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- 191: Death of the Superstars
- ... probably will find no less than 10 different albums from him. Today's kids and people supposedly in the know, like to put music into different categories. Rap, Alternative, Rock, Jazz, Classical. Hendrix crossed all those. I not being black wouldn't know for sure but, would his living have spawned more black rock musicians. Say that happened. Would it be ...
- 192: History of Rock and Roll
- ... came from the 50's with groups such as Dion and the Bellmonts, Chuck Berry, and the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley. It was influenced by swing and jazz. Rock and Roll was probably one of the most well known types of music because of the invention of the television just a few years earlier. With the invention of ...
- 193: Billie Holiday
- ... of providing safety, an education, and a moral base. Musically, Billie grew up listening to the blues, although it never really was her type of music. Billie loved listening to Jazz records as a child, early influences including Louis Armstrong. Eventually, Billie moved on to attempt a singing career. "Inspired by her love of singing, she talked the manager of a ...
- 194: Bluegrass Music
- ... acoustic string band instruments such as the fiddle, banjo, and mandolin, accompanied by guitar and string bass. The lead instruments improvise virtuoistic solo choruses, somewhat like a country version of jazz. The singing style, often characterized as the "high lonesome sound", is pitched quite high and can include four-part harmony with a high tenor harmony part above the melody line ...
- 195: How to Listen to Music, Not Just Hear it
- ... a salesman play some of your cd's that you brought with you. Make sure you listen to the same song per set of speakers. Also, bring different types; classical, jazz, blues, rap, and 80's; whatever. Forget what the salesman says. Just remember, your ears won't deceive you. Figure out what sounds the best to you, then slap your ...
- 196: Themes In The Great Gatsby
- ... prevalent themes, the main theme of The Great Gatsby is the ongoing search for the American Dream leading ultimately to the death of the American Dream. Taking place during the Jazz Age, the story begins with an introduction to Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby's narrator. He is portrayed as an honest, amiable young man that listens to everyone's problems ...
- 197: Dimitri Shostakovich
- ... Joseph Stalin inaugurated his First Five-Year Plan, an "iron hand fastened on Soviet culture," (Johnson) and in music a direct and popular style was demanded. Avant-garde music and jazz were banished, and for a while even Tchaikovsky was looked down upon. Shostakovich remained in good favor for a time, but it has been said that it was Stalin's ...
- 198: Great Gatsby
- ... of life.² The theme proclaimed in the quote reflects literature in the abundance that it is used in throughout the history of writing. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald, spokesman of the Jazz Age, illustrates the shallow emptiness, careless recklessness, and materialistic concerns of the rich in his novel The Great Gatsby. First and foremost of all are the issues of the materialistic ...
- 199: Helen Keller
- ... now have better care, training, and employment. "I am a beneficiary of her work. Because of her example, the world has given way a little," says David Jackson, a blind jazz singer (Shuur 2).
- 200: "The Beats Generation
- ... People can be beaten-up, or beaten-down. The connotation of the word is defeat, downfall, and resignation. The word ‘beat’ was primarily in use after World War II by jazz musicians and hustlers as a slang term for down and out, poor and exhausted. The word as used by a Times Square hustler named Herbert Huncke came to the attention ...
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