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In eight pages the American musical form known as jazz and its development are examined. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...
In ten pages this paper discusses the jazz pioneers including James P. Johnson, W.C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington an...
comes in many variants: field hollers, levee camp hollers, prison work songs, street cries, and the like" (Gioia, 2005). It is rea...
In addition the school provides opportunities to engage in off-campus activities because the area of Southern Florida is such a ja...
they will not have to repeat those classes when they study at the Berklee later (Jazz popularizer feels upbeat, 2003). The systems...
more jazz musicians will typically improvise simultaneously (Machlis 413). For all intents and purposes, Alex Blakes biography fo...
In five pages this research paper examines jazz in terms of the influences of electronics dating back to fusion of the Sixties and...
the realm of art music during the course of his career, George Gershwin. While Stravinskys work shows the influence of jazz, it wa...
In ten pages this research paper examines how jazz and folk music profoundly influenced this Russian composer as he works clearly ...
In five pages Sonny Rollins' life and jazz music are examined in this overview. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....
a well. The reason that Steamers usually has no cover charge or just a minimal fee is because it habitually gives local students a...
In 6 pages this paper examines the influential jazz musician John Coltrane in a consideration of his Islam conversion and his ques...
to the advent of jazz, improvisation was an integral part of European music, as the improvisational skills of such composers as Ba...
time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...
Pioneering jazz great Dizzy Gillespie is the focus of this research paper consisting of five pages in which jazz elements and the ...
In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the relationship between black poetry and literature with jazz and blues music with...
years playing with the Miles Davis quintet and Davis was a tremendous influence for him (Murph 54). Herbie once observed that Dav...
In nine pages this paper discusses the influence of jazz in the US. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....
pull up a chair. De Pree correlates the skills of a jazz musician: improvisation, innovation, freedom, and inspiration, with wo...
This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Toni Morrison's book Jazz with Louis Armstrong's song Black and Blue....
not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...
anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...
the detrimental emotional and psychological effects that this type of music has on young people. However, besides examining the su...
Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...
incorporated into the traditional Spanish flamenco, which originated with the gypsies in the Andalucia region of southern Spain.5 ...
In a paper consisting of ten pages the influence of the legendary jazz performer Billie Holiday in terms of music and society are ...
result blurs the lines of what is real or not but the book makes it clear that for Mingus, at the moment of his telling it, it was...
The life and music of this legendary jazz artist are considered in five pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....
This research paper describes the relationship between blues and jazz within the context of the history of these genres. The write...
the element of chance, such as the chance imperfections that are seen in a finely produced piece of paper, such as one having a wa...