Gardener. Mentor. Friend. This is not a direct sequel to “Best Gift, Ever!”, but it almost is. I got so many positive comments and questions after that particular blog-post that I started to imagine my future celebrity book-signings, huge six-figure (even seven-figure) royalties. Why, I was even already on Oprah, to talk about my latest book and how well it’s doing on New York’s bestseller list. Dr. Phil was recommending it as well. Just before it became recommended reading for every child-psychology
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had their own take on music and have significantly aided the progression of music composition in the twentieth-century. These three composers are Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg and Claude Debussy. I will assess their compositional styles by investigating in to some of the structures they used and the meaning and thinking behind their movements and symphonies. Gustav Mahler (July, 1860) was a late-Romantic composer and was a huge influence on modern music both with his music and his conducting
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INFORMATION African Music Role of Music: African music is a vital part of everyday life in Africa. It is a part of religious ceremonies, festivals, and social rituals. Songs are used for the important events in a person's life (birth, coming of age, marriage, and death). They are used for curing the sick, bringing rain, and religious dances. Many Africans believe that music serves as a link with the spirit world. Everyone plays an active part in the musical life of the community. Music is ultimately
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Reflecting on American Music, Politics and Culture (5-7 pages) Identify and analyze a genre or subgenre of music (ex. hip hop, gansta rap), or musical phenomenon (ex. feminist music, anti-war music) that we’ve encountered in class and make a case for its contribution to American political culture. Has it had an identifiable social impact? If so, what has been the impact? Why is it significant? Discuss the music/phenomenon in terms of production quality, aesthetic values and strategies, relationship
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of bands such as The Black Keys, TV On the Radio, LCD Sound system and others. Many scholars have argued that WSO’s debut album “resets the boundaries of the art form” and “contains some of the best young players on the scene”. The band seemed to really connect with the audience, creating a familiar vibe with modern songs with such a balanced touch of salsa sound to grab
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Name: Jinhui Chen Course: Music 33 Date:12/14/14 Today, is another excited day for me because of that I can enjoy professor O’Neal’s concert again. But also I am sad because of that this is last concert I can enjoy for this semester. The weather was great, the mood was good, the journey toward to the concert was lovely. I was arrived just in time, lights goes little bite dark and I seated in the middle of the row to enjoy the music. The concert opened with the Our Man Higgins. This piece began
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known for her distinctive phrasing and expressive, sometimes melancholy voice.” Billie made many singles, including “ Miss Brown to you” and “what a little moonlight can do.” In that same year, she was with Duke Ellington in a film called Symphony in Black. She was now becoming a very big part of the
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1. African music was so highly integrated as a part of their everyday life that for almost every activity there was an appropriate music to accompany it. In other cases, music was also used as code to communicate messages between Africans during slavery. This makes it easier to describe how this music was able to survive and evolve in spite of the persecution and oppression of its people. 2. Through the 17th and 19th centuries, African music had already evolved highly into a complex art form
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Your Name: Assignment 1 – Introduction (World Music) MUNM 3113 World Music Dr. Christina Giacona cgiacona@ou.edu To complete this worksheet, provide your answers on this worksheet then submit the completed assignment in the “Intro World Music” dropbox on www.learn.ou.edu. NOTE: If a word count is given you can always go over the word count, just don’t go under! ------------------------------------------------- Materials ------------------------------------------------- To complete this assignment
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world. Fashion was changed dramatically thanks to jazz music. Since, jazz made people happy, it also made them feel rebellious. Which caused women and men to dress differently from how they did before. The Women’s Liberation Movement was helped by jazz music, because it provided means of rebellion against set standards of society. African Americans felt like they fit in better with society because jazz music was distinctly African American music. For the first time in history, the culture of a minority
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