listened to music has evolved since its implementation in American culture. First, people mainly performed music until the Great Depression struck and music’s focus shifted towards recorded sound. Musical pioneers, such as John Phillip Sousa, were upset at this shift and rightly so as it threatened artists’ passions and livelihood. But what the public desires will ultimately drown out old voices and new and more sophisticated technology will prevail. Eventually, the radio and recorded music were the
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Black Swan Black Swan is a movie about a girl who is playing the part of the swan queen in the interpretation of Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. She needs the man to fall in love with her in order to break the spell, but he falls in love with the wrong girl, and so she killed herself. In this movie every piece of music intensifies each of the 27 scenes, without the music the movie is not perceived the same way. Such as every time the daughter, Nina is in interaction with her mother there
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Introduction to World Music Professor Glenn McMillan 1003 M Room gmac@mec.cuny.edu Office Hours Appointments Only 718 270 4929 Music 100 Please leave email Introduction to World Music Syllabus-Spring 2013 This course is an introduction to music and to the musical mechanics from a global perspective. There will be three aims: • to increase the students understanding of music, including its elements, structures
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attention because it was made to make music by many different bars hitting each other. The Cavalcade sculpture made by Wendell Castle is mahogany, lacewood, poplar, cooper, and gold leaf. The dimensions are 53 ½ by 21 ¼ by 17 1/2. This was made in 1989. There are many different shapes that has it owns color and identity. It wasn’t supposed to be symmetric because it makes a unique attack on gravity. The base of this piece is a blue green color and then a black longer piece that looks like it could
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enough seats so that no one would have to involuntarily stand. People kept coming and going, but the sensation did not change and the music stayed the same. The diversity of the audience was what made the café feel “authentic” as two audience described. Young, middle-aged, old, Black, White, Brown, Asian, American, non-American, etc. were all enjoying the same music, drinking the same coffee. Nodding, tapping on their coffee cups, humming
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moral origins. Father John Divine and mother Mary Waymon were both evangelical preachers in the town of Tryon, North Carolina and deeply involved in the service music of their Methodist church. “African-American spiritual and gospel music surrounded Eunice [Simone] from birth” and from a very early age Simone “displayed a natural ability for music.” (Freyermuth, pg.1) At just “two and a half [years old] her parents found Eunice sitting at their family
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to read and process information as well as give your response and opinion on the matter. This can also be very influential either way and can sway consumers decisions on things such as movies, products, decisions, electronic devices, clothes even music. 2. What are the greatest benefits of social media for individuals and society? The greatest benefits of social media are the fact that everyone stays up to date on news and important things going on in the world as well as keeping people
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over the world and they all strive to succeed. So is advertising their music the key to their If an artist advertizes their music they can gain several oppertunities to spread their music. Spreading their music can result in more fans. For instance, source 3 states "the Black Eyed Peas, focuses on exposure before a paycheck" meaning they worked hard on advertising their band before worying on what they will gain. The Black Eyed Peas method "paid off" as they ended up investing more by marketing
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Introduction Ray Charles is considered a musical genius in many different fields. He has a large success in pop, jazz, blues, country, and R&B. Charles is also known as an inventor of soul music. Background In the first golden age of rock and roll they only called one man The Genius, and that was none other than Ray Charles. Born in Albany, Georgia, throughout the depression, and blind by the age of seven, Ray Charles Robinson absolutely had the deck stacked against him from the earliest
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To Consider 1. Music is universal in the sense that music is heard everywhere, all around the world there is music. Music is not a universal language because it does not follow the strict rules that languages follow when carrying certain meanings. Music is not as black and white as language, different people from different cultures might interpret different feelings and emotions from a piece of music then someone from some where across the globe. 2. When you classify music as “classical”, “folk”
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