style of folk music” and then combining it to a “prominent rock & roll backbeat” (Pop/Rock, n.d.). Some of the more distinct parts of folk-rock “is the chiming, ringing guitar hooks, coupled with clear vocal harmonies” (Pop/Rock, n.d.). Therefore most folk/rock is primarily composed of release patterns. During the 1950s and ’60s, American folk music became more and more popular (Holden, 2007). It was inevitable that folk music would become intersected with more mainstream styles of music like pop and
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Nicole Modak Music 100 September 11, 2012 Music Genealogy As a child I remember listening to the typical children’s music. Barney was my favorite television show, so I can still remember the songs that Barney used to sing such as The Clean Up Song. My parents also exposed me to the types of music they enjoyed listening to. My mother loves artists such as Babyface and Toni Braxton. It was our tradition to clean the house while playing music. We would sing and dance to my mom’s favorite songs
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Music, know one really knows how it affects us in life. It affected me since the first time I ever touched a key on a piano, moved a slide on a trombone, strummed a string on a guitar and heard the sound of a drum after a quick hit. Last year in October The University of Memphis held a march with the mighty sound of the south and invited high schoolers to go play and march with them on the field. The morning I had to wake up super early which was kinda different from my normal Saturdays of sleeping
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I did. My day-to-day life in Belize was the complete opposite life I have in the United States. I usually stay up late and wake up late, sometimes as late as noon. In Belize, I woke up as early as 5:15 a.m. and went to sleep around 10 p.m. My day-to-day life here at home is centered around what I like to do – write/record music, lift weights, and hangout with my friends. In Belize, I was learning and growing as a person every single day. Living in Belize was completely outside of my comfort zone
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school? If so, how? I am in high school now (9th grade) and a lot has changed over the years. I had friends that I was forced to hang out with and some that just grew with me and now we are in same school or classes. 2. Tell about a time when your friends’ opinions were different than your parents’ and how you felt about it. There have been a lot of times where my friends made fun of me because of my parent’s decision to not allow me to do specific things. I had a time where my mother told
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crying: “I would have told you I was a musician, a poet, an artist,… a woman, a lesbian, and a Jew”. That morning, stepped out of the shower in her Brooklyn apartment to watch the second plane barrel into the South Tower. She confess: “In that moment, the world as I had known it was redefined. Weeks ago all I could think of was how to write a good rap… Now is the time to talk with God about my soul and find the meaning of the life because everything has changed. Yes, everything has changed. This refrain
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crying: “I would have told you I was a musician, a poet, an artist,… a woman, a lesbian, and a Jew”. That morning, stepped out of the shower in her Brooklyn apartment to watch the second plane barrel into the South Tower. She confess: “In that moment, the world as I had known it was redefined. Weeks ago all I could think of was how to write a good rap… Now is the time to talk with God about my soul and find the meaning of the life because everything has changed. Yes, everything has changed. This refrain
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Gravette 5th grade yearbook is an object from my childhood that holds special significance to me. Most of my young years in school were at the Gravette Elementary School. I made lasting friendships while attending school in this small town. I loved living in Gravette. The town reminded me of something out of a western movie. The teachers were wonderful and I really enjoyed getting up and going to school. When I was in the 5th grade my parents informed me that we were moving to Little Rock
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and Response Throughout my life I have encountered numerous things and witnessed a few outstanding events, but the one I will focus on is a very special person who’s wisdom has got me this far. If it were not for teachers such as music teachers and their talented gift of allowing every student, that have passed through their classroom, to learn, to love and experience music and making music in those years of their childhood, I would not be where I am today. I knew music but this one person enlightened
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Bobbing my head to what I used to have thought was good and intriguing music, I looked outside the clear bus window. My red brick 1980s house loomed into view. The bus stopped, and I stood up, walking through the crowded isle filled with bodies just like mine. I nearly fell down the black steps, and almost landed in the dirt with my face. Brushing myself off from the two-second rush of adrenaline, I turned left and crossed in front of the canary-yellow colored school bus. I crossed the murky-green
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