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    Jazz and Blues

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    Thesis Statement: Blues and Jazz are different in several major ways. I. Blues and Jazz are different in terms of feeling. A. By performing or listening to the Blues‚ one is able to overcome sadness. 1. Blues is based on the music of African-American playing to express longing for better life and lost loves‚ jobs‚ and money. 2. Because African-American‚ in the past‚ did not know about music theory‚ they played out of major scale notes‚ and therefore‚ makes the feeling of sadness

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    The Weary Blues

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    In the poem "The Weary Blues”‚ Langston Hughes describes an evening of listening to a blues musician in Harlem. “The Wear Blues” By: Langston Hughes Droning a drowsy syncopated tune‚ Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon‚ I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway . . . He did a lazy sway . . . To the tune o’ those Weary Blues. With his ebony hands on each ivory key He made that poor piano

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    Sonny's Blues

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    How does Baldwin’s real-life experience connect to his short story‚ "Sonny’s Blues"? The writer was a poor boy growing up. He was also a Negro‚ so things were bad for him and his family in white America. He probably felt sad every day of his childhood so he turned to books for entertainment and maybe escape. When he started reading‚ he found that he liked it and wanted to create stories for other people to enjoy‚ but he was a poor Negro boy who could not expect help from the whites‚ so he taught

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    Blues and Music

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    music and dancing that inspired unrestrained dances. Again these dances and music now are ever so accepted within the American culture. Jazz was only a segment of it as later‚ other genre came into light such as rock-n-roll. A combination of blues music‚ and traditional pop (both vocal and instrumental) combined to bring us a new sound entitled Rock and Roll. The combination of the two was

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    Refugee Blues

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    Language about war | Ten thousand soldiers marched to and fro. Looking for you and me‚ my dear‚ looking for you and me | Ten thousand soldiers are looking for two people- All the soldiers are looking for the Jews | | | | | | | Refugee blues- blues music Ten million souls (religious‚ holy‚ implies we are all the same) Society is unfair on the way it treats people (some are living in mansions‚ some are living in holes) Atlas – there not anywhere close to there home‚

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    The blues were consequentially “about heartbreak‚ loneliness‚ sadness‚ and the trials and troubles of daily life” (“History and Influence”). The genre of blues was essential in helping African Americans cope with their disadvantaged lives. Wining Boy illustrates the significance of the blues coping mechanism with the loss of his most cherished woman‚ Cleotha. A major aspect of the play involves strife

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    The Weary Blues Analysis

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    The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes is an influential protest poem that depicts a man in a blues bar‚ who is playing away at the piano‚ singing the blues. The poem was obviously developed at the time of the Harlem Renaissance and was published in 1923. The weary blues won multiple awards due to its influential style of writing. The Weary Blues was publish in a place called Harlem‚ which was filled with musical and artistic potential. At the time of the Harlem Renaissance‚ the musical genre known

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    Devil In Blue Monologue

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    the devil in disguise. FEELING THE BLUES If the skies are shining a dark shade of blue‚ perhaps I’m feeling the blues. I’m drowning in my own mischief. I lay in the midst of a shadowy field‚ filled with bugs that light and dance. I stare at the sky‚ a mirror‚ looking into the unknown. My heart feels the blues. Blues of a star-lit night sky. The blue shines above me‚ I’ll count each star. I’m a man of the blues. I’m the mad man who talks to the moon

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    Am I Blue?

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    “Am I Blue?” by Bruce Coville and “Hum” by Naomi Shihab Nye both illustrate the uselessness of judging a book by its cover. In the short story “Am I Blue?” by Bruce Coville‚ Vince‚ the main character‚ discovers that people are not always what them seem. In this story Vince‚ who is questioning his sexuality‚ is the main target for harassment because his classmates think he is gay. When Vince receives his very own fairy godfather‚ he makes a wish that turns everyone who is gay the color blue. Vince

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    Lady Sings the Blues

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    LADY SINGS THE BLUES What is a song but a poem set to music? Take away the music from a good song and the rhythm of the words will create its own musical sound. "Songs For a Colored Singer"‚ a poem written by Elizabeth Bishop‚ is a song without the music. Bishop’s use of repetitive rhymes creates the lyrical‚ song like‚ structure to her poem. The voice of the song belongs to a black woman who encounters adversity throughout the poem. The sum of the elements‚ a black woman singing about hard times

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