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- 61: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald Author: DIANA CHOW Welcome to the roaring 1920's! The Jazz Age. A period within time which the passive behaviors, beliefs, and purity of the past generations, were tossed aside to create room for the changes America was about to experience ... of Paradise. Though rejected it later returns as a imitated nationwide sensation. When time and America began evolving, then was his work beginning to receive its time awaited praise. The Jazz Age had arrived! By this period Fitzgerald had already found his love and married the enchanting Zelda Syre. She was an accomplished writer, ballet dancer, and painter. Though every one ... Fitzgerald's story which became and instant hit. This Side of Paradise. And during America's decade of prosperity, excess, and abandon, he became noted as the spokesman for the Jazz Age. He continued to write, and he then achieved his strongest and greatest work which described the weaknesses and the ideals which America lost. The Great Gatsby. Now considered ...
- 62: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... the poem." (Burns 104). Since he did not feel that he was writing for publication, Ginsberg felt free to experiment. He replaced his normally short lines with the Kerouac and jazz influenced long line. He employed a cataloguing style similar to that used by Walt Whitman in "Song of Myself," and he broke the long lines into a triadic ladder structure ... children. In the poem Moloch becomes society and is named as the entity responsible for the madness and destruction showcased in Part I. Part II has been compared to a jazz piece in three movements: 1. "Hot saxaphonic expressions, reminiscent of the jazz lines of Charlie Parker and Lester Young. 2. "Short sqwawks or statements, not unlike those played by Miles Davis. 3. "Cool bluesey and lyrical feeling similar to the moody ...
- 63: The Life and Times of Peter Straub
- ... went on a scholarship to Milwaukee County Day School and was loved by all his English teachers. During this period of his life, he discovered many great writers and also jazz music. Straub said this about jazz; “Probably, the way I heard jazz, the impact it had on me, informed my notion of art and expression, of the possibilities within expression. It also taught me something valuable about passion. That passion is ...
- 64: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... the poem." (Burns 104). Since he did not feel that he was writing for publication, Ginsberg felt free to experiment. He replaced his normally short lines with the Kerouac and jazz influenced long line. He employed a cataloguing style similar to that used by Walt Whitman in "Song of Myself," and he broke the long lines into a triadic ladder structure ... children. In the poem Moloch becomes society and is named as the entity responsible for the madness and destruction showcased in Part I. Part II has been compared to a jazz piece in three movements: 1. "Hot saxaphonic expressions, reminiscent of the jazz lines of Charlie Parker and Lester Young. 2. "Short sqwawks or statements, not unlike those played by Miles Davis. 3. "Cool bluesey and lyrical feeling similar to the moody ...
- 65: 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 ... musicals, Gene Kelly, b. Eugene Curran Kelly, Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 23, 1912, turned choreography into a virile, athletic American art. Synthesizing ballet with the tattoo of tap, the rhythms of jazz, and a sense of fun and grace, he was at his best in The Pirate (1948), On the Town (1949), An American in Paris (1951), Singin' in the Rain ( ...
- 66: The Beatles
- ... s premises comprised a small group of cellars below a seven story warehouse which had originally been used as an air raid shelter during the war. Later, Alan Sytner, a jazz fan decided to open it up as a new jazz club. After a few years, he sold it to Ray McFall another jazz fan. The club was originally strictly jazz and no rock. Luckily for the Beatles, the times were changing and McFall quickly changed the policy the Beatles soon became regulars. ...
- 67: History Of The Counterculture
- ... an outlet for the teenagers of the 1960's to express themselves and voice their concerns about society. Rock n' Roll 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. (Groliers, 1-2)This kind of music brought to folk ... third motif went rippling through the baby-boom culture: adhesive love” (Gitlin,200). The freedom they found came with the help of drugs. Marijuana evolved from its “black and Hispanic, jazz-minded enclaves to the outlying zones of the white middle class young” (Gitlin 200). This new drug allowed a person to open their mind to new understandings and philosophies. ...
- 68: Duke Ellington
- Edward Kennedy Ellington, American jazz composer, orchestrator, bandleader, and pianist, is considered to be the greatest composer in the history of jazz music and one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. He composed over 2000 works and performed numerous concerts during his musical career. A compilation of some of his ... accompanies the brass instruments. Ellington often wrote evocative music, such as "Caravan" (1936), which he intended as a portrait of an exotic locale. The piece is a cross between Latin jazz and music that is Aladdin like. The brass instruments in the background are playing in ostinato form. This piece was written by Puerto Rican Juan Tizol who played the ...
- 69: Langston Hughes
- ... Italy and France, Russia and Spain. One of his favorite pastimes whether abroad or in Washington, D.C. or Harlem, New York was sitting in the clubs listening to blues, jazz and writing poetry. Through these experiences a new rhythm emerged in his writing, and a series of poems such as "The Weary Blues" were penned. He returned to Harlem, in ... the Harlem Renaissance. During this period, his work was frequently published and his writing flourished. In 1925 he moved to Washington, D.C., still spending more time in blues and jazz clubs. He said, "I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street...(these songs) had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going." At ... Blues (1926); The Negro Mother and other Dramatic Recitations (1931); The Dream Keeper (1932); Shakespeare In Harlem (1942); Fields of Wonder (1947); One Way Ticket (1947); The First Book of Jazz (1955); Tambourines To Glory (1958); and Selected Poems (1959); The Best of Simple (1961). He edited several anthologies in an attempt to popularize black authors and their works. Some ...
- 70: The Drums
- ... magazines regularly. Another good way to keep up with modern drumming, which I would consider best, would be to listen to all types of modern music such as Rock, Rap, Jazz and many more. TYPES OF DRUMS There are three basic types of drums used in the modern drumset these drums are called the bass drums, the tom drums and the ... used for certain types of music. The most common size bass drums used now are either 16" x 22" or 14" x 22". Smaller bass drums are often used by jazz drummers to get a more soft and mellow sound, for example 14" x 20" or 16" x 20" are a few of the sizes used by jazz drummers. Larger bass drums are often used by rock drummers to get a heavier sound they usually use 16" x 24" or 16 x 26" sized bass drums. The ...
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