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    MUSIC GENRES

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    LESSON 7: PUNK‚ DISCO‚ GLAM ROCK‚ REGGAE‚ CUMBIA AND HARD ROCK Reggae A Jamaican music genre which originated from the ska and rocksteady. The word reggae means rags‚ ragged. This also mean ragged dance music. The music style of reggae has an offbeat rhythm‚ syncopated‚ and staccato chords. Reggae music use also stringed instruments like guitar‚ bass guitar and piano. For the percussion‚ reggae use snare drums and tom0tom drums. Horns are also used like the saxophone‚ trumpet and trombone. Some

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    the world. As far as parallelisms go‚ both types of music were conceived in the late seventies and early eighties both are derived from the Death of Disco‚ which happened at Cominskey Park where the Chicago White Sox play in 1979. The Death of Disco which was originally titled “Disco Demolition” which was originally suppose to be a bonfire of disco records between a double header. It quickly turned into what you could describe as a mob scene which can be blamed on the hands of Steve Dahl creator

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    MÚSICO ALEJANDRO LORA‚ MÚSICO‚ CANTANTE‚ Y AUTOR DE LA MAYORÍA DE LAS CANCIONES DE LA BANDA. EN EL TIEMPO QUE LLEVA EN ACTIVO (45 AÑOS PARA EL 2013)‚3 LA BANDA HA EXPERIMENTADO CON SONIDOS DE ROCK Y BLUES. EL TRI HA VENDIDO MÁS DE 30 MILLONES DE DISCOS EN SU CARRERA Y HA TENIDO CINCO NOMINACIONES PARA EL PREMIO GRAMMY4 5 BAJO LA CATEGORÍA DE MEJOR ÁLBUM DE ROCK EN ESPAÑOL POR SU ÁLBUMES: CUANDO TÚ NO ESTÁS (1998)‚ FIN DE SIGLO (1999)‚ NO PODEMOS VOLAR (2001)‚ Y 35 AÑOS Y LO QUE FALTA TODAVÍA (2005)

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    Origin of the term Creation of the term hip hop is often credited to Keith Cowboy‚ rapper with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.[13] However‚ Lovebug Starski‚ Keith Cowboy‚ and DJ Hollywood used the term when the music was still known as disco rap.[14] It is believed that Cowboy created the term while teasing a friend who had just joined the U.S. Army‚ by scat singing the words "hip/hop/hip/hop" in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of soldiers marching.[13] Cowboy later worked the

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    the Funky Chicken and the Monkey. DISCO - 1970s The disco was an era that began in the mid-1970s‚ encouraging a whole generation to dance and party. It was a new dance style created in the West for entertainment and a wild new type of dance‚ that was considered exciting and fun. It became very popular in movies and nightclubs. John Travolta was the spotlight for starting this disco dance‚ from his role in the movie Saturday Night Fever. The original disco subculture was a fusion of the gay

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    patterns of functioning.” (Comer 2) The field is devoted to the scientific study of problems that obscure the line between normal and deviant behaviour. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the deviant behaviour of Diana Miller‚ also known as Disco Di. This paper will touch upon the diagnosis features‚ cultural and gender factors as well as paradigms and treatment methods‚ in order to analyze her specific case‚ understand the cause of Miller’s diagnosis as well as what contributed to her illness

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    Rap is something you do‚ Hip hop is something you live… A historical reflection of Hip Hop Name: Jake Parker Student number: 100072668 Date: Friday‚ March 30‚ 2007 Professor: Mark Adam Let ’s bring it back with that Ol ’ New York rap. Hip hop is amazing‚ straight up. It ’s not just the music‚ it ’s everything involved with the four elements of hip hop; the emceeing (rapping)‚ the DJing‚ the graffiti‚ and the break dancing. When I was younger I used to search for "hip-hop" and "rap"

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    popularity of disco dancing might provide the following: Background material: Disco dancing started in Europe‚ spread to the United States several years ago‚ and is currently popular all over the U.S. among all age groups. Thesis statement: Disco dancing has become the most popular form of entertainment because it . . . A paper on the effects of the popularity of disco dancing might use much the same material in its introduction. Thesis statement: The effects of the current craze for disco dancing are

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    What Is Popular Music?

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    1. Popular music is typically music that is in touch with the middle class originating in the mid-1800’s. 2. Pop music lyrics based on love and relationship. 3. Disco was developed in the 1970s. Disco began outside of mainstream America. Mixing vocals with a beat that encouraged dancing‚ disco became the dance music of the decade. The music often had 100 to 130 beats per minute. 4. In the 1960s Briish bands began to copy American bands particularly in the areas of producing recordings and touring

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    Explain how music can be seen as related to gender. For many years discussions of sexuality were informed by a distinction between ‘sex’ and ‘gender’. The sex of a person was judged to be ‘biologically determined’ and their gender to be ‘culturally and socially constructed’ (Abercrombie‚ Hill and Turner‚ 1988: 103). Gender roles are frequently based around the ideas that women are expected to be more passive and emotional and men more assertive and rational. “The first type of essentialism that

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