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1.0 INTRODUCTION Music festival is currently one of common activities enjoyed by everyone across generation and inspires the young generation in creating new components to enliven music industry that have existed since the evolution of music industry since 1850 which then brought drastic change to music market. This report includes several important components which explain in details about case study of successfully organizing and setting up Music Festival in Liverpool, North West of England.…

My Guitar Early one Christmas morning in 1976 towards the end of Elvis’s life, career, I was gifted my very first acoustic guitar. Maybe it was because I was born in Tupelo, Mississippi some thirty-six years after Elvis Presley, that made me suited to play and sing with a guitar. Or perhaps because I was born on the same day as the legendary Johnny Cash, exactly thirty- nine years later, to the day, that I would inherit the intense desire to play, write, and sing with a guitar. After an…

The aesthetic desires which Jennings distinguish operating in the visual art, both of Cezanne and of the Chinese painter allow her to reconstruct a sense of their original artistic meanings and in doing so to expand her own aesthetic perspective, always drawing attention to the “human touch,” The final poem “Night Concert at Taormina,” in the series of six poems relate to human touch” to various forms of aesthetic expression, accurately defines the setting and the inspiring visual and auditory…

Music is an art than can connect us all, the topic I choose to do my interviews on was music and how race plays a part into the music we listen to today. In many people’s lives music is a constant, they are always listening to it. That’s why corporations like Spotify and ITunes exist, they are capitalizing on the easy access of music from all different genres. Music is a way in which artists can share their experiences and life troubles without having to speak about them, rather they can just…

Texas State Jazz Ensemble: Special Guess Steve Houghton- Music Critique The Texas State Jazz ensemble, with special guest drummer Steve Houghton, was filled with an uplifting set list. A mixture of trumpets, drums, piano, saxophones, bass, guitar, and trombones played harmoniously with distinct soloist for each song. The Texas State Jazz ensemble did a wonderful job, especially their solo performers. Steve Houghton was also quite fantastic, living up to his name. The overall experience was very…

being encouraged by their slave traders, the roots of African music trace back to the 1600’s where slaves began singing and dancing to help maintain their physical condition and keep them from despair and suicide (Collier: The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz). These experiences would come to shape customs of resilience, with the African American musical culture affirming this. Beginning with the development of Blues and Ragtime, this paper will discuss the…

strong history of Louisiana to generate a sense of pride and dignity throughout her audience. Louisiana is a state of great integrity. Although it’s history begins with slavery, African American culture bloomed and expanded throughout the country. From jazz to the spicy Cajun food, the culture of Louisiana has thrived. Through tribulations throughout history caused by great oppression and violent nature disasters in the present day, Louisiana remains strong. Although there are clips of…

Music is the primary sound that makes up the soundscape of my bedroom. The only time music is not being played inside my room is when I am sleeping. Only during this time is when the other sounds that are a part of the soundscape are able to be heard clearly. I am unable to stand silence, it causes me to become anxious, so I always feel like I must fill the silence with music. When I walk to class I listen to music, when I wait for class I watch television shows, and when I work on art I always…

A term that is widely used by many people in the world today, but is highly inaccurate, is the phrase “Caribbean/Latin Music”. The Caribbean is a large part of the world with many island nations within it, and within these island nations there are even more music genres. When someone says “Caribbean Music,” it is impossible to tell if they are talking about Merengue from the Dominican Republic, Ska from Jamaica, Salsa from Cuba, Reggaeton from Puerto Rico, or the many other types of music genres…

both plena music and jazz are very similar. Being that both genres stem from African music, it should be no surprise that they share qualities. While plena music is a national treasure to Puerto Rico, we can certainly say the same about Jazz in America. Both genres also have declined from the previous prominence as salsa has come forward to take the place of plena music, while genres like r&b and hip-hop have taken the place of jazz. Originally, neither plena music nor jazz were accepted by the…