Summary A summary is a clear concise orderly retelling of the contents of a passage or a text and is ordinarily about ⅓ or ¼ as long as the original. The student who is in the habit of searching for the main points, understanding them, learning them, and reviewing them is educating himself. The ability to get at the essence of a matter is very important. The first and the most important step in making a summary is reading the passage thoroughly. After it write out clearly in your own words the
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importantly real portraits of life. The majority of today’s country music, the country that is played on mainstream radio, has lost its serious feel and replaced it with a more laid back sound which at times makes it hard to hear the difference between a rock song and a country song and it has left behind authenticity for its Nashville sound and pursuit of money and popular appeal. Another genre of music is hip-hop. In the past Hip Hop lyrics focused on political and
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Rocker by Ramones Song Analysis Part I Artist Name: Ramones Song Title: Sheena is a Punk Rocker Composer Name: Joey Ramone, Thomas Cummings, Erdelyi, john Colvin, Jeffrey, and Douglas Album Title: Rocket To Russia Genre: Punk and Surf Rock Record Label: Sire Year of Release: August 1977 Personnel and Instrumentation: Joey Ramone- vocals Johnny Ramone- lead Guitarist Dee Dee Ramone- Bassist and Vocalist Marky Ramone- Chris Hillman – electric bass Michael Clarke – drums Part
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Artist Profile: Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix is a legendary guitarist who played the psychedelic rock style of music, recognized as the greatest musician ever in rock. Hendrix recorded and performed his music during the 1960’s, mainly the late 60’s. Jimi is known for his songs purple haze, voodoo child, and little wing. Jimi Hendrix played music in a time where drugs came on the scene in the U.S in full force and his music was performed during the counterculture movement, rebel and hippie time. Hendrix
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Out of all the readings, Fiske is perhaps the most pedagogical, but I really like the way that he distills popular culture down to something ultimately created by the people. He also argues that people can be redefined simply as a shifting set of social allegiances, and the aggregation of people converging together is more or less culture, but in a very fluid and uncontainable way. I think that these statements really reflect back upon the Chinese government’s failures during the revolutionary and
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disbelief, but a familiar, uneasy feeling did come over me. I have a strong affinity toward many different forms of rock music, installed into me by my parents and the Beatles at an early age. And soon after I began to learn about the history of the music I loved, I learned how it all came from the African American community, and soon after that, I learned why almost all of the rock musicians I had ever heard of were all white, despite knowing where and from whom it had actually originated from. It’s
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3 Overview: Crossovers and Covers Everything we have really discussed so far has taken place early 1900s, especially 1920s to the 1940s. (excepts for a few listening examples) Pop, Country Western, and Rhythm and Blues, the 3 genres that formed rock, actually coexisted in the early 50s. 1954-1956 was when things started to combine. The book says the 3 genres were “ruined.” Actually, the main 3 genres were not in ruins, many things in this chapter start to become opinion. The method for the
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It is true that a rich variety of musical styles can be found around the world. Music is a vital part of all human cultures for a range of reasons, and I would argue that traditional music is more important than modern, international music. Music is something that accompanies all of us throughout our lives. As children, we are taught songs by our parents and teachers as a means of learning language, or simply as a form of enjoyment. Children delight in singing with others, and it would appear that
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about 30,000 years ago, and writing about 5000 years ago. Rock Art is a general term for all forms of humanly fashioned marks on lithic surfaces. The term is a general category that includes at least two distinctive types of art known as petroglyphs and pictographs. Petroglyphs verses Pictographs Petroglyphs This type of rock art is the formation of images usually found from the Neolithic period, by people who incised or carved the rock surface. Often, these images were important forms of pre-symbol
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She would often eat dinner with her family, then excuse herself to go to the bathroom, only to purge what she had just eaten. Demi guest starred in show ,“Prison Break,” A few months later, she was cast as Mitchie Torres in the Disney movie “Camp Rock,” opposite the Jonas Brothers.After the movie premiered, Demi’s career skyrocketed. She was thrust into stardom and became a role model for many young children around the world.She released her debut album “Don’t Forget”. At this time, her self-harm
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