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In sixteen pages this research paper contrasts and compares the careers of influential jazz artists Miles Davis and Duke Ellington...
orchestrate by using this band, an "unrivaled collection of musical eccentrics," as his "laboratory," in which he mastered the art...
have adventures and leave responsibility behind. This puts Bertrande in a very difficult position for she is left to run her ho...
agricultural commune, with most people looking out for the other, in which agricultural products were the primary focus of barter....
In ten pages this paper discusses the jazz pioneers including James P. Johnson, W.C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington an...
is often "misunderstood, under-appreciated and underestimated. If jazz is the underdog, avant-garde jazz is beneath the underdog"...
icon and hero for African Americans for he was a very classy and intelligent man, but also clearly a man of his people despite his...
how probable his apocalyptic vision is for Los Angeles. Unfortunately for Daviss argument, all of these modern pestilences ...
In six pages Ellington's unique and completely individual style is examined in terms of its contributing factors as well as his or...
we see an older man who doesnt sleep well at night any more; his long walks and an old clip of Fred and Ginger dressed in their fi...
his first name (Long ppg). Perhaps because in his music, the listener is the musicians accomplice, and from bebop to rap, Miles ...
In 1947, Armstrong was placed in a group of jazz musicians, and they played a semblance of the old New Orleans style type jazz ("A...
Miles Davis, and many of the works which came from those periods are still considered classics today (Biography of Miles Davis, 20...
heavily upon Henry Louis Gates Jr.s text The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism and applied the si...
In five pages these revolutionary jazz musicians are compared in terms of these two definitive works. There is no bibliography in...
the detrimental emotional and psychological effects that this type of music has on young people. However, besides examining the su...
not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...
anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...
alternates between believing him an angel and, conversely, possessed. Thus, Krieg, in his criticism, suggests: The governesss per...
it becomes docile, perhaps nothing, without the power of men. It waits at its stable to be ridden once more. We see how she relate...
time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...
the accompaniment of the "Indian sitar, the rebab or bowed choraphone, the suling or bamboo flute, the gendang, kenong and saron o...
disturbing since music has been shown to be important to child development "physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially and ...
the element of chance, such as the chance imperfections that are seen in a finely produced piece of paper, such as one having a wa...
This 3 page paper gives a summary of the speech given to Congress by Jefferson Davis over property owning in relation to slaves. T...
10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...
of natural development are interrupted through the introduction of the urban landscape, but that nature inherently responds to the...
or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...
hit with a severe energy crisis, driving costs up while the residents of the state suffered rolling black-outs (6). Davis was cri...
battle it out in the budget, bridge engineers are happily moving over to other regional agency posts for as much as twenty-five pe...