1974 in music

How Music Affects the Brain I. Speech Overview: A. General Goal: To inform. B. Specific Goal: By the end of my speech, my audience will learn a few things about what is happening in the brain when you are listening to music. II. Introduction: (This is where you start talking) A. Attention Grabber: The average American person listens to about four hours of music every day. B. Relevance Statement: Nearly everybody listens to music in one way or another, so it’s good to know how it is affecting…

“West Side Story” originally opened on September 26 1957 at the Winter garden Theatre. The production ran for 732 performances. The audience is shown a variety of different styles of music and dance. “West Side Story” is a reconstruction of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Leonard Bernstein’s first idea was to call his play East Side Story but this did not happen, as it was not relevant to the socio-political scheme of things. It introduced…

The two movies, “The Whole Gritty City”, and,” Ballou Majestic Knights Documentary” were both movies based on marching bands. They were both expansions on what went on while they were occupied in the band, and what struggles citizens had to go through everyday. Many of the people were faced with social situations, or home and environmental situations. The poverty exchanges in all of the bands, and how the bands were socially developed in different types of ways. The two movies were personally…

In this example, Louis Jordan eloquently showcased his ability to switch in and out of songful tones by utilizing his band members. The song initiated with Jordan telling a piece of a narrative, until he was interrupted by the line “Run Joe!” The line was frequently used throughout his narrative. Around the end of the verse, the whole band—including Jordan himself—repeated lines of the word “Loey.” The song’s layout evidently depicts the strategy of switching in and out of recitations; in this…

Bakan’s third proposition, which states that “sound are organized into music by people; Thus, music is a form of humanly organized sound”. I don’t believe that music should be defined as humanly organized sound since music means differently to different people. Music can be any kind of sound, as long as the one listening to it considers it as a form of music. First of all, I believe any sound that an animal makes alone is a form of music. In the book, Bakan thinks that only when a human being…

Queen Street West, The Sinners Choir performed in the genre of Americana, Free Jazz to an audience of around twenty-five people. Free Jazz was first introduced in the summer of 1960 when Saxophonist Ornette Coleman and his band recorded This is Our Music for Atlantic records. In the album, “Coleman reordered structural principles to offer the members of his group maximum melodic and rhythmic freedom,” (Anderson 2007, 1). He accomplished an improvised approach to the Jazz genre by providing the…

Knowles had several performers eat the same lunch at the same time in the same place every day over a span of several days and one called “Danger Music No. 2” where Dick Higgins, Knowles’s husband, receives a haircut from her and the sounds and actions of the audience take over while Higgins and Knowles remain silent. Audience members complained there was no music in the performance while other retorted that the sounds of the audience…

How does performing arts affect your mental state? Imagine if you had something to look forward to after school or work, a place where you can meet people and bond with them? Performing arts can affect you in many different ways. According to Juilette Siverstine, there are 5 different ways performing arts can benefit your child. In the article she talks about how performing arts can help your child to earn higher academic achievement, confidence and self representation skills, a medium for self…

Musical Stories Giving Comfort During Hardships Musical artists throughout the centuries sing about their hardships in music. The context of the song can be the theme of either life or death. Each song becomes literary by speaking to the depressed listener through emotions given by the lyrics or tone. Even if the song 's topic hasn 't been experienced by them directly. According to Levitin in the chapter explaining comfort songs, "The connection - even to a stranger - helps the process of…

photographers and their subjects allowed me to contribute more broadly to the museum. Although my internship is complete, I am still inspired by the museum’s mission to promote awareness and discussion of African American history through the use of fine art, music, film, and other…