In an article, “Understanding Jazz Audiences: Listening and Learning at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival” Karen and Stephanie attempt to measure how Jazz audiences are influenced by a live performance at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival (EJBF) in 2007, and assess the role that music plays in their broader cultural and emotional lives. The authors use data gained through organizational surveys of fifteen performances to observe the audiences, venues and the experiences during the festival
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Morrison and Elvis Presley dawning the classic jacket. Elvis, in particular, famously wore an all leather costume, including the pants, in his 1968 comeback tour. International British boy band The Beatles made the style popular among the up-and-coming rock and roll fan base. The Beatles joined the leather jacket craze before their sophisticated mania days. Recently, in 2012, George Harrison leather jacket was sold for £110,450.
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Growing up in my home, music was something my family & I cherished. Not a day went by, we weren't singing, humming, or rapping to a tune. Out of a countless amount of genres, R&B happened to be my favorite. R&B music has always been a huge component in my life. As many may not know, R&B music has been one of my greatest influences throughout my entire life. This music has molded me into being the strong and assertive individual I am today. It also has helped me figure out the individual I’m striving
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Danger music, often thought of as a subgenre within the broader Fluxus umbrella, presents a greater, if not the pinnacle, display of violence observed within all music history. The composition of purely harmful scores creates a distinction between the somewhat less violent provoking scores seen between Fluxus artistry. Nyman also marks a distinct shift away from the central Fluxus ideologies, regarding danger music, as he claims, " More recent danger music involves more direct conflict with performers
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This world we live in is a crazy one.. A world that lives in a constant flux of eternal changes. In this whirlwind of change, we as human beings must learn to adapt, not just on a worldly plane but a deep sociological one as well. One of the harbingers of all this “eternal change” is of course music! Imagine what kind of world we would live in without the sweet melodies of unrestrained expression to aid in our evolutions, a world unbeknownst and unaware of the sheer power music has in creating lasting
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I attended a concert by a local cover band called The Backbeat at a local bar. The Backbeat is a local (North Carolina) cover band that focuses primarily on late 1960’s rock and roll covers. True to their word, at the performance I attended almost every cover they performed was a famous song which was released in the 1960s, mostly from the Beatles’ lineup. The venue that it was hosted at, the college bar He’s Not Here, and the demographic of the listeners gave the performance most of its character
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Def Leppard’s follow-up LP, “High ‘n’ Dry”, was an even bigger seller than “Getcha Rocks Off”, breaking the top ten. All together the group broadened their sound and stretching their heavy metal boundaries with the release of songs like “Bringin’ on the Heartbreak”. A few months after the follow-up LP was released, Pete Willis was replaced by Phil Collen because Willis had a severe drinking problem that affected his performance on stage. “Def Leppard was now a headline act after only two albums,
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While I previously thought of the 1980s as a corybantic era where big hair, bright clothes, and rock music existed, and little else occurred, I now understand that this decade was much more complex than that. While researching, I discovered that the 1980s was a decade composed of multiple issues and topics, many of which are still significant today. There has been a ripple effect throughout time and many of issues that were relevant in this decade we are still dealing with the repercussions of the
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As reported by Max Kutner a senior writer at Newsweek, Nakia Jones, a police officer in Cleveland, Ohio, was hastily awakened by her teenage son exploding into her bedroom on the verge of tears. “Did you see the shooting?”, he asked. “Mom not only am I afraid of being shot by another black male, do I also have to be afraid of somebody who wears the same uniform as you do?”. Two days prior, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 37 year old Alton Sterling was fatally shot numerous times by two law enforcement
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The Ransom Robberies of Flagstaff, Arizona Introduction (He Almost Got Away with It) Last week, a series of armed bank robberies occurred in the small town of Flagstaff, Arizona. The suspect robbed a series of banks located all across the town. The suspect committed these robberies by writing ransom notes at each bank and passing it to the teller in order to avoid a big scene. The suspect was caught during the 7th robbery in which the bank teller was able to notify police before the suspect could
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