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    of bebop and hosted artists such as Dizzy Gillespie‚ Charlie Christian. the house band included Thelonious Monk on piano‚ Joe Guy on trumpet‚ Nick Fenton on bass‚ and Kenny Clarke on drums. Billy Strayhorn – famous for his collaboration with Duke Ellington. Billy Berg’s – jazz club in Hollywood. Lionel Hampton – one of the first to use the vibraphone in jazz. Part of Benny Goodman’s quartet‚ along with Gene Krupa‚ Teddy Wilson and Goodman. This group was

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    “Paper Planes” - M.I.A. Paper Planes is a song that paper took the nation by storm in 2007. The song perfectly correlates with the seemingly-insane Mary Talbot of chapter 24. Mary is never specified to have some mental illness‚ and she might not have one‚ but the chapter supports it. Mary lives impoverished‚ but Mary loves to throw parties‚ and throughout she is trying to invite others to join. She gets stuck trying to invite “Mrs. Casini‚” who is revealed to be a cat. This turn of events is quite

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    People like Duke Ellington‚ Langston Hughes‚ and Louis Armstrong. These amazing writers‚ actors‚ and musicians were the main reason for the Harlem Renaissance‚ it started because they were not taken seriously‚ all because of the color of their skin. Due to the Harlem

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    control for a mere 24 year old. As many have observed‚ to get from Louis Armstrong to modern trumpeters‚ in addition to Miles Davis‚ Fats Navarro and Lee Morgan‚ you have to give very serious consideration to Clifford Brown. His solos‚ for example on Duke Jordan’s "Jordu" or on the three Clifford Brown originals‚ "Daahoud"‚ "The Blues Walk" and "Joy Spring"‚ now jazz standards‚ are beautifully controlled yet expressive. Harold Land‚ much overlooked‚ plays fluid‚ sinuous saxophone and shares real understanding

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    Moss Kendrix was born in Atlanta‚ Georgia in 1917. His early education was obtained through the local public schools. He later attended Atlanta’s Morehouse College‚ a respected college for African-American men. Kendrix was a popular college student‚ who became the editor of the Morehouse newspaper The Maroon Tiger‚ and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He was also the co-founder of the Phi Delta Delta Journalism Society‚ the first and only society of its kind for African-American journalism

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    Weary Blues. After that he was awarded his Bachelor’s degree from Lincoln University. Hughes became a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance; Hughes along with Billy Holliday and Duke Ellington were just a few of the scores of other African Americans who shaped the movement. Black artists such as Hughes‚ Ellington‚ and Holliday pushed art to its limits as a form of expression and representation during the nineteen twenties in what was to be known as the “New Negro Movement” or the Harlem Renaissance

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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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    united together and marched working together to free the Scottsboro boys from the trials. One way that they got together was having meetings in churches‚ parks‚ and schools trying to free the Scottsboro boys. Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes are also very good examples in the north because Duke performed many concerts and Langston made plays and poems in the defense of the boys. North had a famous marching slogan which was “ Black and white unite and fight.” Clearly‚ the Scottsboro trials made the

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    To begin with‚ the Western world used the term the Roaring Twenties to refer to the period of 1920s. This period did usher in the birth of a modernized national lifestyle; because Americans who were war-weary did come to value leisure and also convenience over self-denial and leisure. The main characteristics of this new national consumer-based society were; 1. Culture clashes People’s culture was clashed during this period where they had to adopt a new way of doing things. 2. Politics of fear During

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    elite should lead Blacks to liberation.” http://www.eram.k12.ny.us/education/components/whatsnew/default.php?sectiondetailid=23130&&PHPSESSID=e0a64029c09716761056932b46c6816b Art and literature came from the Harlem era. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was a musician who came from the Harlem Renaissance. Blacks and whites would dance the night away together at the speakeasies were he would perform. Writers like Langston Hughes and Claude McKay inspired the African Americans of the time to

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