Lecture 1 July 4, 2012 • Popular Music in the United States: o Lies in the African-American Population o West African music was brought into America and was thrown into a mixing pot that the slave population count themselves as Americans. o Blues is the beginning of Jazz, Rock and R&B • Congo Square –Passage from book: History of Jazz o An eligible black man sits with a large cylinder drum using his fingers and edge of his hand he jams repeatedly on the drum head which is around 14
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Introduction There are tens of thousands of “how-to” books, but “The Ugly American” is unique in that it’s actually a “how-not-to” book. Published in 1958, the action takes place in the early 1950s at the height of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. Set primarily in the fictional Asian country of Sarkhan, the struggle between Russian Communists and American Foreign Service personnel plays out battle by battle through examples of military and political events
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American form of popular entertainment 11. ü How was Vaudeville different from the minstrel show? 12. ü What did Tin Pan Alley businessmen sell? Tin Pan Alley popular song form? a. Sheet music / 32 measure AABA 13. ü How did ragtime influence popular
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1. Introduction: We often use the word “Jazz” to describe an era, not just in music, but in culture itself, which began in the late 1910s and lasted for the whole of the ‘20s. This era wasn’t yet a modern one, but it was beyond old-times and carried itself as its own entity. The music that came from it was its own as well; the world had left behind typical baroque, romantic, and classical styles, but this was completely singular to any of those. It was a unique, clunky sound both classic and revolutionary
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orleans were black performs playing jazz and the blues to express there frustration and pain they were going through at the time. Eventually a brand new music came to pass. influenced by spirituals, blues, ragtime and it was played by african american's and white's. It comes from all different kinds of cultures. This music would become known as Jazz. The man who started a movement in Jazz "the big noise" was Buddy Bolden was who and astonishing trumpet player
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Foreshadowing is a literary element that many authors use to play cat and mouse with their readers. Moreover, foreshadowing is a technique that gives a reader an insight or subtle hint on what will occur in the future within the story. In regards of The Furnished Room, its author is no different and includes such elements in the first paragraph. With only a compact amount of phrasing the author prepares the reader for the ending in a very sly and cunning way. Beginning the story out with adjectives
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Honors Study Guide 1.) Analyze the political climate, issues, and stakeholders in the Cobo/Edwards mayoral election campaign of 1949. Relate this election to the specific outcomes in the city of Detroit over the next decade and detail what you see as the lasting effects today. Edwards backed by auto union, supposed to win because he was black and pro public housing. Cobo won the election, even though he was white and for private housing. Edwards took side with the Brewster housing projects, declaring
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1) Timbre Encompasses: The difference in sound quality that distinguishes one instrument from a different type of instrument. (e.g. a piano has a different timbre than a flute) & Jazz performers strive to produce variety of timbres on their instruments often through mutes. 2) Jazz soloists -‐clarinet, Alto and or tenor saxophone, trumpet and/or cornet, trombone
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Abstract William Bolcom is recognized as one of the America’s living composers. He is known for Twelve New Etude for piano which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. He not only composed lots of famous piano works, but also did bunch of voice, chamber ensembles, orchestra works. Besides he was as a professor of music at the University of Michigan, he has published variety of music, and appears regularly as a concert pianist and collaboration with his wife. Most of his works span the years 1963 to
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music he played that changed the mood of the family. 12. Do you think the Negro accomplished what he had hoped for from the visit? b) The title "Ragtime" is supposed to be the symbolic re¬presentation of the atmosphere which characterizes the scene of the novel. Do you feel that the rhythm and the intonation of E. Doctorow's prose imitate those of ragtime? (whose charac¬teristic features are syncopation, swing, high tension, fluctua¬tion between the regular rhythm of sharp harmonic accents and a lively
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