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Life and Music of Jazz Artist Sonny Rollins

In five pages Sonny Rollins' life and jazz music are examined in this overview. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

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 ...

Twentieth Century Jazz Musician Cy Coleman

The life and music of this legendary jazz artist are considered in five pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

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...

Scott Joplin & George Gershwin

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

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...

Romantic Art and English Painter J.M.W. Turner

In ten pages this nineteenth century artist's life and art are the focus of this report with his music in paint Romanticism the pr...

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...

Last Wish by Betty Rollin

with introducing Ida Rollin to the reader. She was a remarkable woman. A "people" person, Ida "adopted" people. Rollin explains ho...

Electronic v. Conventional Music Distribution

In five pages distributing music electronically through Internet download sites rather than by conventional means is critically an...

Music and Brotherly Love in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

to try heroin in the first place. To him it must equate with a death wish. The irrationality of Sonnys habit is quite evident at t...

Family Reactions to a Member’s Troubles in Baldwin and Kafka

stress, particularly when the stress also involves a violation of social "norms." Some have suggested that Gregors "metamorphosis"...

Herbie Hancock

years playing with the Miles Davis quintet and Davis was a tremendous influence for him (Murph 54). Herbie once observed that Dav...

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...

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...

Judith Rollins' All is Never Said

This paper provides a sociological examination of the text along with such applicable terms as social stratification, social map, ...

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...

Jazz and its Influence

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

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....

Music Industry Marketing

a point of influence with a major label. The music industry has complained for some time of its inability to sell albums....

Business Issues in the Music Industry

acquired by larger companies seeking to grow through that route. Traditional retailers have blamed Internet retailers, piracy and...

Violent Song Lyrics/Teen Aggression

the detrimental emotional and psychological effects that this type of music has on young people. However, besides examining the su...

Impressionism/Music & Art

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

Evolution Of Gospel Music In America

anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...

Chip Deffaa's 'Traditionalists and Revivalists in Jazz'

This paper consists of 12 pages and chronicles those significant performers whos contributions are often overlooked in other books...

Miles Davis' and Duke Ellington's Music

In sixteen pages this research paper contrasts and compares the careers of influential jazz artists Miles Davis and Duke Ellington...

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...

Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun and James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues' Compared

essence of Emersons claim for moral exuberance that galvanizes youthful idealism than Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun. Se...

Master of the Rohan Hours

("Master"). It is also believed by scholars that the extensive biblical cycle contained in the Rohan Hours is based on the Bible m...

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...