I am very fond of music. When I am free‚ I often listen to my favorite songs from an old cassette recorder. At weekends‚ I usually go to music shops in the downtown areas to buy good CDs. Of the famous pop singers‚ I prefer Frank Sinatra‚ Elvis Presley‚ Madona and Paul MC Cartney. I also spend an hour after dinner watching news and documentary programmes. I particularly enjoy the program "The World Here and There" because it broadens my knowledge of nature and human civilizations. My favourite
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THE BIRTH OF ROCK n’ ROLL - A CASE OF RACIAL CONFLICT The term rock ‘n’ roll has been traced back as far as the 1920s in black music‚ but it became an accepted when disc jockey Alan Freed began used it to describe the character of the rhythm and blues he played on his radio program in the mid-‘50s. The term “Rockin’ and Rollin” were originally used as slang for sex‚ in black pop music. However‚ it went on to become the name for a new‚ salacious musical genre. Innovation in audio technology‚ new
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mother was dead when I was a baby due to serious accident ‚so most of the time was my grandfather taking care of me .I can’t really remember how was my mother really looks like‚ but I will never forget my grandfather’s adorable face. He looked like Elvis Presley which has a bold hair‚ long legs and sparkling eyes. His pure and loving heart has cured a lot of my problems in my life. I still remembered that once I was really sad due to my red-crescent society club have lose the state level foot drill competition
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when he called Connie “My sweet little blue-eyed girl‚” making reference to Bob Dylan’s song. The character Ellie Oscar‚ Arnold’s companion‚ makes reference to the rise in importance of the pop-culture. The name Ellie signifies the popular singer Elvis Presley‚ and Oscar a connection to the highest award possible in the pop-culture world. The sexual context of the story suggests the negative criticism of Oates towards the sexual revolution. One of the characters in the story is Pettinger girl‚ whose
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The USA learned from its predecessor’s mistakes and‚ as its first effort‚ established a public school system‚ based on English language. Consequently‚ the literacy rate rose rapidly‚ and first fictional texts written in the language of the new rulers were published shortly after the change. Already during the 1920s the former elite language was replaced by English‚ soon also practiced as a medium of fiction. In the 1940s‚ some authors writing in English‚ such like Jose Garcia Villa and Carlos Bulosan
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Do you ever wonder why certain places mean so much to certain people? When I think of my bedroom‚ I realize why some people are so crazy about locking their doors and not letting anyone inside it and touch their stuff. My bedroom is the place where I can sit back and relax. It is the only place where I can get away from the world‚ away from the stressing college student life; a place away from work and rude customers‚ that even though no matter how nice you are to them‚ there’s always someone
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Wayne May Erin Rehberg DANCE APPRECIATION – DANCE 1000-D01 December 4‚ 2014 What Do You Dance? After the Swing Era and World War II‚ American social dancing cooled down in the late 1940s‚ in a shift from dance bands to concerts in night clubs. In Michigan I was a teenager that was used to my parent’s country music and dancing. Throughout the years of me growing up to listening and dancing to country music and some rock music my uncle listened to that was all I was use to until I became 14yrs old
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Looking at the influential power of rock ‘n’ roll‚ Glenn C. Altschuler‚ in his book‚ concentrates on the abrupt social change and developments in America during the 1940s to 1960s through the lens of popular music. Altschuler argues rock ‘n’ roll was a pivotal moment‚ it changed the youth culture of America and encouraged everyone to be more accepting of people of all races‚ ages and sexualities. The power of music was certainly influential and aided as a catalyst to change‚ but he grants rock ‘n’
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Vicente Fernandez is a well know Mexican actor‚ producer and singer‚ Vicente is known as the king of ranchera music all over the world. Vicente started singing on the streets when he was a young boy for tips‚ Vicente came from a very poor family‚ he was forced to drop out of fifth grade to support his family. He got little jobs around his home town. He says he would stop cars and offer to sing to them for a few pesos in Guadalajara‚ but has now won seven Latin Grammys and one Grammy. Vicente was
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Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock ’n’ roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s‚[1][2] primarily from a combination of African American blues‚ country‚ jazz‚[3] and gospel music.[4] Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in country records of the 1930s‚[3] and in blues records from the 1920s‚[5] rock and roll did not acquire its name until the 1950s.[6][7] The term "rock and roll" now has at least
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