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James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man and Identity

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

Critical Thinking, Elementary Grades, and Music Education

the research linking music instruction with developing higher-order reasoning skills is still controversial. Therefore, there is a...

Political Culture and Music of Haiti

shores of the US. It was 1974 and the US government was still allowing Haitians to freely enter the country as immigrants at that ...

A Letter Evaluating the Work of Beethoven

the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence (Machlis, 1970, p....

Social Problems of Child Prodigies

the Tonight Show audience with a blazing solo (Jerome, Cheakakos and Horsburgh 131). At ten years old, Jacob signed a contract wit...

Critical Thinking and Music Study Proposal

quite extensive, as the study involves music instruction. The teacher should be thoroughly cognizant of the basics of music, that ...

Adolescents and the Negative Effects of Music Lyrics

correlation between risky adolescent behavior and a preference for heavy metal rock music (Sexuality 191). Pediatricians were on...

The United States of the 1920s

nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...

A Four Cities' Analysis

spread of the educational levels is not representative of the general population levels. In terms of the Black Africans only 21% h...

Americas and the Influence of Latin Culture

Practitioners of Santeria do pray to Catholic saints, but they also venerate animistic gods and goddesses which stem from the Afri...

Elementary Classroom Learning and Music Instruction

level math and science problems. In a subsequent study that replicated this research, again, the results showed that the students ...

Religious Influences in the Music of Charles Ives

reworked" into passages that frequently sound "hymnic" (Tawa 67-68). As pointed out by Robert Bellah, Christianity, and the Jude...

Analyzing John Cage's Changing Music

composed in 1951 New York. The cycle of piano music, for example, had been written as a dedication to David Tudor and within the...

Short Storie Elements in Works by John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Mark Twain, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

Record Labels, Major versus Independent

rock, classics, country, jazz, etc. - may be better served in the environment in which the major labels operate. When music types...

1960s' Civil Rights Music and Martin Luther King Jr.

all, a wild animal will fight to be free of restraints as well and this does not indicate that they are good, nor does it indicate...

Uses of Digital Audio Technology

same every single time you play it no matter how many times you play it)" (Brain). Digital audio recording accomplishes these goa...

Cinema and the Impact of Music

desperate and louder, so too does the score, until a crescendo of grand proportions is reached. At this point in the scene, a grea...

Comparing Laurence Olivier's 1948 Film 'Hamlet' with William Shakespeare's Play

subject which had been taboo in Shakespeares time - with Ophelia), betrayal (Queen Gertrudes incestuous marriage to her brother-in...

TV Violence and Women

itself appear erotic to the male viewer (Marks, 2000). A report on prime-time broadcast network TV issued in 2002 by the National...

Research Proposal; Why Do Collage Students Have a Permissive Attitude Towards Piracy?University Students, Permissive Attitudes and Piracy

as acceptable this will give a greater insight to how the problem may be solved in the future and the best approach to take that m...

Beethoven's Eroica

goes that Beethoven was inspired by the principles of the French Revolution and, specifically, the person of Napoleon Bonaparte in...

Babies and Bach

sites, such as GeniusBabies.com, assert that their embryonic learning system, which includes music, can turn the neonate into a ge...

French Composer Charles Gounod's Life and Music

1937). Gounod was equally gifted in art and for a time seemed torn between the two but a musical epiphany he had at age 13 would ...

Music of Samoa

significance (Amerika Samoa). These dances are "elegant, vibrant and sometimes erotic" (Amerika Samoa). Author Robert Louis Stev...

Cultural Determinism in the Songs of Tupac Shakur

has upon his fans, one must first understand the meaning behind the words. Perhaps the best definition of this particular type of...

Clinical Environmental Considerations of Music Therapy

be given specific attention to ensure that the outcome is more positive than negative. If indeed found to be effective, the...

Analysis of the Fourth Act of Aida by Giuseppe Verdi

Radames will be condemned as a traitor! Yet, a traitor he is not!" (p. 259). The piano accompaniment that is given with this score...

Russian Ballet and Musical Development and the Impact of the Bolshevik Revolution

five" (Alexander Borodin, Cesar Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modeste Mussorgsky, and Mily Balakirev) (Ursin). Prior to the Russi...

The Minute Waltz by Frederic Chopin

grief for his homeland in the Revolutionary Etude (Machlis 82). Chopin arrived in Paris in 1831 and the majority of his musical c...