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- 71: Phish
- ... locking himself in his room and trying to copy the sound of bands such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. When he moved to college, he started to move toward jazz and hardcore. Now, all they needed was a bass player. The three placed flyers all over campus and the first replay was Mike Gordon which joined the band soon after ... played on the radio, “Chalkdust Torture.” The album itself did not sell that well partly because of way they tried to demonstrate every facet of the band’s music. Bluegrass, jazz, Latin, mellow guitar instrumentals, short rock blast, composed epics, and extensive improvisational music all appeared next to one another and no one knew what to make of it. One of ... Page which is probably way most of it is piano. It starts off with a piano solo and then the drums, guitar, and bass come in to give it the jazz sound. Then there is a little guitar solo with the piano in the back and then they switch. Follow this, all the instruments but the drums stop and Fish ...
- 72: Music and The Global Perspective
- ... music (art music) and a number of “ popular” music styles derived largely from Western European ways of making music. These styles include pop, folk, country, and rock. Other styles, including jazz, blues, and various ethnic music, are the result of a blending of cultures and traditions. All these styles constitute an important part of music in American society, styles that constitute ... least accent and inflection), fashion, food, and lifestyles of their native cultures. In many cases, the merging of cultural traditions has formed new styles and modes of behavior. For example, jazz evolved in the early twentieth century. Music is vocal or instrumental sounds having melody, rhythm, or harmony. Also, music is sound that you want to hear as music, sound that ... music traditions, their great “ masterpieces,” their own high art. It can effectively be argued that characteristics of high art music can also be found in Western vernacular music, notably, some jazz, new age, and rock. Music exists in all nations and among all people has existed as far back in time as we know about people and their cultures. The ...
- 73: The Roaring Twenties: A Time of Great Advancement and Excitement
- ... begun! The men loosened their shirt collars, and the women took off their hats, it was time to boogie. It was time to swing. Swing music is a form of jazz, which was first made popular by the first great jazz soloist, the amazing Louis Armstrong. He played vividly dramatic cornet and trumpet solos with his Hot Five and Hot Seven from 1925-1928 and then with a series of big ... era, which lasted until 1945. Later on in 1932, Duke Ellington said “It don’t mean a thing (if it ain’t got that swing).” Louis Armstrong was among the jazz musicians who accompanied Ma Rainey and the rich-voiced Bessie Smith, the classic blues singers of the 1920s. Ella Fitzgerald was the popular favorite among later swing scat vocalists. ...
- 74: Langston Hughes
- ... The New Modern American and British Poetry. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939 Langston Hughes was one of the first black men to express the spirit of blues and jazz into words. An African American Hughes became a well known poet, novelist, journalist, and playwright. Because his father emigrated to Mexico and his mother was often away, Hughes was brought ... as The Crisis (NAACP) and Opportunity (National Urban League).1 As a poet, Hughes was the first person to combine the traditional poetry with black artistic forms, especially blues and jazz. As a leader in the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and thirties Hughes became the movements best known poet. He published two poetry collections, The Weary Blues (1926) and Fine ... for music and poetry were quite different, he thought he could somehow merge the two. “Hughes was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He borrowed extensively from blues and Jazz in his work, and in doing so, set the foundations for a new tradition of black literacy influences by Black music.”6 Langston Hughes employed the structures, rhythms, themes ...
- 75: Demystifying The A-Team Formula
- ... pypgb/ateam/ateam.htm: Nov. 4, 1997. 3 Piltz, Leah. "A-Team, 'Face'". http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/2779/face.htm: Nov. 3, 1997. 4. Pellegrini, Nicole. "On The Jazz". Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik. www.xs4all.nl/~jmm/a-team/otj/otj0101.txt: Nov. 8, 1997. 5. Pellegrini, N.N.("Sockii"). "The Details". www.seas.upenn.edu/~pellegri ... pellegri/AFAQ3.html#5: Nov. 3, 1997. 7 Pellegrini, N.N.("Sockii"). "The Details". www.seas.upenn.edu/~pellegri/AFAQ3.html#6: Nov. 3, 1997. 8 Pellegrini, Nicole. "On The Jazz". Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik. www.xs4all.nl/~jmm/a-team/otj/otj0101.txt: Nov. 8, 1997. WORKS CITED "Looney Tunes On TV!". http://www.megalink.net/~cooke/looney/tv.html. Pellegrini, Nicole. "On The Jazz". Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik. www.xs4all.nl/~jmm/a-team/otj/otj0101.txt. Pellegrini, N.N.("Sockii"). "Sockii's A-Team Homepage". www.seas.upenn.edu/~pellegri/ ...
- 76: Porgy and Bess
- ... the rhythms of black music throughout the prewar years, and he attended many gatherings of black musicians, poets, and authors during the Harlem renaissance. He first attempted to create a jazz opera about black life in the early 1920's. Entitled "Blue Monday Blues", prepared by Gershwin and lyricist Buddy Desylva. Unlike "Shuffle Along" this play had white performers in blackface ... great approval, and it was finally produced at the Met some 50 years after the first production. It is probably the only opera founded on 1920's and 30's jazz which has survived past the post- World War II period, when composers began to use jazz satirically. Unfortunately, Porgy and Bess inspired no copies. Had the art of the black musical been thriving, the Gershwin show would have encouraged other producers, writers, and composers to ...
- 77: 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 ...
- 78: 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 ...
- 79: Langston Hughes
- ... top of the mountain, free within ourselves(Jackson,2)”. Langston Hughes pastimes whether abroad 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 ... black writers. Langston wrote more than fifty books in his lifetime. Hughes steeped himself in the language, music, and feeling of the common people of Harlem. The spirituals, blues, and jazz was the base of Hughes poetic expressions. Also some of Hughes work contains fiction, drama, essay, and history. Many people knew Langston Hughes for the use of jazz and black folk rhythms in his poems. Langston Hughes skills was discovered when he left three of his poems beside the plate of an American poet Vachel Lindsay. He ...
- 80: Hawaiian Music
- ... a steady pace that is easily followed. Genres of their music, like I said before, have changed quite a bit over the last century. Their genres now include, blues and jazz and country and of course rock and pop. Although they have the same access as anyone else to listen to such artists as Brandy or Celine Dion, their versions of what we would consider to be normal genres have a decidedly island flavor. For instance, jazz in Hawaii sounds very different from jazz here on the mainland, and their pop bands always have hula dancers on stage performing with them. The texts in a songbook that I looked at were all in ...
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