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- 4241: Chinese Music
- ... music, or gagaku. Among the many genres of Chinese music is a form of music drama often called Chinese opera. Formerly these operas were based on old tales of heroes and the supernatural. Today the stories often deal with heroes of the Communist revolution or with great historical events of the recent past. The first fully developed form of Chinese opera, called northern drama, or beiqu (pei ch'ό), emerged during ...
- 4242: Charlie Parker At Storyville
- ... Blues." It is very complex yet fun to listen to. I love to hear Parker play his horn. He really is a master. This piece is in a 12 bar blues form. There is a short intro by Charlie Parker on the sax. Then Herb Pomeroy and Parker play once through the chorus. The trumpet and sax together here sound really fabulous. The two match each other with amazing accuracy. Following ...
- 4243: The Watergate Scandal
- ... for four years the White House had used the powers of the presidency to attack political enemies. They spied on and harassed anyone who did not agree with Nixon's policies. If a reporter wrote stories criticizing the White House they would be singled out for tax investigations. The White House also kept an "Enemies List" (Westerfled 43) of people that the presidents men wanted revenge on. After being fired, dean ...
- 4244: The Best Little Girl In The Wo
- ... then she is released to live at home. Four main characters are present in this book. They happen to be Kessa, Lila, Grace and Harold. The two protagonists are Kessa and Grace. Kessa is a short, frail, fifteen-year-old girl. Grace appears to be a middle-aged housewife. Grace is supportive of Kessa even through the tough times. The antagonists are Harold and Lila. Harold is Kessas father who ...
- 4245: Blaxploitation - Dolemite Vs The Mack
- ... filled with rhyming banter, stagy fight scenes, rampant sex, patchwork leisure suits and some of the most quotable lines in movie history." (Damiani). Dolemite has had a positive influence on rap music. "Rudy uses a short story-telling pattern in his films and it's rap artists who have kept those traditions alive. They (rap artists) have re-invented many of the figures who appeared in Blaxploitation films. Moore has had ...
- 4246: Beethoven 3
- ... eventually revealed in detail by powerful telescopes and by long-exposure photography as a vast galaxy of stars. So with Beethoven the finished idea was always there; his struggle was to find its form. Nothing short of certainty of this fact could have kept him going and to suppose that he threw down commonplaces in the hope of turning them into something is to be very naive indeed. Beethoven was like ...
- 4247: Beatles 2
- ... that came after their careers. Their success, I feel, was a good thing for all of Rock music. Whatever the reasons for their success, they will always be remembered as one of the biggest success stories in America (and they're not even American: go figure). . Works Cited Cohn, Nick. "The Fab Four", Life: Dec. 1995: pgs. 4-10. Collier, Chris. "The Breakup": 1970. Dowlding, William J. Beatlesongs. New York: Simar ...
- 4248: Beatlemania In The 1960s
- ... making records (in the present tense because they are still releasing records today). In the first Beatles fanzine in America, it shows how crazy America was at this time over the Beatles. It has life stories, full page pictures, how to do the Beatle dance, and the Beatle haircut. The big contest was to win a call from the Beatles. And at the end there was some wallet size photos for ...
- 4249: Art History Entombment And Adoration Of The Shepperds Painti
- ... a time much later in the bible when Christ was about to be buried after being taken down from the cross and brought to the tomb of Joseph of Arimathaea. Both paintings tell their respective stories more clearly by visualizing as much as possible. In Entombment for example, Cigoli displayed Joseph and Nicodemus holding a crown of thorns and nails in order to help us understand that this scene takes place ...
- 4250: Art Comparison Between Modigliani And Villon
- ... is their heavy application of paint. Although they both apply their colour liberally, Modigliani's strokes are thick, jagged, and for the most part random. His brushstrokes are also particularly long, whereas Villon's are short and brief. Modigliani uses monochromatic hues of red to create the prominent colour of the piece and like Villon, he has used a very vague background to express the importance of his sitter. Colour is ...
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