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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...

Definition and Application of Postmodernism

of these schools of thought was sufficient, but that there could be the existence of the competing thoughts that create conflict ...

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...

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 as Modernism

Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...

Kinetic Art and Real Movement

only one right way to do something. As artists we are only limited by our imaginations. The same is true for from one "ism" or p...

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 ...

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...

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...

Living Comparision Between New Orleans and Chicago

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Comparison of Pre First World War Artistic Modernism and 1920s European Modernism

any other international symbol, art strips away the barriers inherent to humanity. Indeed, Picassos Still Life speaks a language ...

Changes in Understanding of the City

and industrial in both appearance and flavor, though a commentator notes that "it is a complex and visually stimulating structure"...

Scott Joplin & George Gershwin

time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...

Manifestos in Arts, Crafts, and Marxism

and artistic consequences of what they felt was ill-considered machine use (Crouch, 1999). Hand skills were esteemed due to the fa...

Comparative Analysis of Enlightenment and Modernist Movements

Declaration, Gouges (1791) writes: " Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights. Social distinctions can be based only ...

Modernism and Literature

became sculptural" (Make It New: The Rise of Modernism). From another perspective one author notes, "It is usually thought that ...

Literature of T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Mary Shelley

are very important elements in a romantic novel. There is also the woman who loves Frankenstein without question. She is, of cou...

Modern and Postmodern Fashion Design

this trend also came about in the 2000s with bright colors and unusual styles. More recently, the baggy pants look was inspired by...

The Ideas of Zygmunt Bauman

used frequently, under a number of definitions and toward a multiplicity of areas, from art to literature. After establishing wha...

Modernism and Capitalism Perspectives

too much like pre modern despotic households (1997). He sees a compromise as the answer. Rather than going one way or the other, ...

Art and Modernism

value but not a supreme one"(Frascina 71, see also Risatti). His belief, counter to others, was that modern art had driven itself ...

Contemporary European Drama Classification

In five pages this paper examines the social dramas of August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen in a consideration of modernism classifi...

Mann, Gide, Kafka, Woolf, and Modernism

It was realistic, but the writing was complicated and required the reader to become intimately involved with the subject matter. ...