...Billie Holiday is a famous jazz vocalist player, who was one the best Jazz vocalist of all times. She inspired and shared her emotions through her beautiful voice. She was born an only child, to a teen mother, but her father was considered to be Clarence Holiday, an amazing musician. She went through many difficulties in her life, but she managed to achieve her dreams and become a famous vocalist. I want to share with you her personal life journey, and musical career. Billie was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April, 7, 1915, originally born Eleanora Fagan. Billie changed her name from Eleanora when she found her love for music, and after one of her inspiration Billie Dove. Billie went to school in Baltimore where she lived most of her life, with her mother. Billie didn’t have a very stable childhood do to her mother struggling and leaving her with other people. Billie started skipping school, most likely do to her mother never being around. Billie and her mother were called to court over Billie skipping school, and she was sent to the House of God Shepherd for disobedient kids. Billie was sent back home from the House of God Shepherd do to sexual harassment in 1926. She then went to New York with her mother, and her singing career started kicking off....
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...From the video “The Story of Billie Holiday”, we learned a lot about the life story of Billie Holiday. She was one of most well-known American jazz singers of all time, and she did not start out to have a good childhood. Her mother was unmarried when she had Billie, and she did not receive a lot of parenting from her family. Billie got raped when she was ten years old by one of her neighbors, and got raped again when she was fourteen years old. However, the attacker only got sentenced in jail for three months. After she grew up, she first got hired by Jerry Preston because of her voice. Billie Holiday’s music was able to touch everybody, even though she didn’t receive any vocal education. She always sings her heart and soul into the songs, which makes it special. Billie even received a nickname “Lady Day” from her friend and music partner Lester Young. She became famous in Harlem within a short period of time. Back in the 1930’s the...
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...These Billie Holiday, a Jazz vocalist and a great person. The life of Billie Holiday was amazing throughout her years, but there were many obstacles she had to face in life. She was one of the most influential jazz singers to many people, she had an amazing career for many years, before she lost to the battle to addiction. Like everyone in life Billie Holiday did not have the most amazing life, but she found her way of life and some time got distracted from her purpose in life Early life April 7,1915, Eleanora Fagan was born, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Some sources say Baltimore, Maryland. Her birth certificate reportedly reads "Elinore Harris.") Singer, jazz vocalist. Spent most of her child life in baltimore, Maryland. Her father who people believe is Clarence Holiday, became a very successful jazz musician, playing with Fletcher Henderson. Unfortunately, Her dad wasn't really in her life. Her mother Sadie later married to Philip Gough in 1920. The Marriage didn't really work and they later let things end. That left Billie and her mother Sadie to struggle. (Article 1,paragraph5) states,...
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...Billie Holiday was one of America’s influential singers of time. When Billie Holiday was 9 years old she was sent to the House of the Good Shepherd a facility for troubled African-American girls.Billie Holiday met a man named Lester Young and Artie Shaw they were both part of a orchestra called the Count Basie’s Orchestra.She was a part of the Count Basie Orchestra for quite some time after a few years working with them she was forced to quit.In October 1945 Billie started taking drugs after the grief of losing her mother she even escalated her drug use to keep the pain away. During that time she was arrested too many times that made her go to a rehab center in New York City. To begin with, When Billie was 5 years old Billie’s mother Sadie...
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...From the year 1933 to the late 1940s, Billie Holiday sang of the heartaches and miseries African Americans faced and gave them a voice. Ms. Holiday, despite being taken over by her drug and alcohol addiction, was a prominent voice in the jazz industry due to her stylistic choices and unique voice. Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan, was born on April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was mainly raised by her young mother, Sarah Julia Fagan. Her father, although not present in her life, was believed to be successful jazz musician, Clarence Holiday. Unfortunately, Holiday was a rather mischievous child, and was sent to live in a facility for troubled African American girls called “House of Good Shepherd”, in January of 1925, at the age of 9. In August of that same year, Holiday was returned to her mother but sadly was sent to the “House of Good Shepherd” again in 1926 after being sexually assaulted....
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...Jazz is considered the original art form of the American self. One person who fits this form of expression is Billie Holiday. Holiday happens to be my best choice of a recognizable jazz artist. I chose Holiday because she could take the composition of a song given to her and turn it into well-known music standards. Holiday showed that she could be great at anything. She is inspiration for me to be great at anything I am involved in. The purpose of this paper is to give insight on Billie Holiday, songs she sung that established jazz standards, and the impact she made as a performer. Holiday experienced many trials throughout her lifetime that could have caused her to give up. However, she managed to display her improvisational genesis combined...
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...Billie Holiday Lindsey Sigel Considered to be one of the most influential jazz vocalists of all time, Billie Holiday had a tremendous life that was both commendable and filled with many hardships. Her singing expressed an incredible depth of emotion that spoke of hard times and injustice as well as triumph. Though her career was relatively short and often erratic, she left behind a body of work as great as any vocalist before or since. Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan in April of 1915. Her mother, at the time, was an 18- year-old house cleaner, and her father was 16-year-old jazz guitarist, Clarence Holiday. They weren’t married, or even living together. Billie was very independent while she lived in Baltimore....
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...Billie Holiday was born on April 7th, 1915. She claims that she was born in Baltimore, but a biographer named Donald Clarke noted that her birth records stated she was born at the Philadelphia General Hospital. She was the daughter of Clarence Holiday and Sadie Fagan. Her father abandoned her family when she was very young and refused to acknowledge the existence of Billie until after her first musical success. In her teenage years, Billie was known for dancing and singing along to some of the most popular record of the time, including Janice Joplin and Diana Ross. Later, her mother left her with some relatives and moved to New York. Billie claimed that while with her relatives, they abused her. In 1928, after little schooling and being mistreated, she left for New York to join her mother. This is where her musical career began....
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...see all of our imperfections. How can we say that all men are created equally in our Constitution when in the south, African-Americans were treated as second-class citizens? We had no rights and contrary to what was stated in our Constitution, we definitely weren’t freed. As a researcher and student, you cannot research this period of time without perusing the countless articles, news reels, pictures, and the written accounts given by people who actually participated in the marches and sit-ins. My research led me to numerous articles and videos of events that occurred during this time period. My heart ached as I watch people of all color being hosed down and attacked by dogs. I cried at the images of seeing young black men swinging from tree branches as onlookers stood there laughing and pointing at these “Strange Fruits”. I wondered what their crime was and why the crowd felt that it was okay for them to be punished in this way. I wondered if those people that witnessed or even participated in these lynching felt any remorse. Did those images of those swinging bodies haunt their dreams as often as they haunt mines today? Although I was task to only research the music during this era, I could not help but feel myself being drawn to the underlying history of this...
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...|Music Censorship | |Final Draft | | | | | | | |Emilee Westerfield | | | |University Composition and Communication II/COM156 | | | |11.18.2012 | | ...
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...Federal prison comparison Christopher Gault CJA/234 December 19, 2011 Rollin Cook Federal prison comparison In this paper describe the prisons that certain individuals were sent to. I will make sure I compare and contrast the similarities and differences between these individuals. The individuals I will be discussing are Martha Stewart, Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, Manuel Noriega, Timothy McVeigh, and Terry Nichols. All of these individuals were convicted of Federal crimes and sent to a Federal prison to serve their time. Martha Stewart was assigned to the minimum security women's prison in Alderson, W. Va., known as "Camp Cupcake." It is called that because it is a very low security prison and your time spent there should be easy. The West Virginia federal correctional facility is located in the hills of the Allegheny Mountains; this prison is more than 400 miles south of Stewart's Westport home. Martha Stewart wanted to go to a prison closer to her home so she could be close to her elderly mother. The low security facility was opened in 1927 as the first federal prison for women, Martha wasn’t the first big name to spend time at the facility. The prison once housed Billie Holiday, as well as Lynette Fromme and Sara Jane Moore. Both of these women tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford. The prison has no perimeter fence, and inmates can spend their free time playing volleyball and tennis or even doing aerobics. So that explains why they call it “Camp Cupcake”...
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...pseudonym name Linda Brent. It was under this name the text was published. In later years, her text has been viewed as an important text, speaking truth to the ears of sentimental novel readers in the north, and calling for action against the cruel institution of slavery. Employed as a teacher by Pace University in 1968, Jean Fagan Yellin wrote and published her dissertation. While re-reading Incidents in the 1970s as part of the project and to educate herself in the use of gender as a category of analysis, Yellin became interested in the question of the text's true authorship. Over the next six-years, Yellin found and used historical documents including the Amy Post papers at the University of Rochester (Post was a close friend of Jacobs), state and local historical societies, and the Horniblow and Norcum papers at the North Carolina state archives, to establish both that Harriet Jacobs was the true author of Incidents, and that the narrative was her autobiography. Her edition...
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...1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer-songwriter, dancer, businessman and philanthropist. Often referred to by the honorific nickname "King of Pop", or by his initials MJ,[3] Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became the dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It," "Billie Jean," and "Thriller," were credited with breaking down racial barriers and transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. The popularity of these videos helped to bring the then relatively new television channel MTV to fame. With videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" he continued to innovate the medium throughout the 1990s, as well as forging a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and video performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot, and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop, and rock artists. Jackson's 1982 album Thriller is the best-selling album...
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... Analysis………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……. 6-‐7 Product Analysis……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………. 7-‐9 Competitive Analysis……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 9-‐14 Market Analysis……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 14-‐15 Other Considerations (Past and Present Communications)…………………………………………………………………… 15-‐17 SWOT………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….… 18-‐19 Primary Research Considerations………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 19 Work Cited and Appendix……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 20-‐29 2 ID: 936605550 ID: 911484064 ID: 933327329 ID: 919538922 ID: 938345647 Company Analysis Company Mission and Philosophy Converse sneakers were originally created as a basketball shoe, and the Chuck Taylor All Star is now an iconic part of the fashion industry and...
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...IGOROTS * Home * IGOROT SONGS * IGOROT DANCE * IGOROT TRADITIONS * MONEY ON THE MOUNTAIN IGOROT TRADITIONS IGOROT TRADITIONS When we talk about Igorot identity and culture, we also have to consider the time. My point is that: what I am going to share in this article concerning the Igorot culture might not be the same practiced by the Igorots of today. It has made variations by the passing of time, which is also normally happening to many other cultures, but the main core of respect and reverence to ancestors and to those who had just passed is still there. The Igorot culture that I like to share is about our practices and beliefs during the "time of Death". Death is part of the cycle of life. Igorots practice this part of life cycle with a great meaning and importance. Before the advent of Christianity in the Igorotlandia, the Igorots or the people of the Cordilleran region in the Philippines were animist or pagans. Our reverence or the importance of giving honor to our ancestors is a part of our daily activities. We consider our ancestors still to be with us, only that they exist in another world or dimension. Whenever we have some special feasts (e.g., occasions during death, wedding, family gathering, etc.), when we undertake something special (like going somewhere to look for a job or during thanksgiving), we perform some special offer. We call this "Menpalti/ Menkanyaw", an act of butchering and offering animals. During these times we call them...
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