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Listening to Music in an Active Fashion

expressive qualities of the music such as the pieces themes and melodies, the texture of the instruments and arrangement, as well ...

Does Hip Hop Harm Black Americans?

and its signature musical expression, rap music, which evolved from the "African American, Afro-Caribbean and Latino communities o...

Edgard Varese

it is not a work that may be argued as influential. It may be argued that his dissatisfaction and frustrations in his personal lif...

Three Brief Essays on Musical Topics

opium. The drug, too weak to kill, plunges him into a heavy sleep accompanied by strange visions. His sensations...are translated ...

Popular Music and Mariah Carey's Influence

father (Dougherty 8). Carey relates that she has always loved to sing and gives a great deal of credit to her mother...

Billboard Magazine's News Articles

American culture. For instance, the article pertaining to the Atlantic Records preview spotlights one of the most recent technolog...

Music as Symbolic Behavior/Alan P. Merriam

"symbols," and their relationship to art and its abstract nature. Having established a basis for discussing symbolism, specific ...

Music During the Romantic Era

swung between the desire to keep emotion under the control of reason and the desire for free, uninhibited expression (Machlis, 197...

Cold War Ideology and Music

that was more accommodating to the US. At its height, the congress for Cultural Freedom had offices in 35 countries, which frequen...

Dallas and Fort Worth's 4 Live Musical Performances

to consume him. The audience could not help but to be drawn into his world for a while. Audience/Atmosphere The audience itself...

Evolution of Rap Music in France

both French and American rappers see themselves as expressing the frustration and anger of oppressed minorities towards establishe...

Christian Worship Music and Theology

of worship. Canticles are a part of todays liturgy in the Roman Catholic Church" and "The first written chants were associated wit...

Punk Music in the Buddha of Suburbia and Trainspotting

Trainspotting, while music is present, the theme does not pertain to band life. Still, one could equate the two as rock n roll is ...

American Appeal of Blues Music

both in terms of musicality and lyrics. This paper will examine the roots of the blues, what has made it very appealing...

The History Of American Gospel Music

nothing but these songs, these oral traditions that communicated not only their religious beliefs but their hopes and dreams as we...

Art and Music A Reflection of and an Impact to American Culture

This paper examines art like a diversity of art to discern its impact on our culture. World War II's Rosie the Riveter is explore...

Power in the Pulpit How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons by Cleophus James Larue

illustrate the points they make. Larue himself is a preacher and scholar who is an associate professor of homiletics at Princeton ...

African American Community, Important Theories of Psychology, and the Causes and Effects of Neglect and Oppression

1998). What these factors are telling many within the mental health community it that the majority of African Americans are living...

Civil Rights Activist Al Sharpton's Life and Achievements

age of nine (2003). Hence, even his childhood was entrenched in religion and preaching. That said, he did pursue other interests w...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man, Nella Larsen's Passing, and Lynching

married to a very successful doctor who wishes to leave the country and find a place where they are not oppressed. Irene, however,...

African American Life of Frederick Douglass

by and watch what he had worked for his whole life dissipate in front of his eyes. Douglass was not the typical African...

Analyzing Frederick Douglass's Speech 'What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?'

task before him. He maintained that any apparent ease he displayed was merely an illusion. Because of this opening, I believe th...

A Comparative Analysis of 'Ar'n't I A Woman?' and 'What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?' And "Compare/Contrast

Truth went to bat for every woman when she spoke before a crowd of hostile white people at the 1851 Ohio Womens Rights Convention,...

Frederick Douglass

how even liberals of the North were surprised, if not appalled, at such a union. In essence, what this film presents us with is a ...

Historian and Journalist George Washington Williams

finally relented and approved him for combat (Franklin, 1977). He received a serious injury during the war and received an honora...

Cervical or Breast Cancer and the High Incidences in African American Women

National Womens Health Information Center, 1998). Findings from a recent National Cancer Institute study noted how African Americ...

Ralph Ellison's Life and Literary Career

However, any hope for a middle-class life died in 1917 with the death of Lewis Ellison (Rogers 12). Nevertheless, the...

Toni Morrison's Writings and the Use of Trauma

to those themes" (Mayo 231). Another author indicates that "Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye emphasizes the de-culturing effects o...

Influences of African American Art on Matisse and Picasso

in his numerous interpretations of both male and female characters. During this period, Picassos works began to shift slightly in...

African American Poet Langston Hughes

he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....