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The form of “jazz dancing” has altered a lot over the last several decades, much like the rest of American Musical Theatre. Choreographers like Steven Hoggett (Once) and Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton) have taken their new conceptual ideas and formed them into dance styles that are now being seen in musicals around the world. However, the classic names of Broadway like Jerome Robbins, Michael Bennett, Bob Fosse and Agnes De Mille have left their mark on the world of Musical Theatre dance forever.…

Jess Anderson English X-8 Ms. Landon 18 October 2017 Short Story Paper “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin is a story about the Narrator’s younger brother Sonny’s struggles with drug addiction while growing up in Harlem. The story starts off with the narrator discovering that Sonny has been caught using drugs and imprisoned. After being released and returning to harlem Sonny begins to use the piano as a way to cope with his suffering. This causes a rift between the brothers because the Narrator…

In the article, “Cracking Code Purple” by Anna Ouchchy, the discussion of the author about breaking codes contributes to the readers understanding Grotjan skills. The way that the code breaking is described, it sounds like the code was very hard to understand and do. Because, if one got a code that is like thgnbe svsikdk it could mean thank you. With every code they were different and it must have been very very hard to understand. Therefore, the discussion of the author about code breaking…

A Raisin in the sun by Lorraine Hansberry. In this essay I’m going to talked about their characters and their American dreams. Do their dreams coming true? This play about the younger, a poor African American family living in south side of Chicago. They all have dreams. In this Novel, Mama Beneatha and walter are dreaming about a happy and lived better life in future. This whole family struggling against racism they are living in small apartment where they have two bedroom and one bathroom.…

Coleman was a jazz saxophone player who started his career in the 1950s by defying cultural, and musical standards. David Ake, composer, performer, and musicologist, analysed how Ornette Coleman created dramatic change in the jazz realm by defying the bebop era standards. Ake brings up many points of the standards that Coleman defied, such as: jazz virtuosity and masculinity, jazz performance and sex, and cultural perceptions of masculinity and race. David Ake points out how jazz music gave a…

Video Assignment: “The Merchants of Cool” Assignment What do these quotes mean? The comments from the video “The Merchants of Cool” summarize many of the important ideas expressed in the video. In your answers, include AT LEAST 2 sentences: one sentence that explains the quote and another sentence that expresses your opinion about the concept. 1) "The paradox of ‘cool hunting’ is that it kills what it finds." -Douglas Rushkoff • According to Douglas in the video the…

Laura Dachs Period 4 12-01-16 Raisin in the Sun It is only with the help of aspiring dreams that these various members of the Younger family are seen to battle on in a society bent on deferring or quashing them. By thinking big, they refuse to be the raisins in the sun of Langston Hughes’ poem (‘Montage of a Dream Deferred’).The hope to escape poverty is only given concrete assistance by the death of the father, but when most of this money is stolen the family comes together in a show of…

Response Essay #4: “The Blues” Deriving from the soulful spirituals and purposeful work songs the blues was born in the Deep South. African American sharecroppers developed a new outlet allowing them to channel their sorrows into something others enjoyed. Many musicians wishing to further distance themselves from the south and all the negative connotations associated with the area, decided to move northward. They themselves and their music were not always welcome as middle class African…

could be felt then, out in the dimly lit streets as it permeated the thick, humid southern air. The wild energy carried out into the night like a ghostly memory, bittersweet in its distant warmth. Music was the lifeblood of the city, the birthplace of jazz. New Orleans, 1953, nurturing the unique blend of rhythm and blues as it poured throughout the city. It held strong the tradition of New Orleans's nature, that of amalgamating and harmonizing. All intertwined in a web of deep roots, they…

Comparison of Swing and Bop Jazz Jazz music is one of the youngest genres of music that is played in this day and age. This genre of jazz encompasses several different styles such as bebop and swing. Both styles are different but they are still classified as jazz. Swing music is the older of the two styles jazz. Swing became very popular in the 1930’s to the mid 1940’s. Ironically, bebop’s inception came out from creative spins on the already popular swing music. Swing usually consisted of…