The Jazz music of the Big Band Era was the pinnacle of more than thirty years of melodic advancement. Jazz was so creative and diverse that it could truly clear the world‚ changing the melodic styles of about each nation. Enormous band Jazz that makes the feet tap and the heart race with fervor that it is perceived with almost every kind of music. The melodic and social upset that achieved Jazz was an immediate consequence of African-Americans seeking after vocations in expressions of the human experience
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Bebop: A Controversial Transition to Modern Jazz Nathan Marketich Music 0711 Professor Leon Dorsey Recitation TA: Alton Merrell 1:00 December 10‚ 2010 The decade of the 1940’s was an important era in the history of jazz. The 1940’s was a transition from traditional jazz into modern jazz. Leading this transition was the introduction of the Bebop period in Jazz. Bebop created controversy in the jazz world for being a contradiction to traditional jazz and was widely disliked by many audiences
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From Jazz to Hip Hop New genres of music often start off with an underground following. As the music evolves it eventually loses its subversive feel. It is no longer revolutionary nor a creative art form‚ thus it becomes a product of popular culture found amongst the demographics of MTV. One popular style of music that grew by countering American culture is jazz. Today jazz is often compared to hip-hop; both art forms have grown from an underground following to counter American culture. Furthermore
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New Orleans Jazz Band: Dag "They have a word down South to describe the way you feel when your packed into a crowded dive at 1:00 AM‚ where the cigarette smoke is so thick it makes its own weather; and the waitress is slinging bourbon and Fritos while some bad-ass Jazz Funk band rocks the house as hard as Blue Ridge granite‚ and the sweat flows down from the stage like the cloudy waters of Pamlico Sound. There’s a word for how you feel when you hear live Jazzy-funk music so sweet and hot‚ you
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Ken Robinson: Schools Killing Creativity Ken Robinson: Schools Killing Creativity and Escaping Education’s Death Valley In this “TED talk” segment by Ken Robinson‚ an English born professor explains why the educational system in the U.S. is remaining stagnant and unfulfilling to students needs. Robinson begins his arguments by stating‚ “The educational system of the United States has been accompanied by the same curriculum for the past 125 years”. Schools are unknowingly turning creative
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School kills creativity – Ken Robinson In his speech at the TED conference in February 2006‚ Sir Ken Robinson claims for a reformation of the current creativity retarding worldwide education system. His point of departure is that children are born with huge talents‚ wasted by the contemporary education system. While children are not afraid of being wrong‚ school and the ecological system eliminate this attitude. Robinson thinks that this‚ making mistakes‚ is the only way to develop new ideas‚ although
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Guide: Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: Episode 3 Date:______________ Directions: Before viewing the film‚ read each question below so you know what information and ideas you should be looking for as you watch Episode 3. Record your answers to each question by providing as many facts‚ details‚ and examples as possible to answer each question. Be prepared to discuss your answers with the class. You will use some of the information collected to create a class project. 1. According to Jared Diamond‚ what
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by Mr. Rutland the founder of the National Jazz Hall of Fame (NJHF). Basically the NJHF was established to maintain a jazz museum in an old Paramount theatre. For doing that he needed funding around 600 000$. Over all there are three main problems: 1. How to raise funding for the project; 2. How to organize a professional team which can execute the project; 3. How to organize marketing activities to attract national recognition. Problems 1 and 3 were closely linked with professional
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Concert Review 1 Jazz Concert The concert I attended stared two very talented African musicians‚ Lionel Loueke and Richard Bona. This was the first concert I had ever been to. I had never seen professional artists perform live before so seeing these two men that were well known in the jazz world was amazing. It was nothing like I expected‚ I thought the concert was just going to be regular old jazz songs‚ but the way these guys played it was like they were free styling the entire show. The musician
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Episode 113: A Vigil of Last Duties or In the Court of the Catholic Queen It is God’s will. Isabella drives herself relentlessly‚ exacerbating her failing health. Her confidant‚ Marquesa de Moya‚ counsels her to slow down. Isabella dismisses her friend’s advice. She and God know best. She’s been in failing health since the deaths of her children and hasn’t let that impede her from her duties. While at high mass‚ she faints and is carried back to La Mota Castle‚ alarming and shocking her subjects
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