you’ll like it.” Rachel’s dad said picking her up from the ground and holding her hand to the table. “Oolala this looks so scrumptious.”

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