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Life and Death of Rap Performer Tupac Shakur

showcase his individual talent" (Wikipedia, 2005). His songs were primarily songs about the struggles of African American people, ...

Rap Music: Social Meaning

affair of choppy strophes of braggadocio chanted over an endlessly repeating bass line and drum track. But there is more to the m...

Cultural Determinism in the Songs of Tupac Shakur

has upon his fans, one must first understand the meaning behind the words. Perhaps the best definition of this particular type of...

East and West Coast Rap Wars and the Deaths of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.

for example (Kinnon, 1997). However, the genre changed around 1988 with the emergence of a sub-genre termed gangsta rap (1997). A ...

The Life and Foreign Struggle View of Assata Shakur

In three pages Assata Shakur's autobiography is discussed in terms of the linkage between her personal exile and struggles can be ...

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...

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...

Scott Joplin & George Gershwin

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

Syncretic Music

the accompaniment of the "Indian sitar, the rebab or bowed choraphone, the suling or bamboo flute, the gendang, kenong and saron o...

Necessity of Music Education

disturbing since music has been shown to be important to child development "physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially and ...

Structure in Music

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...

The Music of Mozart

Europe and, as a boy, Mozart gave concerts in all the major cities of Europe (Machlis 206). By the time he was thirteen, he had co...

Music of Mississippi John Hurt

December 21, 1928, was by far the most productive, as Hurt cut three spirituals and five blues works during this session (Obrecht)...

Popular Music and Mariah Carey's Influence

father (Dougherty 8). Carey relates that she has always loved to sing and gives a great deal of credit to her mother...

Three Brief Essays on Musical Topics

opium. The drug, too weak to kill, plunges him into a heavy sleep accompanied by strange visions. His sensations...are translated ...

Music of the Australian Aborigines

In ten pages this research paper considers the music of the aboriginal peoples of Australia in this informational overview that di...

The Music Lessons by Playwright Wakako Yamauchi

In five pages this paper discusses the life symbols offered by music and books in this analysis of the play The Music Lessons by W...

The United States of the 1920s

nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...

Life is Worth Living Through a Study of Humanities

In this paper consisting of five pages life's beauty is demonstrated in a core curriculum of art, music, and literature. There ar...

Giuseppe Verdi and His Life's Influence on His Music

its pointless...misfortune rules the world" (Rosselli, 2000, p. 30). In later life, Verdi admitted that in a "sudden moment of des...

Four Insights into the Meaning of Life

responsibility. He feels stifled by his Louisiana environment and longs to leave. He knows that this involvement will strengthen h...

Music Industry Changes Resulting from Digital and Analog Music

Smaller and easily transportable audiocassettes stored music onto acetate tape that was magnetically transmitted (Patrick, 2001). ...

Topics on Music

In four term papers of three pages each musical topics such as music and brain function; anthropology and music; memory, learning ...

Calypso

in the call and answer format, with matching phrases with the use of many V - I cadences and then open cadences to allow the respo...

John Cage/His Impact on Music

"rubber, felt, or wood, as well as screws, nuts and bolts" (Machlis 632). The result of this preparation is that the piano produ...

Music As Sedation for Children

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...

Strategic Challenges to the Music Industry

extension of this established practice. The music industry claimed that the development was not a surprise, and that the potential...

The Influence of Music on Trahce in African Tradition Religions

The writer presents an examination of the role music plays in trance. The paper looks at both shamanic and possession trance, the ...

Southern and South African: Power of Christian Music

is "actually the confidence in the inner, hidden Holy Spirit inside of themselves as divine creations" (Ungureanu-Pamfi, 2011). Th...