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    Bud Powell falls into the category of the jazz style of bebop. This style began in the 1940s and was something totally unexpected. It had really fast tempos‚ which were unusual for jazz at the time.”This was not dance music‚ and it was never really intended to be popular. It was jazz for the artists themselves and for the true jazz lovers.”(Hopkins Lesson 7). But become popular it did. Not only that but it “established the primacy of virtuosic solo improvisation” (Hopkins Lesson 7). In this sense

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    Impact Of The Jazz Age

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    What was the impact of the Jazz Age? The Jazz Age showcased the talents of African American artists and influenced new genres in the future such as modal jazz‚ hard bop‚ rhythm and blues‚ gospel‚ and many more. The Jazz Age also impacted the literary world through jazz poetry‚ a type of poetry that imitates jazz-like rhythms and improvisation. Jazz led to dance crazes such as the Charleston‚ a dance named after the South Carolina town of Charleston. Young people danced dances such as the Charleston

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    For my music review I saw the MDC Jazz Band & Jubilation Dance Ensemble. The conductor was Matt Bonelli and the dance coordinator was Michelle Grant Murray. The concert was held in the McCarthy Auditorium Room 6120 on Tuesday‚ October 28 2012. The concert started at 7:30 pm and ended at 8:40 pm. There were five jazz performances and four dance performances happening mostly simultaneously. The first piece‚ "Wind Blues‚" had a very harsh sound and was hard to listen to‚ partly because it was very

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    The third modern innovation is sound. People have been fascinated with sound ever since people started living in caves. A music ethnographer discovered that the paintings on the wall of a cave were in the most acoustically interesting part of the cave. This part of the cave had the strongest reverberation so it is speculated that early Neanderthals discovered the reverberation as well and experimented with it. This fascination with sound helped women in the workplace‚ aided in the civil rights movement

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    In the film‚ The Jazz Singer‚ the protagonist‚ Jakie Rabinowitz‚ goes through a major character change in becoming Americanized. That is‚ in leaving his family’s Jewish faith‚ he adopts the attitude and culture of the American way of life. However‚ there are many phases and steps he takes in doing this along the way. The first signs are the feud between Jakie and his father and goes as far as his name changing and meeting with a Gentile. Because of these changes he chooses to make‚ his Jewish way

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    keyword:   Sort By:   Your search returned over 400 essays for "music". To narrow your search results‚ please add more search terms to your query. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [Next >>] These results are sorted by most relevant first (ranked search). You may also sort these by color rating or essay length. Title Length Color Rating   Benefits of Music - MusicMusic is enough for a lifetime‚ but a lifetime is not enough for music.” These were the words of Sergei Rachmaninoff‚ a Russian composer and

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    the audience go crazy with a great performance. 2. When did Latin music burst back on the scene? What song brought it back to the mainstream? What effect did it have? * “Conga” by the Miami Sound Machine was a Cuban American band with an amazing beat. Everyone seemed to love the new sound. 3. How did the sounds of salsa change? * The sounds of salsa changed to grab the interest of a new generation raised on jazz‚ rock ‘n roll‚ etc. In other words‚ it was incorporated with pop.

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    3 July 2013 A New Jazz “Post-war America‚ Jazz and Heroin” by Zenga Longmore and James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” Life after the Second World War changed for many‚ including the previously jolly jazzmen in Harlem. Whether through conspiracy‚ a search to remedy the anxieties of a ‘struggling for image’ musician‚ or just something that was pressed as a requirement to belong‚ heroin certainly made its bleak presence known. Trumpeter Red Rodney once said‚ “Heroin became the thing that made

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    Jazz has been in the white house almost as long as it has existed‚ but on national jazz day‚ which is April 30th‚ President Obama hosted a jazz concert. This concert featured a wide variety of artists including Chick Corea‚ Robert Glasper‚ Esperanza Spalding‚ Aretha Franklin‚ Wayne Shorter‚ and many others. During this performance‚ there are thirteen different “groups” or different artists that sung at the white house for jazz day. The first performance after president Obama spoke was Aretha

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    Music and Its Importance

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    I. Music is an important part of the lives of many around the universe. Music is used throughout the day‚ every day. Whether performing it‚ teaching it‚ or simply enjoying it‚ music evokes attitudes in people. It transcends expectations and leaps over culture values. It makes you think‚ feel‚ and allows you to understand universal ideas. Music speaks for you when you have no words to say. Although there are lots of different types of my music my favorite is Rhythm and Blues. Rhythm and Blues (also

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