...Shulman What Dreams May Come The different colors worn and portrayed in What Dreams May Come all have specific meanings. Red, blue, violet, and black make up the different moods and personalities of each character. The patterns that each color portrays, makes each character their unique and own self. The color of Annie, one of the main characters is red. Throughout the film, Annie was changing. She was going through many intense situations, which made her change. When Annie is herself, acting who she really is, her happy self, she is wearing red. For example, the first scene in the film was Annie on a boat, looking happy and content. She was in white, but the sail was red. When she is lying with Chris in the field she is wearing red. The viewer can feel their love and that they are happy. But once Annie’s children died, she never wears red again. On the other hand, the color blue represents Annie’s husband, Chris. Chris was happy a lot of the time. The viewer can recognize his content vibes while he was with Annie or the children. When Chris and Annie were lying in the field together, while Annie was wearing red, Chris was wearing blue. They were happy, in love, and peaceful. The purposes of them wearing “their colors” were to back up the fact that this is who they truly are. The third color that is portrayed in the film is violet. This color represents people, situations and other things that are going through transitions. Take the tragic moment of...
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...is a movie that depicts the discrimination and prejudices against African-Americans in the late 1960’s. The main character begins to write a book from the viewpoint of the black maids who work, in harsh and unjust terms, for wealthy, upper class white couples. During the events of the film, we see that the maids are responsible for the entire upbringing of the white couple’s child(ren), and works under conditions that border on slavery. Now that we have a little background on the film, we will discuss the promotional poster. The teaser poster for the film is set against a warm, golden background. The title of the film, along with a quote, appears in a soft purple, simple text. There is no shadow or shading of any sort on the text, and helps create a simple cover for views that catches attention subtly, but doesn’t scream for notice-much like the pace of the film. The quote, “Change begins with a whisper,” is written in the same font as the title, and ties into the scene depicted below the text. That scene is of four women-two black maids standing to the left, and two white, upper class women sitting on a bench to the right. The two maids are dressed in bland maid outfits of a pale blue shade. Their shoes are old and worn and appear to be covered in dust. The look of their outfits implies poverty and low social class. One of the maids seems to be whispering into the ear of the other, tying in with the quote at the top. The other maid has her head turned as if to listen...
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...is a movie that depicts the discrimination and prejudices against African-Americans in the late 1960’s. The main character begins to write a book from the viewpoint of the black maids who work, in harsh and unjust terms, for wealthy, upper class white couples. During the events of the film, we see that the maids are responsible for the entire upbringing of the white couple’s child(ren), and works under conditions that border on slavery. Now that we have a little background on the film, we will discuss the promotional poster. The teaser poster for the film is set against a warm, golden background. The title of the film, along with a quote, appears in a soft purple, simple text. There is no shadow or shading of any sort on the text, and helps create a simple cover for views that catches attention subtly, but doesn’t scream for notice-much like the pace of the film. The quote, “Change begins with a whisper,” is written in the same font as the title, and ties into the scene depicted below the text. That scene is of four women-two black maids standing to the left, and two white, upper class women sitting on a bench to the right. The two maids are dressed in bland maid outfits of a pale blue shade. Their shoes are old and worn and appear to be covered in dust. The look of their outfits implies poverty and low social class. One of the maids seems to be whispering into the ear of the other, tying in with the quote at the top. The other maid has her head turned as if to listen...
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...introduced “Night and Day” on stage, and his recording of the song was a #1 hit. He performed it again in the 1934 film version of the show, renamed The Gay Divorcee, and became his signature pieces. The construction of “Night and Day” is unusual for a hit song of 1930s. Most popular tunes then featured 32-bar choruses, divided into 8-bar section, unusually with an A AABA musical structure, the B section representing the bridge. The vocal verse is also unusual in that most of the melody consists of single note with inconclusive and unusual harmonies underneath. Repeated notes in the verse is an indication of Astaire’s obsessions Night and Day; You are the one; Only you, beneath the moon, and under the sun The melody is just the same, one note either played or held for two and one-half measures. All the repeated notes flatten the melody, which transfers the emphasis to the harmonies and Latin beat. Instrumentation: piano, bass, drums and guitar Performance style: Rhythm: The tune begins with a pedal (repeated) dominant with major seventh chord on flattened sixth of the key, which then resolves into dominant seventh in the next bar. Harmony: Jazz is genre of music with an emphasis on improvisation, and swung syncopated rhythms. It often utilizes elements of the blues, and often uses standard show tunes as improvisational vehicles. However it goes beyond the blues in both its melodies of its harmonies. Jazz has more swinging beat with a kind of old fashioned sound to it...
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...Bessie Smith, known as “Empress of the Blues”, was born on April 15 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was one of seven children to a part-time Baptist preacher and his wife. However, by the time Bessie was nine years old both of her parents were dead. Bessie and her brother Andrew were already singing on the streets of Chattanooga for spare change. Bessie’s older brother Clarence had joined a travelling vaudeville1 show as a comedian and dancer and in 1912 he arranged an audition for Bessie with the Moses Stokes Company. She joined as a dancer and working alongside established star Ma Rainey, rose to be a featured singer. By 1920 she had established herself as leading artist on the TOBA (Theatre Owners’ Booking Association) packing in crowds for every show. By 1921, having been married and widowed, Bessie moved to Philadelphia in an attempt to get a recording career underway, initially with little success. After various touring shows, Clarence Williams sought out Bessie to record together in New York and in 1923 the song Down Hearted Blues (with Clarence on piano) was recorded with great success, selling more than 80,000 copies in 1923. Between 1923 and 1933 Bessie recorded more than 150 for Columbia Records, making her one of the most prolific artists of her time. She is reported to have earned around $2,000 per week at the height of her career. Bessie’s recordings ranged from uproarious vaudeville songs to slow blues. She customarily refused to work with...
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...Blues vs Country music According to Etta James in an interview with American Chronicle: "The Blues and country are first cousins ... What I look for in a song is for the story to be for real. I like a blood and guts kind of thing. That's what you find in the lyrics of country music." Blues and country music both developed in the 19th century in the Southern United States. They share a similar history. For this reason, they share many of the same musical and lyrical characteristics. Read more: How to Compare Blues & Country Music | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_5888119_compare-blues-country-music.htInstructions 1. * 1 Learn the history behind blues and country music. They are both forms of American folk music influenced by earlier styles brought overseas. Blues music grew out of field hollers and chants sung by African slaves. Irish and Scottish balladeers borrowed the guitar and banjo of blues and thus created "country". According to Reebee Garofalo in "Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA", "Terms like country and blues are only used to separate the same kind of music made by blacks and whites ... designations like race and hillbilly intentionally separated artists along racial lines and conveyed the impression that their music came from mutually exclusive sources." Country is an offshoot of blues. They are essentially the same thing. In the PBS special, "Rhythm, Country and Blues," country is referred to as "white man's blues." * 2 Listen to...
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...Throughout the 1890s and early 1900s, ragtime or “rags,” was the new American music genre influenced by the blues. Ragtime music was extremely different than anything else that was being played at the time and it was not viewed as proper music, so it was played in saloons and bars. To play rags, a pianist had to be remarkably skilled because they have to be able to keep up with their own rhythm and play every piece of the song until the 1920s, when big bands came in. Scott Joplin, “the King of Ragtime,” created this new music form, which had blues in it, but it was separate from blues. Scott Joplin was born November 24, 1868 in northeastern Texas and by the 1870s his family moved Texarkana, Texas, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as a house cleaner and laundress (Trout). His mother washed clothes in order to pay for Joplin’s piano lessons, but when she...
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...Louis Armstrong was a trumpeter, bandleader, singer, soloist, film star, and comedian. He was also considered an influential artist in jazz history. Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born in a poor area named “The Battlefield”. (Biography) He had a difficult childhood because his father abandoned the family a little after Louis was born. His mother turned to prostitution and left him with his grandmother. In the fifth grade, he dropped out of school to star working. At the time, a Jewish family gave him a job collecting junk and delivering coal. They were good people and encouraged him to sing and invited him to their home for meals. In 1912 on New Year’s Eve, Armstrong shot a gun and was arrested and sent to the Colored...
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...Introduction Ray Charles is considered a musical genius in many different fields. He has a large success in pop, jazz, blues, country, and R&B. Charles is also known as an inventor of soul music. Background In the first golden age of rock and roll they only called one man The Genius, and that was none other than Ray Charles. Born in Albany, Georgia, throughout the depression, and blind by the age of seven, Ray Charles Robinson absolutely had the deck stacked against him from the earliest starting point. “Lots of folks shifted musical styles when their sales figures or their muses indicated it, but Brother Ray alone knew how to cross so many musical boundaries at once. Not even Elvis Presley at his peak could claim such a seamless blend of pop, country, gospel, and blues” (Robert Fontenot). Discussion Biography Ray Charles Robinson was conceived in Albany, Georgia, on September 23, 1930, Charles was brought up in Greenville, Florida, where he made the knowledge of a piano-playing neighbours. As a youngster, Charles apprenticed with him at his little store-cum-jukejoint while processing blues, boogie-woogie and big band swing records on his jukebox. At age six, he was affected by glaucoma, which inevitably left him blind by age of 7. Charles examined structure and beat a mixed bag of instruments, piano and saxophone primary around them, throughout nine years used at the St. Augustine School for the Deaf and the Blind. When he was 15 his mother passed away and he...
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...introduction and explanation of how the American pop music has been developing from 1990s to 2000s and why there is a trend like this. 1. Blues and Jazz Due to the immigration and population movements in history from 18th century to the peak time 1940s, millions of black man was moved or moved out of Africa to American to be cheap labours. During the movement, black music was brought into America and originated jazz and blue genres. 1.1 Blues Black slaves and their descendents created blues while they can adapt chasing and field shouters, turning on their passionate, because of which, blues has a free form as call-and-response vocal music, without the accompany of rhythm music. Led by Robert Johnson, Johnny Winter and many seniors, Bob Dylan is no doubt a representative. His works embodied folk, rock, Blues Retro and many factors. The narrative lyrics and sincere emotion made him popular till now. Moreover, in 1990s,Ben Harper's folk blues style,which actually brought people on the dance floor in small bars, was expressed successfully. He was regarded as a retro "member". As the form of blues getting more and more flexible and more and more popular blues being, from 1990s to 2000s, blues singers use harmonica, guitar, sonificate can and electric music instruments into blues. The film The Lion King also made a good use of blues as its background music. 1.2 Jazz Jazz has a lot of common on the...
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...riday, July 17, 2015 LIVING LARGE WITH LYLE LOVETT Lyle Lovett and his aptly named Large Band are coming to Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts and we can’t wait. He has long been acclaimed for his cleverly crafted lyrics, witty banter, soulful style and ability to perform country, blues, gospel and other American grown genres with subtle sophistication. One of the most distinctive and original singer/songwriters to emerge onto the 80’s music scene, his country roots didn’t quite fit his eclectic style. Classifying the type of music Lovett plays is nearly impossible. Though the genre is considered country, he incorporates jazz, blues and big band sound to tell his quirky stories through his music. Sam Hurwitt of Salon writes, “Lyle Lovett...
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...believed he could fit in within the rough western territory. Dude ranches were devised as tourist attractions to lure city slickers to the often romanticized West. The word was often used in mocking to describe people who were out of place in their environment. In the 20th century the meaning shifted from one of parody to a more causal meaning used to imply casual relationships between heterosexual males. It implied camaraderie and brotherhood without any intimacy. This form of meaning began with African Americans and later permeated other communities. In the 1960s it was very popular in surfing communities, then a decade later it was used merely to refer to a male. In the 1980s and 90s, dude permeated the entertainment business in such films as “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Wayne’s World,” and the highly popular children’s show “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” At this time dude became an exclamation to be used with awesome and whoa, along...
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...leading to a heightened need for civil rights and equality. This new music form allowed blacks and whites to work together in a professional setting and intermingle like they never had before, increasing white appreciation and acceptance for blacks. Without rock ‘n’ roll and the social benefits included, the civil rights movement may never have been as powerful as it was. The origins of rock ‘n’ roll had its very roots in the African-American culture. Rhythm and blues, jazz, and gospel music, once confined solely to black culture, now found their way into white society, as “race records” became popular, not just in the black community, but in the white community as well. These “race records” were, at first, aimed only at the African-American audience, and were distributed by door-to-door salesmen and newsboys for “lovers of music everywhere and those who desire to help in the advance of the Race.” Bessie Smith, a black singer in the 1920s, became so popular within the black community, that she was cast in an early sound film—one of the first to include black performers. Eventually, “race records” expanded to include comedy routines, recorded sermons, and spirituals. In the 1940s and 1950s, these records also began to become popular within the white community as record producers realized the appeal that the music could have. This new music had more than just a cultural effect, as it served to change society as well; it stood as a powerful alternative to the conformist values of the...
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...Lecture 1 July 4, 2012 • Popular Music in the United States: o Lies in the African-American Population o West African music was brought into America and was thrown into a mixing pot that the slave population count themselves as Americans. o Blues is the beginning of Jazz, Rock and R&B • Congo Square –Passage from book: History of Jazz o An eligible black man sits with a large cylinder drum using his fingers and edge of his hand he jams repeatedly on the drum head which is around 14 diameters and probably made from animal skin. ____________________ with rapid sharp strokes. A second drummer holding his instrument between his knees joins in, playing with the same ______ attack. A third black man seated on the ground _________ instrument the body of which is rashly fashioned from the calabash. Another calabash which has been made into a drum and a woman beats at it with two short sticks. One voice then another voice, then other voices join in a dance of scene contradictions __________ give and take ___________ one handed performance spontaneous yet on closer inspection ritualize and precise is a dance of massive proportions, a dense crowded _________ performed in circular groups perhaps five or six hundred individuals moving in time to the pulsations of the music some swaying gently and others aggressively stumping their feet. A number of women in the group begin chanting. This scene could be Africa, in fact it is 19th century in New Orleans scattered first handed...
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...Thesis: This monograph will discuss the origination of Soul Music, its founding fathers, how it was influenced throughout the decades, as well as statistics, research and demographics of it impact on people. To begin with, “soul music is defined as a fervent type of popular music developed in the late 1950s by black Americans as a secularized form of gospel music, with rhythm-and-blues influences, and distinctive for its earthy expressiveness, variously plaintive or raucous vocals, and often passionate romanticism or sensuality” (Kris, "Dictionary.com"). Soul music first takes root during the 1950s, in Memphis, Tennessee, and was originally preformed by African-Americans. The musical composition of soul consists of guitar, bass, piano, organ,...
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