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Rock Music
<view this essay>.... rhythm and blues, 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 Rock n' Roll. Record companies distributed records played by whites but composed by blacks. Whites were frustrated because there weren't any white artists, and they didn't want the blacks to be the stars until Bill Haley appeared with his "Rock Around the Clock". In this decade, Elvis Presley introduced a music that was sexual-suggestive, and outraged many adults of that time. In time, he changed the style of the music by adopting a country and western styl .....
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Silverchair: Neon Ballroom (epic)
<view this essay>.... up their mopey opening track with the words "lessons learned", it's hard to suppress a sigh at the overt lyrical references to Kurt Cobain's "Dumb". Then, again, maybe they're in on the joke. I mean, c'mon leading off an album as bad as this with a track called "Emotion Sickness!" Someone is pulling our collective legs here. Sure enough, the boys deliver on the promise of that title, creating a miserable mishmash of Nirvana in a soft mode, Zeppelin playing "Kashmir" on a bad drug day, even throwing in a little flatulent. Yes-ish prog-rock to boot, all of which staggers around a bit and then proceeds to fall flat on its sunburnt face.
Silverchair's leader Da .....
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The Conspiracy Behind The Beatles
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styles what they wore caught on too. The suit outfits that coordinated
with one another and polished shoes were soon to be seen as a trend.
Within the Beatles career though many conspiracies arouse. The most
remembered of all of them was the conspiracy on Paul McCartney's death.
In 1969 Russell Gibb, a Detroit radio Disc Jockey, announced that
Paul McCartney, a member of the Beatles, had died. He claimed he had
received a phone call about it and evidence could be found within their
albums. Both other radio stations and the media picked up on the rumor,
and it spread quickly. As the word spread, the story also got changed.
Two different storie .....
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A Brief History Of Ledd Zeppelin And Its Musical Impact
<view this essay>.... as well. The mainstream went from listening to songs like Bill Haley
and the Comet's "Rock Around The Clock," to The Beatles' frightening "Revolution
9."
While these two examples may seem completely different, they are not as
distant as one might think. Nearly all music from the '60s and '70s was bred
from its earlier ancestors. Music has been constantly evolving, and during the
two decades in question, it underwent a radical change like never before.
The New Yardbirds
In early 1968 the music group The Yardbirds was in shambles. Their last,
and half-put --together album "Little Games" was a total flop and the band had
to struggle to have the re .....
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Basquiat And Davis
<view this essay>.... and other members of the Eight. He studied with Robert Henri from 1910 to 1913, made covers and drawings for the social realist periodical The Masses, which was associated with the Ash-can School, and exhibited watercolors in the Armory Show, which made an overwhelming impact on him. After a visit to Paris in 1928 he introduced a new note into U.S. cubism, basing himself on its synthetic rather than its analytical phase. Using natural forms, particularly forms suggesting the characteristic environment of American life, he rearranged them into flat poster-like patterns with precise outlines and sharply contrasting colors.
He later went on to pure abstra .....
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Jerry Garcia And The Grateful Dead
<view this essay>.... in those hours, Garcia would later say,
that he developed his fondness for country-music forms-particularly the deft ,
blues-inflected mandolin playing and mournful, high-lonesome vocal style of
Bill Monroe, the principal founder of bluegrass. When Garcia was ten, his
mother, Ruth, brought him to live with her at a sailor's hotel and bar that she
ran near the city's waterfront. He spent much of his time there listening to
the drunks', fanciful stories; or sitting alone reading Disney and horror comics
and pouring through science-fiction novels.
When Garcia was fifteen, his older brother Tiff - who years earlier had
accidentally chopped off Jerry's right-ha .....
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The Beatles
<view this essay>.... was formed in the 1960, and broke up in 1970. It consisted of four
Liverpool-born musicians. They were John Winston Lennon, James Paul McCartney,
George Harrison, and Ringo Starr (real name Richard Starkey). Ringo Starr
replaced Pete Best as drummer. Pete Best was an original member of the group.
The Beatles created a unique and varied sound that fans continue to enjoy and
bands continue to model, even today. One of their greatest albums was the
creative Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. This particular album was
admired for it's harmony and lyrics, the added use of electronic music
techniques, and the addition of the Indian sitar sound. Though .....
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Pythagorean Philosophy And Its Influence On Musical Instrumentation And Composition
<view this essay>.... philosophers will call him the father of
philosophy. Many scientists will call him the father of science. To
musicians, nonetheless, Pythagoras is the father of music. According to
Johnston, it was a much told story that one day the young Pythagoras was
passing a blacksmith's shop and his ear was caught by the regular intervals
of sounds from the anvil. When he discovered that the hammers were of
different weights, it occured to him that the intervals might be related to
those weights. Pythagoras was correct. Pythagorean philosophy maintained
that all things are numbers. Based on the belief that numbers were the
building blocks of everything, Pythagora .....
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