...own music and dance revolution. For the first time, dancers were closer together, some were even touching, and the music was faster, more soulful, and louder than ever before. In spite of the horrors that the nation lived during this time of the Great War, the dancers took to the ground great movements in styles like the Shimmy, the Charleston, the Foxtrot, the Tango and the Waltz (study.com). The Shimmy is a kind of ragtime dance in which the whole body shakes or sways back and forth, and at the same time leaning back and forth to the beat of the music. Charleston, named for the town in South Carolina, involved turning...
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...Around the 1900s some American dancers started to rebel against the strict and confining style of Classical Ballet. Modern dance is very vivid, ever changing and full of expression. Dancer’s like Alvin Ailey helped upgrade modern dance as we now see it. Alvin Ailey was born January 5, 1931. He spent the first twelve years of his life in various Texas small towns with only his mother to provide for the family since his father abandoned them when Alvin was only six moths old. Ailey grew up in the stereotypical black, impoverished south, constantly surrounded by religion. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, his professional dance company, and his audiences. African American art, in any form, is the combination of a variety of influences, which Ailey viewed as American culture. African American dance itself is a combination of movement and cultural influences from West African culture, Afro-Caribbean culture, and Euro-American culture 1958: First Performance of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 1960: Alvin Ailey's Masterpiece Revelations Is Born 1962: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Goes On International Tour 1965: Judith Jamison's First Performance With Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 1966: Ailey Performs in Inaugural Arts Festival in Senegal 1971: Alvin Ailey Choreographs Cry 1972: Judith Jamison Receives Dance Magazine Award 1974: Ailey Leaps From the Stage to the Screen 1974: Ailey Performs at the Duke Ellington Festival ...
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...UB28965HMU37521 PROGRAM: BACHELOR IN MUSIC EDUCATION COURSE TITLE: JAZZ MUSIC TITLE OF ASSIGNMENT: ATLANTIC INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY HONOLULU, HAWAII TABLE OF CONTENT CCONTENT PAGE INTRODUCTION……………………………………3-5 JUSTIFICATION…………………………………………5 BODY……………………………………………….…….6-14 REFERENCES………………………………………. …..15-16 INTRODUCTION Musical language started changing throughout Europe by famous composers such as Stravinsky and Schoenberg, alone side a new style of music was developed in America called the jazz music, this new style of music that was developed by instrumentalist and singers, predominantly the black Americans who were performing this new style of music along streets, bawdy houses, dance halls and other southern cities. Jazz music can be defined according to according to oxford student dictionary defined jazz music as a style of music with a strong rhythm, originally of African American. Again, jazz music can be describe as a style of music rooted out of improvisation and features by syncopated rhythm, a constant beat pattern with a distinctive tone color and performance techniques. The term jazz became popular around 1915, though it started as early as 1900 but throughout the early period of jazz existence nothing was written down on paper or notated on jazz music due to the fact that jazz music was mostly dominated by improvisation....
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...roar with the centries. The way the Jazz Age got it's name was from the music. Start of the 1900's the "Jazz" type of music came out. People starting listening to the Jazz Music because it has a soft, swinging beat. Starting out into the music and then when everyone realized that is was cool they said that this time is called the "The Jazz Age is Born". In Paris, they banned dancing in public since of the war and it was the effect at the end of the 1918th centries but that wasnt't going to stop them from dancing. Many balls were held in Paris, because they loved dancing so much. During the pre-war era, many young americans were getting in trouble by their elders for the breaking the law such as, using slang, dancing low class dances, and loved dancing to the African American influences. Lots of the women in this time were getting but down since they were no longer using the corset, they were wearing much shorter skirts that showed their ankles, cutting their hair to a very short length with was very against what they did.Durring the Roaring 20's the most popular music would have been the beginning of the swing, or now as called the birth of Jazz. Jazz is a type of music of a American origin characterize by improvisation usually with a forceful rhythm or edge. Which in the early years when jazz was just getting started, people believed that it was the devils way in telling the public. The public dance halls, clubs, and tea rooms were opened in the cities. Most oddly black...
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...your own words, describe this development and its key characteristics. Reggaeton is influence of Jamaican reggae which was travelled to Puerto Rico and Panama, where descendants of Jamaican workers begun performing what came to be called reggae en Espanola. During the same time frame, through the circular travels of New York based Puerto Ricans, who had participated in development of hip hop from the beginning, where it was soon indigenized as rap en Espanola by artists like Rico C, with lyrics in Spanish, this music had enormous appeal in Puerto Rico, where Jamaican dance hall had already achieved wide spread popularity. Indeed DJ like Playoro and Nelson developed the sound further, they were so drawn to a Sabba ranks song called “Dem Bow”, with its minimalist dance hall beat punctuated by snare drum accents that this “riddim”, initially created by producer bobby digital became a defining characteristics of the reggaeton and around the mid 1990 the music that combined these elements coalesced and came to be known as Reggaoton. 2. Who Considered the “Queen of Reggaton” and why? What makes this particular person well suited to hold that tittle/distinction? Ivy Queen is considered the queen of Reggaton because she was one of the few women in a male dominated and often misogynistic environment who could compete as an equal. She had lots of hit singles, her collection of old and new music in 2005 was number one on the Latin charts. Her new diva like look makes Ivy Queen well...
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...Latin America music refers to music originating from Latin America, which includes the countries and territories of the Americas and the Caribbean south of the United States. It consists a wide variety of styles, including influential genres such as son, rumba, salsa, merengue, tango, samba and bossa nova. Its concert music is performed mainly in “concert setting”, such as recital hall, symphony hall, opera house or parlor. These concerts represent the African culture, tradition, and continent. There is a huge number of composers who have contributed to the Latin America music in all over the world, Astor Piazzolla was one of them. Piazzolla was born in 1921 in Argentina and passed away in 1992. He was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon...
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...of prewar days. Dancing became more informal - close of the nineteenth century in the unpleasant dance halls and whorehouses of the South and Midwest where the word Jazz commonly meant sexual intercourse. Southern blacks, delivered from slavery a few decades before, started playing European music Afro modifications. The first place of jazz has many origins: New Orleans, St. Louis, Memphis and Kansas City are just a few. But New Orleans was and still remains an important jazz center. The ethnic rainbow of people who went to the bars and whorehouses were a big part of the development of jazz. The city had been under Spanish French rule because of the Louisiana purchase. By 1900, it was a blend of Spanish, French, English, German, Italian, Slavic and countless blacks originally brought in as slaves The first jazz bands contained a "rhythm section" consisting of a string bass, drums, and a guitar or banjo, and a "melodic section" with one or two cornets, a trombone, a clarinet, and sometimes even a violin. Years later, jazz was taken over by large orchestras; A "society jazz contained fifteen or more musicians. Today, there is a renewed interest in the "big band" era, even though the music has very little to do with real jazz. Jazz is characterized by certain features. The first is a tendency to stress the weak beats of the bar (2nd and 4th) in contrast to traditional music which stressed the first and third beats. The second...
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...How African-American Culture Conceived Jazz Near the beginning of the twentieth century, Jazz was a new style of music being invented by African-American musicians who lived in New Orleans, Louisiana. The city of New Orleans during the beginning of the twentieth century was loaded with individuals of different ethnicities and backgrounds. Before the early twentieth century, New Orleans was colonized by the French and Spanish. When the French and Spanish colonized New Orleans, they brought with them their slaves from various regions of the African continent; mainly, the slaves came from West Africa. In the book The Story of Jazz Marshall W. Stearns states: …the various stages in the development of the slave trade had a decisive influence on what part of Africa the slaves came from... the majority of slaves came from the West coast of Africa…inter-tribal raids and dynastic wars in West Africa led to the selling of kings and priests into slavery, people who were specialists in their own tribal music and rituals (16). When the French sold the Louisiana Purchase to the United States, the slave trade existed until it was banned sometime in the early nineteenth century. However, even though the trade was banned, slavery in the United States existed until after the Civil War. Within the confines of slavery, a new tradition was made from a mix of African and American traditions. The mix of African and American traditions started when the slaves were brought...
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...tambourine then moved on to back up vocals and dancing, finally making his way to sharing lead vocals with his older brother Jermaine. The group was changed to The Jackson 5; the band toured the Midwest extensively from 1966 to 1968. They recorded several songs and started peaking to the top of the charts. Michael Jackson was quickly becoming known as the prodigy. After leaving Motown they signed with Epic Records and renamed themselves The Jacksons. In 1978 Michael played a lead role in the movie The Wiz. In 1979, Michael broke his nose; his rhinoplasty wasn’t a success and caused breathing problems that would affect his career. In 1980 he started winning multiple awards for all his work. Also in 1980 he secured the highest royalty rate in the music industry: 37 percent of wholesale album profit was made. Although Michael may have lived the life many people strive for their whole lives, he had his fair share of insecurity and problems too. These lead to drastic changes in his health and his appearance. Starting at the mid 1980’s it was clear that Michael’s appearance was changing severely. Not only was his skin...
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...Diamante Colon 06 December 2015 DNCE 111 01 Wells Final Paper Pina Bausch’s “Rite of Spring” Pina Bausch was German choreographer who was one of the greater influences in postwar European dance. Many of these pieces didn't look like dance works, in that there was little "dancing". Instead, the performers often dressed as for some formal event, to sentimental tunes, or enacted dream-like scenarios, which often involved sexual violence. Bausch's 1975, Rite of Spring, dancing to Stravinksy's music to its most primitive logic by covering the stage in thick dark earth soil and by choreographing on a huge scale. The piece is set in a school hall where the boys had spiky-haired and unison in suits and ties, their faces stuck on the girls in pastel satin evening gowns. Some 32 dancers confront each other in thudding convulsive groups, ranked across a sexual divide. Hopeful of connection, they stalk one another to a soundtrack of sappy 1930s songs. Their movements are purposeful, measured and spectral. A young woman has hysterics as the rest of the cast stare resentfully at the audience. As they unite in great wheeling circles then scatter into a collective frenzy of coupling Bausch makes it appear as though they are stimulated by some savage, biological imperative. As they run and fall, dirt smears their sweaty bodies. By the time the chosen maiden is led towards her sacrificial solo and she seems to be only thing standing against her tribe and their absolute terror of...
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...Chapter: one 1.1. Introduction: ARCHITECTURE OF PERFORMING ART EDUCATION: Performing art education centre works for cultural activities and performing art education both formally and informally for both children and adults, the planning of the centre needs to be done with all levels of people in all ages keeping in mind. The purpose of any performing art education school facilities is to create an environment which can provide the teaching and learning process and recreation appropriate for people in all ages. Performing art represents the culture and tradition of the country and nation, therefore the education centre also should represent the culture and the tradition of the country. Besides the classrooms, teachers and administrator’s areas, workshops, stores etc, the physical enclosure itself should also generate an environment favorable for performing art education, recreation and other interactions. The planning, design and construction of the community school should result in an environment which can fulfill the above mentioned purpose. Although the schools of performing art education represent the art and culture of a nation, in different countries the performing art education centers were designed with different concepts , design ideas and technologies to achieve a master piece of art in form and architecture, but in developing countries particularly in Asian subcontinent, the planning and design need should be different. To spread the performing art...
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...Formell, played an electric-accoustic guitar and also provided lead vocals; Gustavo Amarante, a Brazilian, played electric bass guitar; and Jesus "Chuito" Quintero, a Venezuelan, on percussion--"Chuito" not only played the congas, but the bongos as well. The instrumentation of congas, bongos, and guitars, derived from both Afro-Cuban and European music traditions suggested the music itself may be son and would also "creatively fuse equal amounts of white- and black-derived musical features" (Manuel 43). Professor Washburne repeatedly mentioned in class the importance of actual Cubans to classifying music as authentic, and although the supporting members of the group were not truly Cuban or even from the Caribbean, Formell's heritage as "truly Cuban" and as the bandleader gave the performance an authenticity that may not exist if Formell was Puerto Rican. Formell seemed to have a unique skin tone, suggesting that he would fall under the classification of "creole" which is defined by Stuart Hall as having the "contemporary meaning of 'racial mixing' or ... the inter-cohabition between the two 'races' " (Hall 29). The music of Formell y Son Radical seemed closely similar to the guajira or guajira-son genre, which Peter Manuel describes as "a spin-off of the son which ... fused a medium-tempo son rhythm with guitar-based backing" (Manuel 44). The band began with a song titled "Guantanamera,"...
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...Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935, to Vernon and Gladys Presley. Elvis had a twin brother, Jessie Garon Presley, who died at birth. Elvis was raised in a small two bedroom house in Tupelo, Mississippi. The towns people called Tupelo, which was located near the Appalachian Mountains, the Mississippi Hills. Elvis grew up in a very poor side of town and where he mingled with the black culture. This exposed him to rhythm and blues, gospel, bluegrass, jazz and pop. Elvis didn't dress like a typical white middle class young man. He dressed with a rebel edge which included leather jackets, open shirts, and upturned colors. He slicked his hair back and grew long side burns. Elvis was a mixture of the black and white cultures that he grew up with. Elvis began singing at an early age in church, at local assemblies, camp meetings and revivals. While in elementary school his teacher convinced him to participate in a talent contest at the Mississippi/Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. Elvis wore a cowboy suit, had to stand on a chair to reach the microphone, and he sang a Red Foley song, "Old Shep". Elvis won second place and a $5.00 prize. Shortly after this Elvis' uncle bought him a guitar and gave him lessons. The Presley's moved to Memphis when Elvis was thirteen. He graduated from L. C. Humes high school in 1953. Elvis went to work for Crown Electric Company as a truck driver. He was planning to get a job as an electric repairman and took evening classes towards that end. During...
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...Irish Dance: A Marvelous Dance Irish step dancing has existed since the 1700’s, over 300 years. Families in Ireland have passed down Irish step dance from generation to generation as a way of preserving their culture. While the meaning of the dance remains the same, the performance and showmanship has changed dramatically. From girls and boys with pale skin and natural hair to girls with fake tanned skin, huge curly wigs, and thousand dollar dresses and boys with fake tanned skin and outlandish outfits. Irish dance has become more of a spectacle—such as “Riverdance” and “Lord of the Dance.” Those dances are some of the most enjoyable and respected around the world. Over time this type of dance has taken on a life of its own and changed from traditional to modern. Despite the changes, however, this dance has clung to the meaning and history behind each intense movement keeping the tradition alive. Irish dance has such a strong response from those who are a part of the audience, teaching or dancing. It is so enthralling that in many ways it is sweeping the nations. Through schools where former dancers will teach the new comers and relay the traditions so they wont be lost in the past. This longing has guided the way for many dance schools throughout the world. The diversity of schools and teachers has lead to a more unique kind of dance. The different styles of the teachers and culture bleed through the movements and the school become products for that certain style of movement...
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...course of the arts of India, and consequently, the rest of Asia. Arts refer to paintings, architecture, literature, music, dance, languages and cinema. In early India, most of the arts were derived Vedic influences. After the birth of contemporary Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism arts flourished under the patronage of kings and emperors. The coming of Islam spawned a whole new era of Indian architecture and art. Finally the British brought their own Gothic and Roman influences and fused it with the Indian style. They have a culture infusion in their art. Contents [hide] 1 Architecture 2 Literature 3 Music 4 Dance 5 Sculpture 6 Painting 7 Cinema 8 Radio 9 Television 9.1 Major events 9.2 Professional events 9.3 Amateur events 10 References 11 External links Architecture[edit] Main article: Architecture of India This article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information. Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject's importance, use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance. (October 2009) Indian architecture is that vast tapestry of production of the Indian subcontinent that encompasses a multitude of expressions over space and time, transformed by the forces of history considered unique to the sub-continent, sometimes destroying, but most of the time absorbing. The result is an evolving range of architectural production that nonetheless...
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