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- 2371: Motown’s Evolution and with Emphasis on Its Women
- ... girl groups” making their way into the white radio listening population. This hit broke the color barrier and was the pop style music that Berry was turning to. Motown had begun to create a music revolution. The members of the four peice group weree Gladys Horton, Wanda Young, Georgeanna Tillman and Katherine Anderson. This group was essentially abandoned when Motown moved to Los Angeles in 1970, and after time off for ...
- 2372: The Emergence of Heavy Metal
- ... heavy metal today, and what it was when the mighty Led Zeppelin was still producing is very unfair. Their loud, raw style never progressed much past the bounds of their own music. There was no revolution created by their music, and in a way, their image and style alienated many older music fans that had come of age listening to the musical stylings on Dylan and the Beatles. For many, their ...
- 2373: Slavery and The South
- ... slaveowners provided shelter, food, care, and regulation for a race unable to compete in the modern world without proper training. Many Southern preachers proclaimed that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible. But after the American Revolution slavery really died it the North, just as it was becoming more popular in the South. By the time of 1804 seven of the northern most states had abolished slavery. During this time a surge ...
- 2374: Albert Camus
- ... and was plagued with great illness in his short life. Camus is a great role model and idol for us all. Camus was born into poverty on November 2, 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria (a former French colony in Africa). His mother, Catherine Sintes, was a cleaning woman, and his father, Lucien Camus, was a farmhand. Only a few months old, Albert lost his father in the horrors of World War I ...
- 2375: Woodstock
- ... sex, and also illicit drugs. Youthful imaginations were captured, most obviously, by the hippie sound: driving, deafening hard beat of rock, music that is not just a particular form of pop but the anthem of revolution. A hippie's goal is to accomplish peace, love and freedom in society. To be a hippie you must believe in peace as the way to resolve differences among people, ideologies and religions ("The Way ...
- 2376: Basquiat and Davis
- ... and illustrated a children’s book. Basquiat was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock films, cars, comic books, and Alfred E. Newman from Mad Magazine. By the time he was seven he was an avid reader of French, Spanish, and English texts. In his teenage years Basquiat ran away from home often. He did not like obedience. By 1978 he was in with the “in crowd.” The filmmakers and artists of New York ...
- 2377: Longitude
- ... that longitude could be found by the position of the moon and select stars. At the time, Dr. Edmond Halley proved this theory wrong. After many observations, Halley concluded that the moon s rate of revolution around the earth was accelerating overtime. John Harrison was a simple clockmaker and a self-educated person who was accredited for finding longitude by means of a timekeeper. John built his first pendulum watch in ...
- 2378: The Flute
- ... sign of aristocracy and fashionable. Operas and “Gentlemens Concerts” were founded during this era, in and around the 1700's (http;//hflute.html, p. 1). The boom of the flutes was most important in the French courts along with a more adventurous writing style. As the nineteenth century began, the flute was beginning to be seen as an old-fashioned instrument. Most people were awed at the skill of those that ...
- 2379: A Touch Of Jazz
- ... masters was as varied and unpredictable as their social relationship. Field hands and house servants had anything but equal opportunities to hear the music of their masters. The Dutch, Danes and British were Protestants; the French, Spanish and Portuguese were Catholics. Each brought on not only an entirely separate musical tradition. But everywhere the influence of white music upon black was paralleled and often surpassed by that of black upon white ...
- 2380: Jazz Age
- ... simply to embellish or paraphrase a tune, Armstrong himself was a master at both. Armstrong’s command of the trumpet was arguable greater than that of any preceding jazz trumpeter who recorded. In actuality, the revolution initiated by Armstrong took place in fits and starts, and with little fanfare at the time. After Armstrong’s departure from the King Oliver Creole Band, over a year would transpire before he would record ...
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