New York City‚ Artie Shaw would become one of the top bandleaders in the swing era. He began his musical career as a highly sought-after alto saxophone player in the New York area‚ and was able to benefit from the growth of radio and studio recordings. As he perfected his technical ability with various dance bands‚ he was still relatively unknown in the early 30’s when he began to focus exclusively on the Clarinet while Swing music began to grow in popularity. While we may carefully analyze the
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The theme of "Midaq Alley" cuts to the heart of Arab society. Namely‚ it shows how a group of characters living in the same slum neighborhood responds to the combined promise and threat of Western-influenced modernization. Midaq Alley is about the Egyptian residents of a hustling‚ packed back alley in Cairo in the 1940’s. The attempts of several residents to escape the alley and move up in status end with dreams broken and unfulfilled. The opening sentences of "Midaq Alley" points to a world bypassed
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early 1900’s‚ swing dancing has livened up the dance floors across the United States. Many versions of swing dancing are still in existence today. Of those dances (the Lindy Hop‚ Jitterbug‚ East Coast Swing‚ West Coast Swing‚ and the Charleston)‚ the two most common amongst the social dancers are the East Coast Swing and West Coast Swing. Though they derived from the same dance‚ the Lindy Hop‚ many things set them apart from one another. The style‚ frame‚ and beat of the West Coast Swing make it the
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The Swing by Pierre Renoir The impressionist movement started when Claude Monet and other artists held an exhibition in Paris in 1874. People like Edgar Degas‚ Claude Monet‚ Pierre Renoir‚ Camille Pissaro created their most important work between 1870 to around 1910. The critics gave the exhibition the worst reviews possible. "The critics considered Impressionist paintings an insult to viewers because they were expected to accept apparently unfinished art as a real’ painting." The name was
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TORNADO ALLEY “ A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that extend down from a dark clouds and moves over land in a narrow‚ destructive path.”( earth science textbook) That is the definition of a tornado it doesn’t sound fun or cheerful at all. but to the people that live in tornado alley it is something they are used to. There are many factors the cause tornados to appear in tornado alley‚ but the main one is location. But where is the location?? Why is it this location?? Locations
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The Swing ¡§Inviting¡¨ is the word that comes to mind when I look at the painting The Swing. This masterpiece was Jean-Honore Fragonard¡¦s most famous Rococo piece painted in 1766. The most prominent reason I enjoy this painting is because there is some sort of story line or drama unveiling here. The painting is starring Barton de Saint-Julien and his mistress who is swinging on a twiddled vine looped down from a tree and co-starring is an older gentleman who is left back in the shadows as if
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Dionysus ‘Dionysus’ is a beautiful sculpture of Dionysus‚ the Greek God of Wines and Fertility‚ and Pan‚ the God of the Wilderness. The sculpture originated from the Roman Empire around 50-150 A.D. Even though a Roman artist created the sculpture‚ it holds a significant influence of the Greek art technique. The Romans got most‚ if not all of their creative ideas for art from the cultures they defeated. This magnificent artwork incorporates the elements of the Greeks naturalistic style‚ along with
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Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn from the Latin word “stannum.” Its atomic number is 50 and its atomic mass is 118.71. Tin is classified in the ’Other Metals’ section which can be located in groups 13‚ 14‚ and 15 of the Periodic Table. All of these elements are solid‚ have a relatively high density and are opaque. This silvery‚ ductile metal is not easily oxidized in air and resists corrosion. Tin is usually malleable‚ but when cooled it is very brittle. It is found in many alloys
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Midaq Alley Naguib Mahfouz To what extent is Midaq Alley an “Arab” novel? Does this add to or detract from the novel’s overall impact on an international audience. The work of literature “Midaq Alley” by Naguib Mahfouz introduces the audience an Arab culture through his descriptions of different characters. Each character is used as an analogue‚ representing people in the alley with different beliefs and ambitions. Moreover‚ the characteristics of Mahfouz’s characters also draw international readers’
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slightest extent of misunderstanding‚ is to start at the very beginning. My question for the history books‚ is where did swing music originate? Upon further research I came to the conclusion that the United States is a relatively young country‚ and I decided to extend my question to take in the influence the world has had on the development of swing music in the United States. Swing can reasonably be referred to as an international project that was born in America. It was not accomplished simply‚ quickly
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