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- 101: Guitar History
- ... music industry began and many different styles became popular, such as popular music from Broadway and ³Tin Pan Alley² in New York. Such styles as ³race² or ³blues², and early jazz later revived as ³Dixieland², and country music gained footholds in the music marketplace. In the 1920¹s the guitar began to emerge as the common denominator- the most versatile and ... instrument, best able to fill a role in an ensemble or accompany a solo performance. Players with different styles on every type of music appeared, among them Eddie Lang in jazz, Lonnie Johnson in blues and Jimmie Rodgers and Maybelle Carter in country. 6 The 1930¹s would be the most important decade in the history of the guitar, with more ...
- 102: Rock Music
- ... made. The first section of this essay is Rock n' Roll of the 1950's, when Rock n' Roll was born. It emerged from rhythm and blues, music similar to jazz played by blacks. This kind of music started to attract white teenagers. Disc jockey Alan Freed was the one who introduced this music and later gave it the name of ... an electric organ; they changed the name of Rock n' Roll to just Rock. During the 1960's many other styles of music arose from Rock, like, Motown, Soul music, Jazz-rock, Folk-rock and others. Folk-Rock, the most appreciated of this derivation, was first suggested by Bob Dylan. This kind of music brought to folk music a hard beat ...
- 103: Rap Vs Poetry
- ... to the troubled state of the world today. They rap about astronomy and the ancient faiths of Christianity and Islam. The beats they use also show the heavy influence that jazz has had on hip hop. They tend to not use hard, loud, mo tonous beats. Another group that shows its recognition for jazz is The Roots. Instead of a DJ who plays records, The Roots have a guitar player and a drummer. I can tell you from experience that having a drummer and ...
- 104: History Of The Guitar
- ... music industry began and many different styles became popular, such as popular music from Broadway and ³Tin Pan Alley² in New York. Such styles as ³race² or ³blues², and early jazz later revived as ³Dixieland², and country music gained footholds in the music marketplace. In the 1920¹s the guitar began to emerge as the common denominator- the most versatile and ... instrument, best able to fill a role in an ensemble or accompany a solo performance. Players with different styles on every type of music appeared, among them Eddie Lang in jazz, Lonnie Johnson in blues and Jimmie Rodgers and Maybelle Carter in country. 6 The 1930¹s would be the most important decade in the history of the guitar, with more ...
- 105: Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
- ... to the narrative tradition in the sound era. The Arrival of Sound The era of the talking film began in late 1927 with the enormous success of Warner Brothers' The Jazz Singer. The first totally sound film, Lights of New York, followed in 1928. Although experimentation with synchronizing sound and picture was as old as the cinema itself (Dickson, for example ... originally used the Vitaphone to make short musical films featuring both classical and popular performers and to record musical sound tracks for otherwise silent films (Don Juan, 1926). For The Jazz Singer, Warners added four synchronized musical sequences to the silent film. When Al JOLSON sang and then delivered several lines of dialogue, audiences were electrified. The silent film was dead ...
- 106: Charlie Parker At Storyville
- ... the day. He walks his bass to add a swinging feeling to the whole quintet. Bop music of the late 40's and early 50's was an evolution of Jazz that I truly love. Swing is good for dancing and a lot of fun to listen to in that situation yet nothing compares to the solos of the Bop era. The criteria I have shown proves that this set is bop. This same criteria is what makes bop the best era of jazz. The complexity, the tempo, the amazing skill shown by bop musicians, and the proliferation of improvised solos all join together to make amazing music.
- 107: Langston Hughes
- ... the Soviet Union, Haiti, Japan, Spain, Genoa, France, and other parts of Europe. Hughes was an author, anthologist, librettist, songwriter, columnist, translator, founder of theaters, and a poetical innovator in jazz technology. Hughes liked to write in many genres such as prose, comedy, drama, fiction, biographies, autobiographies, and TV and radio scripts. Langston Hughes was the father of the Harlem Renaissance ... was the author who during the Harlem Renaissance used much of the Black culture in his work. He began to use the Blues, Ballad form, dance rhythms, folk speech, and Jazz in his poetry. Hughes had success in many different fields of writing. His best drama, "Mulatto," a play, was performed on Broadway 373 times in 1935. In his best comedy ...
- 108: Rock Music
- ... made. The first section of this essay is Rock n' Roll of the 1950's, when Rock n' Roll was born. It emerged from rhythm and blues, music similar to jazz played by blacks. This kind of music started to attract white teenagers. Disc jockey Alan Freed was the one who introduced this music and later gave it the name of ... an electric organ; they changed the name of Rock n' Roll to just Rock. During the 1960's many other styles of music arose from Rock, like, Motown, Soul music, Jazz-rock, Folk-rock and others. Folk-Rock, the most appreciated of this derivation, was first suggested by Bob Dylan. This kind of music brought to folk music a hard beat ...
- 109: Rock Music
- ... The first section of this essay is Rock n' Roll of the 1950's, when Rock n' Roll was born. It emerged from rhythm and blues, a music similar to jazz played by blacks. This kind of music started to attract white teenagers. Disc jockey Alan Freed was the one who introduced this music and later gave it the name of ... sometimes an electric organ, changed the name of Rock n' Roll to just Rock. During the 1960's many other styles of music arose from Rock like, Motown, Soul music, Jazz-rock , Folk-rock and others. Folk-Rock the most appreciated of this derivations and was first suggested by Bob Dylan. This kind of music brought to folk music a hard ...
- 110: Behind the Doors
- ... according to Jerry Hopkins’ Rolling Stone article “Jim Morrison”. Ray encouraged Jim to form a band with him. They got Robby Krieger, a bottle – neck guitarist, and John Densmore, a jazz drummer, and Ray played the organ. Jim decided on the name The Doors after reading a book by William Blake called “The Doors of Perception.” In it there is a ... The Doors). It was around this time that their third album “Waiting for the Sun” was released. In January of 1969 Jim met Patricia Kennaley. She was interviewing him for Jazz and Pop magazine. They got married in an ancient Wiccian ceremony called handfasting. According to Jerry Hopkins’ article in Village Voices title “A Grave Situation”, Jim claimed later, “It just ...
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