listening to the bossa nova‚ most people in America think that the music resembles jazz (in a laid back way) more so than it does samba. This might have to do with the fact that we‚ in America‚ listen to jazz much more often than we listen to samba rhythms causing our ears to be prone to noticing the jazz aspects of the music and somewhat disregarding the samba aspects. And on top it all‚ because the bossa nova resembles jazz but in a laid back way‚ the tendency is to believe that it is laid back because
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[pic] MATRICULATION COLLEGE OF NEGERI SEMBILAN ENGLISH WB023 SESSION 2010/2011 ‘THE INFLUENCE OF MUSIC ON TEENAGERS’ MEMBERS OF RESEARCH TEAM : MUHAMMAD AFIQ BIN MD DAIM MS1012505095 IDA FARHANA BINTI ROSLAN MS1012504521 SITI NORHANNAN ASHIKIN BINTI A MUIN MS1012506771 SITI NADIRAH BINTI OTHMAN MS1012506751 PRACTICUM GROUP : F2P7 LECTURER : MADAM CHEAH YIT YING SUBMISSION DATE : 11TH January 2011 Acknowledgement
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John Coltrane John Coltrane the Experimental Musician Jazz‚ taking its roots in African American folk music‚ has evolved‚ metamorphosed‚ and transposed itself over the last century to become a truly American art form. More than any other type of music‚ it places special emphasis on innovative individual interpretation. Instead of relying on a written score‚ the musician improvises. For each specific period or style through which jazz has gone through over the past seventy years‚ there is almost
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Charlie Parker (1920 1955) Charlie Parker spent his childhood in Kansas City‚ Missouri‚ one of the hottest jazz spots in the country. His father was looking for jobs as a song and dance man so he moved the family there to find work. Unable to find a job‚ Charlie’s dad left to go work on the railroad. He had to travel long distances and was gone a lot of the time. In the end‚ he left the family altogether and Charlie’s mom had to provide for the two of them. Sometimes‚ she worked two or three
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themselves what life was all about.” (Colleen Moore) The jazz age is defined as an era in which America underwent an intense changed and experienced social reforms. The jazz age pushed for the bigger and the better‚ and a craving for material goods. This new found desire resulted in an abolishment of basic morals among the common day people. In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Daisy and Gatsby both represent the idealism of the jazz age through their list for materialism and immoral actions
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age of fifteen and was homeless for a while. She found work wherever she could‚ but it was a struggle. Looking back on those days‚ she chose to use the memories as inspiration to bring emotion to her singing. Growing up‚ Fitzgerald was a fan of jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby‚ but she had always dreamed of being a dancer. In 1934‚ the Apollo Theater in Harlem had an amateur night. Fitzgerald was planning on dancing‚ until she saw all of the talented dancers that went before
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and Coltrane did indeed find work as a laborer in a sugar-refining factory. A couple of months later he enrolled in the Ornstein School of Music on 19th and Spruce Streets. In Philadelphia John Pg. 2 Coltrane could hear a lot of the blues and jazz which weren’t often broadcast in the South further extending his experience and horizons. He continued to practice his sax alone in his room until he was drafted into the Navy band in 1945. He returned to Philadelphia in 1946 after being discharged
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In 1954‚ the English composer‚ Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote the “Concerto for Bass tuba” dedicate to the London Symphony Orchestra to perform for the London Symphony Orchestra Jubilee Concert on 13th June 1954 premiered by Philip Catelinet‚ the principal tuba of London Symphony orchestra that time. Soon later‚ in 1955‚ a German composer Paul Hindemith also wrote his “Sonata for tuba and piano” included in his instrumental Sonata series
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The Disillusioned Society of the 1920’s The Jazz Age of the 1920’s can be described as a dizzying whirl of a time. The U.S. economy had boomed from manufacturing success in WWI‚ and wealth was well distributed enough for most people to not have to worry about money in major cities. However‚ these national achievements were not only a source of excitement‚ but served as a blindfold over the eyes of the 1920’s society as well. Despite the appearance of everlasting happiness for the people of 1920’s
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John Coltrane The ever growing love that I have for jazz was started because a friend told me to buy a John Coltrane CD the summer before my freshman year in college. For as long as I have known my friend he has always been interested in music and has played drums for the majority of his life. He had a few albums of Coltrane ’s and would always tell me I would love them. I remember the first time I heard that piercing voice that Coltrane gets out of his tenor saxophone. I took a trip out to
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