Was she a strong or weak day master? Billie Holiday was born on a戊 Wu earth day in the辰 Dragon month. This meant that she was born during the spring month when the wood element was strong. Her戊 Wu earth day master was considered to be weak in spring because the wood controlled the earth. Billie Holiday 7-4-1915 时 Hour 日 Day 月 Month 年 Year 癸 Gui Water 戊 Wu Earth 庚 Geng Metal 乙 Yi Wood 丑 Chou Ox 辰 Chen Dragon 辰 Chen Dragon 卯 Mao Rabbit 已 癸 辛 Ji Gui Xin
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who disapproved of “Harlem Music.” Two of the most famous black clubs in Harlem were the Cotton Club and Renaissance Casino and Ballroom. The Cotton Club was a place of great entertainment, featuring three stage shows nightly with anyone from Billie Holiday to Cab Calloway, all the way to Duke Ellington. The club was originally owned by a black icon, then sold to Jack Johnson, a famous black heavyweight champion. He later sold the club to Owney Madden- a mobster of Harlem. A major part of its’ popularity
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AABA form→ leaves dance music to art music • “Back, Brown, and Beige Pt. IV- Come Sunday” • Mahalia Jackson- vocals • Lysics invokes the will of God • She expresses the role of Christianity in black’s individualization • The Singers- 50’s o Billie Holiday-
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We shall overcome The music behind the Civil Rights Movement We shall overcome The music behind the Civil Rights Movement Jennifer Christopher Christopher.jenniferj@gmail.com HUMN 303 Course Project December 14, 2014 Jennifer Christopher Christopher.jenniferj@gmail.com HUMN 303 Course Project December 14, 2014 There is no other social movement in the entire history of the United States that is more poignant and significant than the civil rights movement – not even the Boston Tea Party
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IWT Task 1 (0813) This paper will analyze, critique, and help us to understand the music of the Harlem Renaissance and the Pop Art periods. The social conditions that influenced the art and the characteristics of the artists’ style were in many ways similar; however, with advancing technology, they had differing struggles to overcome. The Harlem Renaissance was sparked by the Great Migration from 1919 – 1926 in which African Americans began moving to northern cities to find employment and a
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Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1918, in Newport News, Virginia, but spent her formative years in Yonkers, New York, and received her musical education in its public schools. When only 16, she received her first big break at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, when she won an amateur night contest and impressed saxophonistbandleader Benny Carter. He recommended her to drummer-bandleader Chick Webb, who hired her in 1935. She soon became a recording star
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where Jim Crow laws were in effect and racial segregation was required in public facilities. On December 8, 1957, Young appeared with Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, and Gerry Mulligan in the CBS television special The Sound of Jazz, performing Holiday's tunes "Lady Sings The Blues" and "Fine and Mellow". It was a reunion with Holiday, with whom he had lost contact for years. She was also in decline at the
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Huddie “Leadbelly” – guitar—A 41. Kid Ory- trombone—A 42. Bessie Smith- singer – A 43. Sarah Vaughan- voice—B 44. Ella- Vocalist—B 45. Benny Goodman- clarinet—B 46. Art Blakely—drums—C 47. Woody Herman- clarinet—B or C 48. Billie Holiday- singer – B 49. Charles Mingus- base composer—C 50. Eric Dolphy—base
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Literary devices is about words or sentence that author use when they trying to say something in other way, sometimes it sounds sarcastic, but it’s really important part of the line that they bring out for the whole thing. Those lines sometimes got us carried away and hooked us up till we read or listen to what they were trying to prove. On this essay, I’ll talk about the 3 literary devices I used on my project or presentation that I have about the song “Hurt Me Tomorrow” by K’naan, and explain how
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Topic: Harlem’s Glory I. During the 1920s, many African Americans were forming strong communities; their art culture began to flourish. II. African Americans had started to become more of art then just a color of their skin. When the Harlem Renaissance began there were African American artist such as Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Toomer they had different and unique forms of literature and subjects. a. The Big Apple i. During this time
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