Jazz is an art form that is as American as baseball, yet as synonymous with the country that the music is normally used to describe it. Present from storefronts and coffee bars, all the way to movies, and pop culture, jazz is everywhere. Coming into being during the earlier decades of the 20th century Jazz is an art form that describes that changes in American society around that time, while also allowing minorities to gain the spotlight for the first time. An art form that praises skill, innovation
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A Raisin in the Sun is a book about a struggling African American family in the 1960s. Even though after all the trouble they have gone through they still achieved the American dream. This family lives in a small house and wanted a better life. The old man of the Family is Walter Lee he supports the family by working as a chauffeur. He is not happy with his low paying job. The reason for it is because his mom and her daughter both sleeps in the same room and travis his youngster sleeps on the couch
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When The Blues music started to become popular, this made many African-American women start to feel more comfortable with who they were. During this time period, many white middle class people were started to finally see African-Americans as equal, however, it was still up for debate to most. I find it interesting that the blues music genre is the only one that really stands up and talks about intersectionality. When I think about contemporary society, I can easily think of many songs in many different
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I've been fascinated by music ever since I could pick up an instrument. From the intricacy of a carefully crafted jazz piece, to the hard hitting double bass blasts in a metal song, I can find something to enjoy in almost every form of music. It takes so many different shapes, I can easily fit different songs and genres to accent whatever mood I may be in. Sometimes, I have had people laugh at me when I admit that a certain song or solo has given me shivers or brought me to tears. Other times, the
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John Philip Sousa who has known as the March King is the one who I applaud and praise. A famous conductor and composer during 1854-9132, Sousa led the American musical organization. Born in Washington D.C., and raised in a family with musical background. His father was a former trombonist in a Marine band. Sousa also, starts his musical career as a Marine musical trainee. After that, he works, as musicians in theater were Sousa, wrote some of his compositions and conducted. Because of his passion
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ension and release in Hank Mobley's playing have been too often ignored by critics and academics alike. Few attempted to study Mobley as it was much easier to pigeon hole his playing to that of a “Charlie Parker-influenced” hard bop player. Mobley's overall playing aesthetics were hard to be categorized into hard bop. This is supported by the fact that he once told journalist John Litweiler that he was “working on his own style” (Litweiler 1973). Most of the online publications or studies focused
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Life For this research paper, I have decided to write about Joe Williams, a famous American jazz singer in the late 1930s. Joe Williams was born in Cordele, Georgia on December 12, 1918. During the 1920s he lived in Chicago with his grandmother and mother, and was influenced by the many African-American musicians such as Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters and Louis Armstrong. His mother took him to see Louis Armstrong play the trumpet at the Vendome Theater when he was a young boy. His mother Anne, taught
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interests, both use a different style in their pieces, George using classical ballet, and Jerome using a jazz style. Our first dancer, George Balachine, real name Georgi Balanchivadze, was born In St.Petersburg
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theory is important in regards to the evolution of jazz in France because Rogers believed that no matter where jazz was performed its spirit could transform the soul of anyone. “Jazz is a revolt of the emotions against repression.” To sum up, jazz isn’t confined to one race or culture, jazz has always existed and it is the spirit of jazz that makes people happy, which is evident historically throughout mankind. Rogers expresses this opinion: (Jazz) is in the Indian war-dance, the Highland fling, the
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However taking an array of shapes and experiencing numerous variations over the years, the blues shaped the foundation of rhythm and blues, jazz, and the rock-and-roll music. Africans, after been torn from their skin, suffering a cruel journey from their West African homes to the South of America on slave ships and enforced into a submissive mode of life, reserved a steadiness with their stance
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