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Starting in the 1950s as part of America’s counter culture, rock music swiftly rose in popularity with an appeal to youth, vitality, and revolt. Rock revolutionized music and spread it across cultures to involve anyone willing to listen, going beyond the artful form of music that had previously been reserved for the upper class. Music has taken many different forms over the years, created new factions, new sounds, but the undisputed claim to fame today as far as music is concerned lies with…

different instruments, he knew he had found the one when he excelled in playing the cornet. Louis Armstrong became very famous. He was said to be the most famous man in his time era. What he did was he popularized jazz, by playing it in a different kind of way. He had his…

significance of the “cultural explosion in Harlem during the 1920’s” justifies the period’s name as “the Harlem Renaissance”. They also provide historical information regarding the cotton club and how it featured African American musicians as well as jazz and blues. Moreover, since the piece is a periodical, the intended audience would be those who are subscribed to the journal and it is presented in an enthusiastic…

“To those who understand, no explanation needed. To those who do not, no explanation possible.” - Unknown source. From the battlefields across the globe to the football fields in our backyards, color guard has an incredible and colorful history that continues to flourish and grow with changing times. Color guard has very cut and dried origins. However, the point when it began to morph into the color guard we have today does not have a definite date or any single individual credited with…

Sh-boom by the chords is a doo- wop of rhythm and blues. This song is sing by 4 people who are one lead singer and tree vocal accompaniment. This song is about a love story, whole music is in a brisk mood. The lead singer was sing the whole story and accompany were flow the lead singer, deeper voice and with the rhythm of doo and sh- boom. However the main musical instrument is guitar. Shake rattle and roll by Jor Tumer is type of rock and roll. Whole music is solo by a male singer who is Jor…

Jazz has been an integral genre for African Americans to utilize as their outlet to make a debut in the music world as well as a way to deal with oppression during their times. Google defines jazz as “a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century” Although in our contemporary society jazz singers aspire to relay their message, not just oppression, but leave their…

John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was born in South Carolina in 1917 and died in 1993. He was a jazz trumpet player, bandleader and composer. He received a music scholarship to the Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina. He was one of the pioneers in bebop and had performed in Minton’s Playhouse and Monroe’s Uptown House. He worked with Charlie Parker in 1945, and performed in New York and Los Angeles. After the Los Angeles performance in December 1945, Gillespie returned to New York and Parker…

Introduction “Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.” (Miles Davis NYC, 1959) Jazz music was brought to America by African Americans in the early 1900s. This genre of music is a hybrid between European-Western Music, African Music and culture, and later American Music. Jazz music has similar harmonic and orchestrational techniques to European music, which is where classical music originated. African music gave jazz its rhythmic feel, generally drumming, and emotion.…

songs written by Scott Joplin and is part of a music style known as ragtime. II. Central Part of Lesson (sequential instructional procedures) Ragtime (Class discussion) Ragtime is primarily a solo piano style and was the immediate precursor to jazz. 1. It originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in St. Louis. 2. It consists of each hand doing something different:…

My first band concert Chapter One My concert I am having a band concert tonight. Yesterday I practiced at E.B Stillman and I am nervous. The stage is so big and I get to sit up there with all the other band players. I play the flute, yes I am a flutist. There are flutes, clarinets, trumpets, trombones, tubas, french horns, snare drums, oboes, a xylophone, and a big drum. I am a nine year old fifth grader. Some little kids might think a flute of a toy flute. But no, this is what a real deal…