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- 51: 20s And 30s
- ... the 1920s, pop culture thrived. Movies were extremely popular. Several studios in Hollywood dominated them. In 1927, the first ¡§talkie¡¨ came out. Radio also became a large form of entertainment. Jazz developed as a new form of music. Louis Armstrong, a trumpeter from New Orleans among others, led Jazz. . The Harlem Renaissance gained recognition. Led by Langston Hughes, it produced great accomplishments in poetry and jazz. Overall, culture of the 1920s reflected the good economic time and showed a noticeable separation between the classes. Foreign policy of the 1920s was manifested by isolationism in reaction ...
- 52: Duke Ellington 2
- ... when Duke began experimenting and reworking his earlier, successful titles, and began to reconstruct them into longer forms, to accentuate his players strengths. Gone was the chugging sound of early jazz bands, replaced by a panorama of musical textures bound together by a subtler but no less incisive pulse (Holmes). During this period of his career, Duke would have the extreme fortune of working and learning from musicians that would initialize their career by playing in Duke s orchestra, and eventully gain historic jazz notoriety from their times with Duke (Holmes). Such players as Jimmy Blanton, the doomed young virtouoso of the stringed bass , and Ben Webster, adding to the sax section that already ... and mid-fifties, Duke Ellington experienced a sharp decline in his status as the grandmaster of the music world. With newer, more popular forms of music coming into style, the jazz and swing world that once dominated didn t seem as potent as it had been just a decade earlier. Duke noted this change, and changed with the times, yet ...
- 53: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The American Dream Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, the spokesman for the Jazz Age, ruled America s decade of prosperity and excess, which began soon after World War 1 and ended around the time of the stock market crash of 1929. The novels ... critics note, when Fitzgerald died, a good many of the obituaries showed a curious note of self righteousness (Benet 192). These obituaries did not review his work but rather the Jazz Age and that it was closed (192). This false assumption is due to his youthful success at one kind of thing, critics assumed that because he died in his forties ... himself in a decade in which unrestrained materialism set the tone of society, particularly in the large cities of the East. Even so, Fitzgerald saw through the glitter of the Jazz Age to the moral emptiness and hypocrisy beneath--much like Nick--and part of him longed for the moral center absent in his era (Brooks 35). In many ways, ...
- 54: Rap Music; It’s Impact On Society Since It’s Birth.
- ... from outside of the R&B and rock mainstream. The Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron, and Jayne Cortez set highly politicized tales of African American and urban life against percussive jazz tracks in the early '70s. In reggae, the use of DJs or "toasters," to rap over basic instrumental backing tracks when they took their mobile sounds systems to dances became ... cheerful vibe inspired a mini-school of "Afrocentric" acts most notably the Jungle Brothers and A Tribe Called Quest. Arrested Development, Digable Planets, and Digital Underground also pursued playful, heavily jazz- and funk-oriented paths to immense success and high critical praise. The work of rap is a highly macho (some would say sexist) environment, but some female performers arose to ... and there are more multiplatinum rap/hip-hip acts than you can count. Shinehead, Shabba Ranks, and less heralded performers like Sister Carol have fused reggae and rap. And the jazz and rap worlds are being brought closer together than ever through the efforts of “Gang Starr and their lead Guru, US3, and the landmark Stolen Moments: Red, Hot + Cool ...
- 55: American Prohibition in the 1920s
- ... great social change. From the world of fashion to the world to politics, forces clashed to produce the most explosive decade of the century. In music, the three sounds were jazz, jazz, and jazz. The Jazz Age came about with artist like Bessie Smith and Duke Ellington. Youth ruled everything. From the young styles of dress to the latest celebrities. If it was ...
- 56: Character Analysis Of Jordan B
- ... attitude of many of the people of her time, but also having the characteristics of modern-day women. This classic novel was written on the glitz and glamour of the Jazz Age, on the wealth and greed of the people during the Jazz Age, and also on the American dream and the corruption of it. Jordan Baker is, first of all, depicted as having an arrogant attitude. This side of Miss Baker is ... of herself as having much more grace and dignity than the people of the West Egg and also as being superior to them. The recklessness of many people during the Jazz Age is also portrayed through Jordan Baker. She is often lazy, dishonest, and blunt. Tom Buchanan remarked to Jordan at times how he wondered how she got anything done ( ...
- 57: Dizzy Gillespie, His Life.
- ... to fight off a lot of jealous boyfriends.Because of this,he ALWAYS carried a knife with him.This habit has lead to one of the most infamous stories in jazz history. One night,Dizzy was playing with the bannd and was taking a solo.During the solo,the drummer had lost the beat.Dizzy stopped,and held his nose which ... period of mourning in his life.It was a long time for him to get back together and continue with his life.It soon became a sort of depression for jazz musicians,because rock music was becoming very popular.Many young musicians abanodned jazz to follow the crowd.But too many people were getting hurt at rock concerts for many parents to consider it for thier kids.Although jazz was losing popularity,Dizzy ...
- 58: Langston Hughes - Poetry Analy
- ... America. In doing so, he wrote about many issues critical to his time period, including The Renaissance, The Depression, World War II, the civil rights movement, the Black Power movement, Jazz, Blues, and Spirituality. Just as Hughes absorbed America, America absorbed the black poet in just about the only way its mindset allowed it to: by absorbing a black writer with ... audience. Hughes’ great appreciation for the black urban music style is obvious throughout the various rhythms, patterns, and unpredictable improvisations that mirror the chaotic and pulsating tempo of city life. Jazz and black oral influences, as well as social dichotomy are pervasive elements throughout Hughes’ poetry. Like nightclub entertainers, Hughes used the progression of Afro-American music (jazz, ragtime, swing, blues, and be-bop) in order to show the growth and change of a community in conflict, as is shown in “Subway Rush Hour.” This poem, brimming ...
- 59: Count Basie
- Count Basie Count Basie, an American jazz pianist and bandleader, lived from 1904 to 1984. Basie was a leading musician of the swing era (1930s and early 1940s). Basie led one of the first jazz big bands, which featured a number of outstanding soloists and arrangers. The Basie band was famous for its rhythm section, composed of guitarist Freddie Green, bass player Walter Page, drummer Jo Jones, and pianist Basie. Together, the foursome produced a forward-moving rhythmic drive, or “swing,” that influenced the sound of jazz. Basie’s rhythm section inspired other rhythm members to play with more flexibility and more responsiveness to the horn players. Some of the Basie band pieces, such as “One ...
- 60: The Beat Poets and Movement
- ... Poets and Movement Author: James Deree The "Beat Movement" in modern literature has become an important period in the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such as jazz, art, literature, philosophy and religion, the beat writers created a new and prophetic vision of modern life and changed the way a generation of people sees the world. That generation ... individual talent. (www.rohan.sdsu.edu)" One of the most important contributions to contemporary verse was to take poetry out of the classrooms and into non-academic setting-coffee houses, jazz clubs, large public auditoriums and even athletic stadiums. Poetry is more popular and more read than anytime in history, not only spoken poetry but also sung poetry of a high ... sixties/index.html www.rohan.sdsu.eduThe "Beat Movement" in modern literature has become an important period in the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such as jazz, art, literature, philosophy and religion, the beat writers created a new and prophetic vision of modern life and changed the way a generation of people sees the world. That ...
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