Song of My Mother Towards the back of a closet‚ in the corner where the dust tends to linger and the light shies away‚ hangs a brown suede leather jacket right next to a pair of old jeans. A jacket that--in its newer days‚ when the zipper still worked and both pockets were hole-less--a young woman wore on occasion. But‚ both the jeans and jacket are a bit faded now‚ the threads have turned awry‚ and the zippers have lost their shine. The woman has now passed it down to her daughter‚ but her
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in America and England in the early 1960s both used blues as a musical template for exploring personal identity. In which ways did the American blues revival differ from the England blues revival? As the new age of rock music swept through the 1960’s‚ a new revival of blues was the cornerstone to both American and English bands. Both sides of the spectrum pursued the same goal but they seemed to have drastic differences. During the American Blues Revival it was set upon the principle to only be played
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Black American Music History First of all‚ there is many different types of African American music but im going to talk about three in particular which are slave spirituals‚ blues‚ and the more common rap/hip-hop. First slave spirituals is a type of religious song originating among black slaves in the American south. It was famous for the reason that the lyrics of negro spirituals were tightly linked with the lives of their authors.... slaves! While work songs only dealt with their daily
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the positive side‚ Levi’s distribution cost will be basically eliminated since the jeans are shipped directly to the customer. Also‚ since the jeans will be produced on a just in time basis‚ Levi’s will not have to hold any finished inventory. The denim industry is a rapidly expanding one‚ growing at 10% last year. Since Levi’s has stuck to producing American made jeans‚ they are not able to compete with the low cost high volume segment. Levi’s net income actually dropped during this period of expansion
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Clothing1947 501xx Bing Crosby Customized‚ These customized 1947 501® jeans were produced to accompany the Bing Crosby Tuxedo Jacket‚ designed for Crosby after he was denied entrance into a Canadian hotel because he and his friend were dressed completely in denim. The characteristics of the jeans are similar to the original 1947 501xx® except for the outer seams that have been busted out and re-hemmed to resemble the grosgrain ribbon on a pair of tuxedo pants The 1947-501® jean is regarded as the definitive
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Journal #1 Chao Wu 06/15/2012 The two stories that interest me the most are Sonny’s Blues and A Good Man is Hard to Find. Between Sonny and the Misfit‚ they both had commons and differences from each other. Since they had different inner emotional distress‚ this led to a huge difference in their lives. Sonny and the Misfit both had a miserable childhood. Sonny’s father was an alcoholic-addicted man‚ and they often fought each other. Sonny’s mother died when Sonny was young. Sonny started to
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Rebecca Almonte J.K. Offerman FMM 114 Museum Trip Visit 1920s The 1920s represented a time of tremendous social change‚ which was reflected in fashion as well. For women‚ short bobs because fashionable as did shorter skirts such as pinafores that would never have been allowed in previous decades. There was a certain androgynous look to women’s fashion that borrowed from men’s clothing liberally. Forward thinking designers like Coco Chanel and Jean Patou made sportswear fashionable
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his “cool” friend Adam just to look cool. He listens to and admires Adam’s heroic stories of fighting with people and getting in trouble with the police. Adam was like a role model to him: a negative one. Just to be able to be with him‚ he gets a denim jacket and even though he despised it‚ he started smoking. However‚ for Seth‚ he could never be as cool as Adam. While they were on the bridge‚ Adam started to show off his skills: he made drivers scared of him by acting like he threw something and
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People always say that in a near death experience‚ your life always flashes before your eyes. I waited for that moment to happen‚ but all I saw was the series of decisions that led me to the situation I was in. I remember this morning clearly‚ the day I had been waiting for‚ When I received my SAT scores. I had never been a super bad student‚ just never really a good one‚ grades have never been important to me‚ it was always about friends. The spots for athlete and genius in my seemingly perfect
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jazz and blues are tangled along. It is typically difficult to differentiate one from the opposite. Each have their traditions that emerged from the south of America and specially the African-American populations of that region. The musical styles of each are the results of the collision of traditionally African rhythms and musical techniques with European classical and popular music genre. Each are adored American styles of music. Miles Davis “So What” and Robert Johnson’s “Cross Roads Blues” have
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