female blues singer known as “The Empress of the Blues”. She started her career by singing in tent shows in 1912‚ alongside another blues specialist Ma Rainey. Bessie influenced other singers including Aretha Franklin‚ Nina Simone‚ Frank Sinatra‚ Billie Holiday‚ Dinah Washington and Janis Joplin. Bessie Smith was married to Jack Gee on June 7‚ 1923. She made her first record with Columbia records “Downhearted Blues” in 1923. It was a hit selling 780‚000 copies. It was the best selling blues record
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Jazz and blues are musical genres or styles that can also be regarded as two distinct American musical traditions. They are interrelated most likely because of the fact that they originated from the American South. The confusion in discerning the two genres is probably because of the numerous music crossovers that artists do these days. Hailing from New Orleans‚ jazz music was first known as “jass” then later dropped the two “ss” into “zz” which means “cool.” During the later part of the 19th century
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black paper it was less of a bright yellow. | C.|NH3 + BTB|A4|The mixture is a lighter royal blue under white paper and a darker royal blue under black paper. The mustard yellow would be an acidic indicator and the royal blue a basic indicator. | D.|HCl + blue dye|A5|The mixture also turned green instantly. Under white paper it is a nice emerald color and slightly darker under black paper. | E.|Blue dye + NaOCl|A6|The mixture is fairly similar to NH3+BTB. It’s a little lighter under white paper
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THE GREAT GATSBY In his most fully realized artistic achievement‚ Fitzgerald creates a rich pattern of evocative language and some equally provocative symbols to carry the weight and meaning of his ideas. In this presentation I will be showing how three of these symbols are used to represent what Fitzgerald views as the most pressing problem of his society; the dangerous reality of pursuing dreams obsessively. I will be looking primarily at the valley of ashes‚ T K Eckleburg and the green light
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Sunny Side‚” The Carter Family (1927) - hillbilly o guitar style‚ first chorus form (has verse & chorus)‚ optimistic lyrics‚ low pitch • “Crossroad Blues‚” Robert Johnson (1937) – race music/classical blues • “Mannish Boy‚” Muddy Waters (1955) – blues more into R&B o hyper-masculinism‚ stylistic features → call-and-response‚ away from older blues format‚ backing instruments (harmonica‚ drum set‚ guitar‚ shouts)‚ single line guitar • “Mama‚ He Treats Your Daughter Mean‚” Ruth Brown (1953) – R&B
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Evolution of Music Music and literature have always helped shape civilization. People have always written and sang about the times. Socio-political conditions have always had strong effects on people. This is especially so with African Americans. African Americans have been through some rough times‚ dating back to when they were torn from their homeland of Africa to become slaves‚ all the way up until the present where African Americans are still somewhat oppressed in some areas. However‚ many
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William Christopher Handy (W.C. Handy) was born on November 16‚ 1873‚ in a log cabin built by his grandfather. The town was called Florence‚ Alabama.He was considered the “Father of the Blues.” His parents were Elizabeth Brewer and Charles Barnard Handy. His father was a pastor and much of Handy’s musical style was influenced by the songs he sang and played in church. His father‚ however‚ believed that musical instruments were tools of the devil (Wikipedia). This inspired Handy even more to play
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By most accounts‚ Bessie Smith was a rough‚ crude‚ violent woman. She was also one of the greatest Blues singers of the 1920s. The road that took her to the title “Empress of the Blues” was not an easy one. It was certainly not one of the romantic "rags to riches" tales that Horatio Alger made popular during her time. For a young black woman from the South the journey was anything but easy‚ and it would require a special kind of person‚ and Bessie Smith was definitely that. She was a woman who fought
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BESSIE SMITH 1894 – 1937 Bessie Smith‚ known as “Empress of the Blues”‚ was born on April 15 1894 in Chattanooga‚ Tennessee. She was one of seven children to a part-time Baptist preacher and his wife. However‚ by the time Bessie was nine years old both of her parents were dead. Bessie and her brother Andrew were already singing on the streets of Chattanooga for spare change. Bessie’s older brother Clarence had joined a travelling vaudeville1 show as a comedian and dancer and in 1912 he
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light blue and dark blue colours with some yellow hints on the tips of the tentacles. The centre of the octopus is darker and as you reach to the end of the tentacles it gets lighter. The colours blend together nicely and they flow together well. The colours remind me of the ocean and the creatures that live inside of it. The tentacles are long and sharp at the ends. It is scaly and also looks like blue coral in the ocean. It reminds me of how the ocean and how the colours are dark blue in some
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