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Compare and Contrast: Jazz by Toni Morrison and Black and Blue by Louis Armstrong

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Toni Morrison's book Jazz with Louis Armstrong's song Black and Blue....

Jazz Curriculum for Korea

to the advent of jazz, improvisation was an integral part of European music, as the improvisational skills of such composers as Ba...

Literature about the Blues and Jazz

where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...

African American Theater and Blues and the Influential Works of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes

a line stating the mood of the singer repeated three times. The stress and variation is carried by the tune and the whole thing w...

Blues and James Baldwin’s Short Story “Sonny’s Blues”

their late mother, who was the familys support system. Of her, the narrator would recall, "I always see her wearing pale blue" (B...

Langston Hughes' Blues Poetry

and white, life and death, happiness and sadness, rich (white majority) and poor (black minority) to express social injustice and ...

Jazz and its Influence

In nine pages this paper discusses the influence of jazz in the US. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....

Max De Pree's Leadership Jazz

pull up a chair. De Pree correlates the skills of a jazz musician: improvisation, innovation, freedom, and inspiration, with wo...

Black Poetry and Literature and the Blues

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the relationship between black poetry and literature with jazz and blues music with...

Jazz and Blues

This research paper describes the relationship between blues and jazz within the context of the history of these genres. The write...

A Blue Care Network Analysis

Michigan with a family of products that has been around since the middle of the 1970s ("Company," 2002). There was a time when BCN...

The Origins of the Blues

In many ways, the blues have a very "rich sense of origin" for a variety of reasons (Encyclopedia of Chicago, 2007). \...

Improvisation, Composition and Jazz

This essay pertains to improvisation and composition in jazz and describes how both of these terms are utilized within jazz perfor...

The Jazz Music of the Alex Blake Quartet

more jazz musicians will typically improvise simultaneously (Machlis 413). For all intents and purposes, Alex Blakes biography fo...

Jazz and New Orleans

ongoing, carried in the people, but the symbols and landmarks, of the music and the culture it has influenced. The loss of the bui...

Living Comparision Between New Orleans and Chicago

urban professionals because in Chicago, business reigns supreme. There are numerous transportation, commerce, and financial congl...

Southern Florida and Jazz Music

In addition the school provides opportunities to engage in off-campus activities because the area of Southern Florida is such a ja...

Jazz by Toni Morrison

This 5 page paper analyzes Toni Morrison's novel "Jazz," and argues that Toni Morrison uses jazz and sexual identity as ...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie

Pioneering jazz great Dizzy Gillespie is the focus of this research paper consisting of five pages in which jazz elements and the ...

1920s and 1930s Jazz Music

In ten pages this paper discusses the jazz pioneers including James P. Johnson, W.C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington an...

Comparing and Contrasting Classical Music and the Blues

The writer compares and contrasts two popular types of music, classical and the Blues. The writer differentiates between the two a...

Origins of Blues Music

society (Nogueira; Bours). The considerable creativity of these people was channeled solely into outlets such as the chant, danc...

Literature and Themes of Power and Race

In five pages this paper considers power and race as they are portrayed in the short stories 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin, 'Bat...

Light and Darkness in James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'

us with darkness and alienation. We note that Sonnys brother is a teacher, and he feels himself to be successful. He feels that ...

Successful Short Story Characteristics

not strain her mental state. She must not write in her journal, she must not be in a room she finds more pleasant than the one cho...

Literature and Epiphany

drug addict living a life very similar to Sonnys. : "Thats right, he said quickly, aint nothing you can do. Cant much help old Son...

Overview of Postpartum Depression

treatment, as the body adjusts to new hormone levels. However, a new mother who utilizes good self-care techniques and makes use o...

Mourning and Separaton in the Poems of John Donne and W.H. Auden

died. The poet feels that the entire world, in fact, should be in mourning as even "public doves" should have "crepe bows" around ...

Art Music Composers and Jazz's Influence

the realm of art music during the course of his career, George Gershwin. While Stravinskys work shows the influence of jazz, it wa...