Tap & Jazz! A Skill For A Lifetime! As a child I wasn’t able to participate in too many activities. I had two other siblings and it just wasn’t feasible for my parents to enroll us in a lot of extracurricular events. My sister took ballet as a child. I would attend classes with her and I would watch her perform her routines. I became interested in what she did but I didn’t think “ballet” was for me‚ but I did want to participate in some form of performing arts. I liked to dance but ballet was too
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Fruit The Jazz Influence on Their Eyes Were Watching God In the late 1930’s‚ during the Harlem Renaissance‚ when Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God was written‚ the sounds of jazz and blues music filled the air (Hurston). Revolutionary artists such as Duke Elington‚ Teddy Wilson and Bessie Smith became household names as African-Americans began to develop a reputation for themselves as musicians (Blackburn). Among these artists was Billie Holiday‚ "the first popular jazz singer
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History of Rock ‘n Jazz: Jazz Review Kind of Blue – Miles Davis Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue exemplifies my favorite merits of cool jazz. The bestselling jazz album is bursting with innovative music that is largely independent from the routine melody and rhythm that often accompanied jazz music before the records conception; its recordings perpetuate a sound that is both tranquil and engaging. The artists responsible for creating this widely recognized album are Miles Davis on trumpet‚ Jon Coltrane
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The Meaning of Jazz in African American Culture Particularly in Harlem During the 1950’s In the Baldwin’s story‚ Sonny’s Blues‚ the author portrays African -Americans in the urban life. Even though he writes about reconciliation of two brothers‚ who are trying to overcome their differences and to come to understand each other‚ the story shows the meaning of Jazz in African American culture‚ particularly in Harlem during 1950. The urban life in Harlem has being described by many authors‚ including
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AP English Language and Composition Sample Responses to Questions on Ralph Ellison’s “On Bird‚ Bird-Watching‚ and Jazz” 1. Why do the first two sentences contain qualifiers (“oddly enough‚” “however”)? Ellison is floating some theories here‚ an activity he has invited the reader to join. Those qualifiers leave room for doubt and alternative interpretations. He may also be acknowledging that his quest for a definitive explanation of Parker’s nickname might be a little odd and run into more than
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“The Jazz Singer” Before watching “The Jazz Singer”‚ I had no idea of its cultural or historical significance. I learned that it was the first motion picture to have synchronized dialogue and words. It set the precedent for cinematography‚ live voice recordings‚ and real-time dialogue. The film was based on a short story written only a few years prior. The story was called “The Day of Atonement” and was authored by Samson Raphaelson. The short story was then adapted into an onstage musical in
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DNCE131: Exam 1 Study Guide FALL 2013: Professor Flickinger 1. Copeland and Cohen. “What is Dance?” pg 1 -Understand the three basic art theories being discussed -Aristotle is responsible for what part of Western Storytelling/Narrative -Focus on the arguments of Martin‚ Levinson‚ Goodman‚ & Sparshott 2. Sklar. “Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance” pg 30 -Understand the five premises and their importance to discussing dance cross culturally -Be able to define Empathic
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Compare and contrast the instrumentation and improvisation of two recordings made between 1910-1950. Comment on how jazz has developed between these recordings “Dixie jazz band one-step” was recorded in 1917 by the “Original Dixieland Jazz Band” (ODJB) who inherited much instrumentation from New Orleans Brass Band tradition. In this piece they made use of a typical small combo with a ‘frontline’‚ including cornet‚ clarinet and trombone‚ and a ‘rhythm’ section consisting of piano and drums. Charlie
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JavaArray An array is a container object that holds a fixed number of values of a single type. The length of an array is established when the array is created. After creation‚ its length is fixed. You have seen an example of arrays already‚ in the main method of the "Hello World!" application. This section discusses arrays in greater detail. An array of 10 elements. Each item in an array is called an element‚ and each element is accessed by its numerical index. As shown in the preceding
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PRACTICAL: 1 Aim : Write a program to implement Calculator using java applet. Tools : NetBeans IDE 7.0.1‚JDK Theory:- Pluggable look and feel is a mechanism used in the Java Swing widget toolkit allowing to change the look and feel of the graphical user interface at runtime. Swing allows an application to specialize the look and feel of widgets by modifying the default (via runtime parameters)‚ deriving from an existing one‚ by creating one from scratch. The javax.swing.plaf package consists
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