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Rap And Rock ‘n’ Roll
<view this essay>.... still an issue but racism today is slowly losing its power.
One good example of this is . Rap is a new version of rock ‘n’ roll. Black artists created . Rock ‘n’ roll never reached us through black artist, even though they were the ones who created the music. Racism was a big issue at that time, especially with black and white. They were like worst enemies with each other. Rock ‘n’ roll was very popular among many people but not many of them knew that black artists created it. In the past, whites never accepted music from black artists. Through whites was the only way to introduce new music made by the black artists. Here is a quote about how new music created .....
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REM's Losing My Religion: An Analsysis
<view this essay>.... of religion and the song. The first of these concepts is secularization which occurs mostly in modern industrial based societies. It is defined as a process in which religious beliefs and practices lose importance.(Marshall,1994: pg.468) This concept is of great significance to the essay because we live in a secular society where people are becoming less and less religious. Another important concept is alienation, often when one loses his/her religion he/she becomes isolated or alienated from their religious community or familysimply for not following the religious values set upon him/her. Coincedently values is the next concept to be explored in t .....
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Music Before It Was Recorded
<view this essay>.... music was first recognized as Gregorian chant, wrote after the great Pope Gregory. It signified the religious aspect of the early to middle ages. Chants were performed as a ritual of praying and were very popular in these times.
An organum was the earliest sacred music performed in churches and many other religious stages. It could be sung in polyphonic, monophonic, or homophonic. Homophonic consists of a singer and accompaniment. Polyphonic has many contributing factors, singers, instruments, and back up singers.
Pallastrena composed many sacred masses of the Renaissance. A mass is a religious gathering of performer that sings praise to the heavens. A .....
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Music And The Civil War
<view this essay>.... as fundraisers. On
February 17th, 1860, Professor Turner and Mr. Alby, of the Staunton Musical
Association, presented "Splendid vocal and instrumental entertainment,"
during which "the large audience in attendance were highly gratified with
the entertainment."1 The popularity of the events is further indicated
through the paper's assurances that the public "will be ever ready to favor
the performers with the presence when called upon."1
Other social events in Augusta County that were widely popular were
the "fine concerts by Turner's Silver Concert Band."2 The newspaper reports
that the popularity of "these concerts have always heretofore drawn crowded .....
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Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements And Effect On Rock And Roll
<view this essay>.... measures of tonic chords followed by two measures of sub-
dominate chords, two more measures of tonic chords, one measure of dominate
chords, one measure of sub dominate chords, and finally two measures of tonic
chords.
Blues performers would travel around the south singing about their loss of
love and family, and the pains they were forced to endure. The music became
popular because nearly every one who heard it could identify with its message.
This type of Blues later became known as country blues because it was rooted in
rural areas. The Blues became more main stream and popular in the 1920's
because of the recording industry coming into existence. .....
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Jazz Age
<view this essay>.... of any chord.
The twenties were a crucial period in the history of music. Revolutions, whether in arts or matter of state, create a new world only by sacrificing the old. Jazz had been centered in three or four major cities for a good part of the twenties. By the late twenties, improvisation had expanded to the extent of improvisation we ordinarily expect from jazz today. It was the roaring twenties that a group of new tonalities entered the mainstream, fixing the sound and the forms of our popular music for the next thirty years. Louie Armstrong closed the book on the dynastic tradition in New Orleans jazz.
The first true virtuoso soloist of jazz, .....
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Jimi Hendrix: A Reflection Of A Man Through His Music
<view this essay>.... enlisted in the 101st Airborne Division. After sustaining a back injury during a jump, he received a medical discharge. After his army career came to an abrupt end, he decided to go into the music field. By this time he had become an accomplished guitarist, and was soon to become known as the greatest guitarist ever. Unfortunately, on September 18, 1970 he was found dead in his room from a drug overdose. He was only twenty seven years old. His music has not been forgotten, as it is still popular today. If his addiction had not overcome him, he could still be revolutionizing the style of rock today
On November 27, 1942, Jimi Hendrix was born as John Allen Hen .....
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Nirvana
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are Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl. They were very successful in music. They
played alternative music.
Their first album was Bleach. It was releases on June 1989. It was a
big hit. From the success of the album the went on tour in England. Then the
released another album called Nevermind. It was released in 1991. The album
just went platinum. For the album they went on tour to Europe.
Nevermind album hits the number 1 charts for the second time. Then one
day Kurt Cobain meets a girl in another band called Hole. Her name is Courtney
Love. The ended up getting married in Hawaii in February 24, 1992. Then in
August 18, 1992 they have a ki .....
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