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    Funeral Blues

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    Teiairra Johnson Professor Drummond-Matthews English Comp. II February 1‚ 2012 Funeral Blues Explication In W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues”‚he uses a sort of calm or sorrowful tone. The woman in this poem says‚ “Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚”(1) She is wanting to give respect to the dead. She says to get rid of the noises that may be distracting from the process of mourning. Auden creates a mood or sense of respectfulness. The first stanza is stating to get

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    people think of the blues they usually don’t think of Africa or Africans but what might surprise you is that Blues music was developed by African Americans in the early 19th century and the early 20th century. Blues evolved from a genre of unaccompanied vocal music sung by destitute African-American workers. In America Blues music originated from “African spirituals‚ African chants‚ work songs‚ field hollers‚ rural fife and drum music‚ revivalist hymns‚ and country dance music.” Blues in America originated

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    Blues Music | Influences on Civil Rights in the United States | Addy Phillips | Eddie James “Son” House‚ Jr.‚ an American blues singer and guitarist once stated‚ "People keep asking me where the blues started and all I can say is that when I was a boy we always was singing in the fields. Not real singing‚ you know‚ just hollerin’‚ but we made up our songs about things that was happening to us at the time‚ and I think that’s where the blues started (Cohn‚ 1993).” House‚ living through

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    All blues commentry Introduction The piece "all blues" is from the album Kind of Blue‚ the composer is Miles Davis and it was composed in 1959. the style of the piece is Jazz and another example of Jazz is Louis Armstrong (trumpet/cornet/voice) Terrible Blues with his band the Red Onion Jazz Babies. Background Miles Davis was born in Illinois in May 1926. He knew from a very young early age that he wanted to be a musician. He started learning the trumpet at a young age‚ looking up to his heroes

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    one of the most popular music genres at the time was the Jump Blues. The Jump Blues genre had made a rise to popularity back in the late 1930’s through the 1940’s. This genre alone seems to have a very fast tempo and it even has some jazz elements to it. The instruments that are usually involved in Jump Blues are brass instruments‚ electric guitars‚ saxophone‚ piano‚ and the drums. One of the most prominent artist within the Jump Blues genre is a man named Louis Jordan. Louis Jordan‚ in my opinion

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    “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin Internal and External conflicts Sonny is a young boy from Harlem struggling with his addiction to heroin and is eventually sent to jail for it. The Narrator‚ Sonny’s older brother is a high school Algebra teacher who loses connection with Sonny and does not realize where Sonny is till he reads in the newspaper about Sonny being imprisoned. During Sonny’s journey to get back on his feet once he incurs internal and external conflicts along the way. The series of

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    Baldwin never exactly mentions the time‚ it is believed by most columnists that Sonny’s Blues takes place somewhere in the 1950’s‚ or in the Post-WWII era. The setting in which the story takes place is in Harlem. This period was a significant era for Harlem. Harlem happen to be a place separate from civilization where people were free to do as they pleased which permitted for creative art in the forms of writing‚ poetry‚ paintings‚ and music to display; yet‚ it also gave life to drug use‚ sexual

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    The title of the play is called “Blues For Mister Charlie.” James Baldwin gives this play this title because he is leaving a message to the readers and that message can be interpreted in different ways. How I interpret the title is that I think Mister Charlie is referring to the white folks in white town. Blues is a type of music that black American uses as a way to express their feeling and emotions that can’t be expressed through words. The emotions of sadness‚ melancholy‚ and depression that African

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    “Sonny’s Blues‚” a short story written by James Baldwin‚ highlights both the peace and the trials of life in Harlem during the 1950s. Sonny‚ the narrator’s brother‚ is a young musician who struggles with a heroin addiction‚ turning the narrator’s life upside down. Sonny has a “love” for both music and heroin‚ both of which help him mentally escape the harsh society he faces in the poverty-stricken and dangerous Harlem. Sonny’s passion for the freedom that both heroin and music causes him to feel

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    St. Louis Blues

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    185‚ Summer 2009 For my listening assignment‚ I chose the piece‚ “St. Louis Blues” by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong‚ recorded in the late 1920s. At this time‚ the country was in the transition from country blues (a single artist accompanied by a single guitar) to city blues (a single artist accompanied by either a piano and/or several instruments). In city blues‚ the form was based on a very rigid 12-bar blues structure‚ which used mainly the I‚ IV‚ and V7 chords in similar progressions each

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