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Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

Computer Music and Its Impact Upon Society

in the past (Forest 35). For example, using Macintosh computers and a software program called "Kids Notes," four-year-olds can c...

Modern Society and Desensitization

In 5 pages the cultural and social reasons why the increase in violent behavior has desensitized contemporary society particularly...

Jazz Legend Billie Holiday

In a paper consisting of ten pages the influence of the legendary jazz performer Billie Holiday in terms of music and society are ...

National Identity and Ethnic Music

band Yothu Yindi, has asserted that popular music provides a useful tool to propagate Aboriginal political awareness: (Dunbar-Hall...

Literary Influence of the Romantic Period

self realization, self expression and self reliance were all an aspect of the awareness of the self within the natural world. The ...

Teens and Music's Influence

Manson is perhaps the most controversial performer today, with his flaunting of sexuality and attention to violence. Manson is ...

Ludwig von Beethoven and His Influence

society normally associates with music (Bowen 9). While Bowen admits that this hypothesis may appear to be overstated, he points...

Appreciation of Music Throughout Time

Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand," writes ...

Computer Music and its Social Effects

This paper discusses how digital or computerized music and its technology have significantly affected society in five pages. Four...

Does Music Evoke Images? A Philosophical Consideration

In this paper consisting of ten pages the pros of cons of whether or not music can conjure images are considered in terms of man's...

Eighteenth Century Musical Influences

In four pages this essay examines the impact upon the Enlightenment upon the music of the eighteenth century and how it reflected ...

Music Piracy as a Growing Problem

past year than perhaps then have been at any other time. This increased awareness of copyright issues can be attributed to such h...

Social Effects of Hip Hop

Bronx Commonly touted as the poorest congressional district in the nation where average per capita income was just $8,000 i...

Early 20th Century's Neoclassical Music and its Anti Romantic Elements

codified and structured. Neoclassical forms were, in turn, a reaction against the idealism characterised by the Romantic ...

Social Change and Rock Music

- and record labels - can break with tradition to experiment with a variety of types of expressions meant to reflect the culture (...

Music and the Sexualization of Women

The number and diversity of those involved in the debate surrounding the sexualization of women is overwhelming. Research abounds...

Ship Registry and Certification

Kyokai (ClassNK), 1899 * River Register of 1913: Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) * Croatian Register of Shipping (CRS),...

Richard Wagner’s Theories of Music

Leitmotiv" (Brandt 3). This is a revolutionary idea that bears repeating. Today opera audiences have begun to demand singers who...

Sonata Form, Haydn and Mozart

not always in the allegro tempo. For the purposes of this essay, "sonata form" will refer to the construction of the movement, whi...

Preparing Children to Take Music Lessons

in reaching deaf and blind children who would otherwise tune out. When used to help children learn basic skills, it is referred to...

Women in Rock and Country Genres

direct attacks at those who scorn them (e.g. Taylor Swift). Instead, todays country music stars talk to magazines about diet, exer...

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...

"Napster 2.0: The Cat Is Back"

in protest over threatened royalty rate increases (Munarriz, 2008). * Download sites operate "on razor-thin margins, with bandwidt...

Music Licensing and Creative Commons

to "use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses." The website describes attribution, nonc...

John Cage, “Winter Music” (1957)

to perform Cages works based on the composers "idiosyncratic but functional notations," such as the notations that accompany "Wint...

Traditional Music in Pakistan

the case for most cultures, voice accompaniment occurs in some traditional Pakastani music but is absent in others. My preference...

RAP MUSIC AND PERPETUATION OF MISOGYNY

couple of studies dealing with gansta rap and its impact on adolescents most likely to be affected by it. Well then move to the ot...

Herbie Hancock

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