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The Beat Generation
Number of Words: 1454 / Number of Pages: 6
... considered his best work.3” Burroughs is in fact though, “the only major beat figure not strongly influenced by Buddhist thought.4” Jack Kerouac, who had wrote the great novel, On The Road, contained great reference to jazz. It contained the idea of spontaneous prose which Kerouac thought of while listening to jazz. Spontaneous prose was “the style of being true to one’s beliefs and idealism’s”, and this reflected the beat’s movement and spontaniety.
Jazz was definitely an essential for the beats in . Jazz was a form of music created by African Americans. It was a mix of American and Afric ...
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Porgy And Bess
Number of Words: 1932 / Number of Pages: 8
... became a necessity. In the 30's this trend prevailed, musical
elements of Afro-American culture were showcased primarily in dramas
rather than in musicals.
In Hall Johnson's "Run, Little Chillun!", a folk drama about the
conflict between the Christian and African religious heritage in black life,
critics praised the marvelous choral music. While Johnson called his work a
drama, Time suggested that he had written an opera, something rarely
achieved or even considered by black artists working on Broadway.
Although the thought of an opera with a black cast and created by
black talent wa ...
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The Verve Pipe: The Freshman - Analysis
Number of Words: 387 / Number of Pages: 2
... view that you were indestructible. You could never die, I am
too young. We have everything worked out, everything planned. This was kind of
the story between this girl and guy. The girl was stubborn and no matter how
many people told her she was wrong in here was, she though she knew everything.
Nothing bad could ever happen to her. She kept doing what she was doing and she
died. The Boyfriend is weeping over her death but convinces himself there was
nothing he could have done. She knew everything and it was her choice, why
would she take anyone's advice ? After all she was the one to fall in ...
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Hear No Evil: Music Censorship
Number of Words: 2708 / Number of Pages: 10
... audience to take their stance.
One of the founding debates over censorship in music was the Parent Music Resource Center (PMRC) Congressional hearings on September 19, 1985. The PMRC is a Washington women’s group that informs parents about violent or obscene music. The group was founded in 1985 by Tipper Gore, along with three other women (Stolder 30). Mrs. Gore left the PMRC in 1993 (Gowen 20) and Barbara Wyatt currently holds the office of PMRC president (Stolder 30). The PMRC was the group responsible for the introduction of the record industry’s “Parental Advisory” stickers in 1990. These ...
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Changing Faces's All Day / All Night
Number of Words: 501 / Number of Pages: 2
... R. Kelly, produced most of the songs on this album as well as being featured in some of the songs. R. Kelly also produced most of the songs on their previous album, Stroke you up.
On All Day/ All Night the songs are mainly about reflections of the title itself. The first side of the album, all day, are songs about falling in love and are in a major scale with a moderate beat. It gives you the feeling of day time, love, happiness, joy, tranquility etc. The second side of the album, all night, is songs about breaking up and heartache. It gives you feelings and emotions associated with nighttime ...
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Paul McCartney: Six Feet Under?
Number of Words: 4401 / Number of Pages: 17
... maybe Paul did die in that
alleged accident.
In the late summer 1969, the Northern Illinois University campus
newspaper, Northern Star, obtained a list of clues from a student who wrote a
research paper on the hoax. (Saki) Russell Gibb, a disc jockey for the Detroit
radio station, WNKR, then got a copy of it from a friend of his, and on his
radio show, proceeded to read them and even make up his own on the spot. Within
a few days, Gibb and his coworkers were astonished to see that newspapers and
reporters took his on-air joke too seriously and spread the story more widely.
(Saki) More clues came ...
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Woodstock Music And Art Fair
Number of Words: 334 / Number of Pages: 2
... acts at the festival.
DRUGS
Drugs were a problem at the festival, nearly ninety percent of the
people there were smoking marijuana. There were no violence problems
though. Approximately one hundred percent of the 33 people arrested were
charged with drug-related charges.
FOOD
Food shortage was a problem since so many people showed up who the
festival organizers wree not prepared for. Only 60,000 people were
expected to attend, yet on the first day alone, 500,000 frankfurters and
hamburgers were consumed. Constant airlifts were being operated from the
site and outlying areas, bring ...
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The Beatles
Number of Words: 830 / Number of Pages: 4
... In March of 1961, the Beatles began to play at the club that would
later be nicknamed "The Home of the Beatles". The Cavern Club, which'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. This would be t ...
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Louis Armstrong
Number of Words: 827 / Number of Pages: 4
... and received his first music instruction in 1913 at
a children's home. By 1915 he was sitting in with local bands. "He came
north to Chicago to join King Oliver in 1922 and made his first records
with Oliver the following April". (www.chimesblues.com) "Though Chicago
would be his base for the next 12 years, he went to New York for the first
time in September 1924 to join Fletcher Henderson's band and record
extensively with various blues singers, including Bessie Smith, as well as
with Clarence Williams and Sidney Bechet". (Trumpeter's tale: The Story of
Young Louis Armstrong)
"In November 1925 he ...
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The Tupac Conspiracy
Number of Words: 1684 / Number of Pages: 7
... dies in his last video released under the name "Tupac". His new video "Toss It Up" from the new album was released under the name "Makaveli . second video to be released by the name Makaveli is "To Live and Die in L.A." But how could they shoot the second video when he is "dead". Do you really think the video was shot 4 months ago, back in August of '96? Think about it in. the video "Hail Mary" released under the name Makaveli, there is a gravestone that says Makaveli. But the gravestone is cracked and there is a hole right in front of it, inferring that Makaveli rose from the dead.
In interviews pri ...
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