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- 4621: Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
- ... acknowledged they had incorporated off-beat meters into jazz long before Don Ellis took up the quest. It was while the Orchestra was in England during the 1956 tour (the Kenton Orchestra was the first American entertainment group permitted by the British Musicians Union to tour that fabled land of Kings and legends since World War II), that Stan scored several original sequences for the Sadler Wells Ballet Company, along with ... to the United States he learned he was the 3rd member to be elected to the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame; an honor established for outstanding musicians who had contributed the most to Contemporary American Music in the 20th Century. Subsequently he won the Playboy Magazine Jazz Poll in the leader category six times and Grammy Awards for 'West Side Story,' 'Adventures in Jazz' and 'Adventures In Time.' Kenton's ...
- 4622: Behind the Doors
- ... arms on the sides of the porcelain tub, and that boyish smile on his face. Pam called the fire department and attempted CPR. There was no autopsy and the casket was sealed without informing the American Embassy. This brought about much controversy. To keep privacy Pam told the press Jim was “not dead but was very tired and resting in a hospital.” Pam claimed the coffin was sealed and the death ... for an ad for Gap Jeans. In 1978 an album of poetry Jim recorded on his birthday in 1970 was released. The remaining members of The Doors added music to the poetry. It was called “American Prayer” (Stambler 188-191). In 1991 Oliver Stone released a movie called The Doors starring Val Kilmer as Jim, it made $40 million at the box office, said Cathleen McGuigan in her 1991 Newsweek article ...
- 4623: The Flute
- ... limbs. For example, the “Bushman’s flute,” made of an ostrich feather and quill, closed at the bottom and was held vertical against the lower lip. It closely resembles a fountain-pen cap. The classic American Indian medicine man’s “Mataco whistle,” is made of a bird bone flageolet, producing sound from a hole in the middle under which there is a lump of resin applied to deflect the breath on ... enough to play them. Reference Baines, Anthony. “Woodwind Instruments and their History.” Copyright 1957 W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. Brody, D. Mitchell and Phelan, James. “The Complete Guide to the Flute.” Copyright 1980 Pan American and International. Boehm, Theobald. “The Flute and Flute-Playing.” Copyright 1964 Dover Publications, Inc. Hotteterre, Jacques. “Principles of the Flute Recorder and Oboe.” Copyright 1968 London, England. Toff, Nancy. “The Flute Book.” Copyright 1985,1996 ...
- 4624: The Beat Generation
- ... are here and what here is. Some of the founders, of this movement were Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, who then was under the name of William Lee, and Allen Ginsberg. The Beats rejected the conventional American life style. As survivors of the World War II and preys of consumerism, everything that went on in the United States gave them great dissatisfaction. Their meaning of life was rediscovered from Jazz, Buddhism and ... this reflected the beat’s movement and spontaniety. Jazz was definitely an essential for the beats in the Beat Generation. Jazz was a form of music created by African Americans. It was a mix of American and African music. Jazz had big attractions and influences on the Beats. Jazz could easily give the beats kicks because they were both considered to be minority, or esoteric, to the society. They also shared ...
- 4625: Music and The Global Perspective
- ... include pop, folk, country, and rock. Other styles, including jazz, blues, and various ethnic music, are the result of a blending of cultures and traditions. All these styles constitute an important part of music in American society, styles that constitute “ American music.” The ethnic diversity: part of the cultural richness of our nation is derived from its ethnic diversity and its large number of ethnic groups. Immigrant groups may have partially assimilated into the mainstream of ...
- 4626: The Roots of Blues Music
- ... hear today has some form of blues in it. If it wasn't for the blues there wouldn't be any rock and roll, country, rap, pop, or jazz . Blues is also important for African American culture. African Americans were also the people who started the blues. The Blues started in the late 1800's in levee camps or plantations in places like Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas were many African Americans ... and the most famous Charlie Patton who is credited for being the founder of the Delta Blues. In the end you can say that Blues came from many places, played an important part in African American culture, And was and still is a popular form of music for everybody.
- 4627: Paul McCartney: Six Feet Under?
- ... picture of where Paul is supposed to be buried. In the song, "Lady Madonna," the lyrics say the newspapers that day of the accident were recalled: ...Wednesday papers didn't come... At the end of "Revolution," some of the all rights sound just like Paul died, and occasionally a background vocal dubs in that phrase. The song "You Know My Name, Look Up the Number," cites the phone number found on ... s Son, referring to he being buried. Ringo laments Paul's accident in the song "Don't Pass Me By": you were in a car crash and you lost your head (the lyrics say hair)... "Revolution #9" is the spookiest of any of the songs mentioned. ..his voice was low and his eye was high and his eyes were closed...*Paul* died...my fingers are broken and so is my hair ...
- 4628: Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead
- ... with drugs that would change the nature of the band's story. Certainly this wasn't the first time drugs had been used in music for artistic expression or had found their way into an American cultural movement. Many jazz and blues artists had been smoking marijuana and using various narcotics to intensify their music making for several decades, and in the Fifties the Beats had extolled marijuana as an assertion ... record the band followed with, Workingman's Dead, was the Dead's response to that period. The album was a statement about the changing and badly corrupt sense of community in America. the next album American Beauty, made it plain and apparent that they were not breaking up even though the first album put doubts in the minds of fans, called Deadheads. It was the sort of standard fan club pitch ...
- 4629: Jazz and Classical Music
- ... were European. Vivaldi was Italian, Bach was German, Mozart and Beethoven were Austrian; they are some of the more prominent composers. Not until the twentieth century with Gershwin and a few others do we find American composers writing this kind of art music. For the sake of convention, we can refer to Western Art Music as Classical music. Jazz is a distinctively American form of music, and it's history occupies a much smaller span of time. Its origins are found in the early 1900s as some dance band leaders in the southern U.S. began playing music ...
- 4630: Gangsta Rap: Crime
- ... out of 8 televised sexual encounters involve extramarital sex (Newsweek, 1994). This trend is startling when compared to the fact that children spend more time watching television than they spend in school. According to the American Psychological Association, a typical child sees 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on TV before graduating from elementary school (Nation, 1994). The results of how television, specifically sex and violence, affect children ... link between violence and media attention in our culture. In the long run, individuals will make decisions about what they will buy, read, or see. Some will lean towards the vulgar and the pornographic. The American society has some sense of this. They may be irritated or outraged by pop culture, but the polls state that the principal courses of violence and other national problems lie beyond the entertainment industry (Congressional ...
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