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    Bob Dylan

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    Bob Dylan: An Influence for a Generation “A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night‚ and in between dose what he wants to do” --words spoken by the singer/songwriter Bob Dylan. Being a man of success himself‚ yet a very humble and simple man‚ changed the way people view musical quality. Dylan was awarded with the number one song in the twentieth century with those lyrics from his masterpiece Like a Rolling Stone‚ by Rolling Stone Magazine. His poetic words were

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    The Electric Miles Davis Born in Alton‚ Illinois‚ Miles Davis grew up in a middle-class family in East St. Louis. Miles Davis took up the trumpet at the age of 13 and was playing professionally two years later. Some of his first gigs included performances with his high school bandand playing with Eddie Randall and the blue Devils. Miles Davis has said that the greatest musical experience of his life was hearing the Billy Eckstine orchestra when it passed through St. Louis. In September

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    Bob Dylan Regarding significant musical movements throughout history‚ especially the twentieth century‚ few had more of an influential impact or were more important than the folk revolution that took shape in the mid-nineteen hundreds in the United States. One of the leaders of this revolution was Robert Allen Zimmerman‚ known by his stage name‚ Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan was a major influential musical icon for today’s artists as well as future artists to come. His music was embodied by historical

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    Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24‚ 1941) is an American singer-songwriter‚ musician‚ artist‚ bard and‚ more recently‚ disc jockey‚ who has been a foremost character in fashionable music for five decades. Much of his largely celebrated handiwork dates from the 1960s when he was‚ at first‚ an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social instability. A quantity of his songs‚ such as "Blowin’ in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin’‚" became anthems

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    Miles Davis

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    Miles Davis: The music’s right but the approach is wrong. Music listeners everywhere have heard at least a smidgen of the music from “the prince of darkness”. Although Miles Davis‚ dubbed the “most revered jazz trumpeter of all time‚ not to mention one of the most important musicians of the 20th century” by Rolling Stone Magazine and known as the birth of cool‚ attitudes and behaviors we never truly kind and the man was notoriously known as a jerk‚ his music was of great importance to the jazz

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    History of Jazz Miles Davis Born on May 26‚ 1926‚ Miles Davis is considered to be one of the most influential jazz musicians in history. Being a trumpeter‚ keyboardist‚ composer‚ and band-leader‚ Miles is responsible for the popularization of many styles of jazz throughout his long and prolific career. Miles Dewey Davis was born into a well-to-do family in the town of Alton‚ Illinois. The family owned a large portion of a farm where Miles learned to ride horses as a young boy. In 1927 the

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    Tangled Up in New Bob Dylan and Intertextuality Appropriation has always played a key role in Bob Dylan’s music. Critics and fans alike have found striking similarities between Dylan’s lyrics and the words of other writers. On his album “Love and Theft‚” a fan spotted many passages similar to lines from “Confessions of a Yakuza‚” a gangster novel written by Junichi Saga. Other fans have pointed out the numerous references to lines of dialogue from movies and dramas that appear throughout

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    Miles Davis [pic] Miles Davis | |  Home > Library > Miscellaneous > Who2 Biographies | | | | |View Poster | | | • Born: 26 May 1926 • Birthplace: Alton‚ Illinois • Died: 28 September 1991 • Best Known As: Composer/performer of Kind of Blue Name at birth:

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    “Only A Pawn In Their Game” - Dylan and The 60s Josh St.Louis 4944252 HIS 3150 December 5th‚ 2012 Instructor: Sean Graham This past September 11th marked the fiftieth-anniversary of the release of Bob Dylan’s 1962 eponymous album‚ Bob Dylan. Fittingly‚ Dylan marked the occasion with the release of his thirty-fifth studio album‚ Tempest‚ an album Rolling Stone Magazine recently gave five stars‚ calling it “one of his weirdest albums’‚ and adding

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    approaching‚ dream. In this perspective‚ Brown’s physical journey to forest can be interpreted into psychological door. Salem‚ the solemn‚ rational and moral city‚ represents our conscious‚ which is one of mental area. Brown stays at sunset and morning when he shows himself in Salem. We can obviously see and show under the sunlight‚ as our conscious can also do so. In contrast‚ in forest‚ he stays in darkness. The forest is ‘darkened’ and ‘concealed’‚ like unconscious. By journeying the forest‚ he can

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