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- 3541: The Revival Of Jazz In South Africa
- ... our exile in sanctuaries outside South Africa...They were even bold enough to speak of revolution and be banned."(KEBEDE-117) Performers were often paid only a few pounds which gave the recording company full rights to their music in perpetuity. And, says jazz trumpeter Dennis Mpale, "Many venues were closed to us (if we were) a racially mixed band, and there was often a scramble to get a show finished ...
- 3542: Woodstock 2
- ... 1960's counterculture and a milestone in rock history. Among those attending were members of the counterculture, who were often referred to a hippies, and chaarcteristically rejected authority, prtested the Vietnam War, supported the Civil Rights movement, dressed unconventionally, and experimented with sex and illegal drugs. Woodstock Music and Arts fair drew more than 500,000 people. For three days the site became a counterculture mini-nation where mind were open ...
- 3543: W.B.Yeats And Leda And The Swan
- ... first quatrain of Yeats' work describes the initial encounter between woman and bird. The swan, normally a symbol of beauty, is here depicted as brutish, holding Leda's nape (back of the neck) with his bill, and forcing himself on her. Yet, paradoxically, the bestial swan is also tender, the webs of his wings caressing her thighs. This is also a factor in the next stanza Quatrain two finds Leda perhaps ...
- 3544: Violence In Rap Music
- ... his 325 lb. frame as a scare tactic. A former employee of Knight, Vanilla Ice ( Rob Van Winkle) recently said in an interview that Knight held him by the ankles over a hotel balcony demanding rights to the song "Ice, Ice Baby." Knight and one of his employees--Mario Lavelle Johnson who helped write the song-- wanted in on the success that Ice was having with the song. Since Vanilla Ice ...
- 3545: Romanticism
- ... painted in 1814 after king Ferdinand was restored to the Spanish throne. In literature Schiller's famous poem "Ode to Joy" written on the eve of the French Revolution showed his firm beliefs in human rights to dignity and freedom plus his hopes for universal brotherhood. He is placed in the transition between the Enlightenment and The Romantic Era. His poem is eternally recognized and was the inspiration for Beethoven's ...
- 3546: Roman Pantomime
- ... However, Pickering claims that regardless of his legislation, Augustus himself was quite apt to watching mimes and pantomimes. In general terms, theatrical performers as a group were classed as infami and could claim no civil rights. Furthermore, according to Hartnoll, most Roman actors were slaves, earning starvation wages at the best. The implications here being that acting as a profession was looked down upon greatly by most in Roman society. In ...
- 3547: Rock Music
- ... n' Roll. Record companies distributed records played by whites but composed by blacks. Whites were frustrated because there weren't any white artists, and they didn't want the blacks to be the stars until Bill Haley appeared with his "Rock Around the Clock". In this decade, Elvis Presley introduced a music that was sexual-suggestive, and outraged many adults of that time. In time, he changed the style of the ...
- 3548: Propaganda In Film
- ... is the elite that control the media and use its immense power to shape opinions and outlooks. Freedom of the press has always been an important axiom of democracy and one of America's cherished rights. Those who think that America's media is one of the freest might be somewhat surprised to find out that almost all the means of communication, from satellites, to the television networks, to the TV ...
- 3549: Popular Music Revolution
- ... calypso, by traditional folk styles, and by a variety of other music conventions (Belz vii). This variety reflects the varied backgrounds of young people at the time. Early successes in this new music genre included Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, and Chuck Berry. This music only succeeded because the conditions in society and the opinions of the youth in that time period allowed it to succeed. This music revolution is ...
- 3550: Objectism
- ... happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life. Politics is the perfect society. Each and every man helps and does things for each other for mutual benefit. The government only exists to protect the rights of everyone and only uses physical violence in self-protection. No person exists as anothers slave or master everyone is equal. In the perfect society government is separated from economics like it is from ...
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