Alan Lomax

TV Series Review: Empire “Empire’s are not built in a day but this one was created in one season. Writer and Producer Lee Daniels has once again out done himself with his creativity and adaption of his new hit series Empire which first aired on FOX news last spring. Daniels directed and produced many other hit movies such as Precious and The Butler which won several awards for its outstanding production and outstanding performance by the cast. Empire, a new television series created by…

On January 7, 2015 Empire premiered on Fox. The show quickly gained a strong fan base. Not far into the first season Empire was ranked one of Fox’s number hit television shows. Empire is about the hip hop and entertainment company, Empire Entertainment, and the drama among the members of the founders’ family. It is about their fight for control of the company. It stars Terrence Howard as Lucious Lyon, who was a former drug dealer turned hip hop mogul and CEO of Empire. After Lucious learns that…

The Little Prince, by Antione de Saint Exupéry, isn't an ordinary story. In fact, it was tailored for the child inside of us, but even as grow-ups we can't seem to understand it fully. However, Saint Exupéry's use of Archetypal theory, the hero's journey in specific, assists the reader throughout the story and eventually reveals the meaning of it. There are conflicting opinions on who exactly goes on this heroic journey. In my opinion, it's only the the little prince: the pilot on the other…

Knowledge is what makes one thrive and grow, this is best done through the interaction of others. When the Little Prince and the pilot meet, the pilot had just crashed his plane in the Desert of Sahara. The Little Prince asks the pilot to draw him a sheep. Since the pilot had only drawn two drawings in his entire life (a boa constrictor from the outside and a boa constrictor from the inside), he was really confused. When the pilot drew the first sheep, the Little Prince rejected it saying the…

Alan Lomax once said, “ Blues has always been a state of being as well as a way of singing”. (Lomax IX) Blues music started in the African American community as a way of expressing the weights upon their hearts.These songs were their interpretation of their protest against discrimination. Blues is a genre of music that began around the nineteen hundreds, which have impact our world by giving a voice to the Afro Americans. The blues was a key factor in the intergration of whites and blacks in…

there were only four instruments to this music and when Razz’s Band changed their name to Jazz’s Band, Lieutenant Europe believed that is where the term ‘jazz’ came from. In a more historical perspective, the recording from Jelly Roll Morton and Alan Lomax talked about Morton’s transition from Blues music in Chicago to discovering Jazz in New Orleans. However, Morton had implied that New Orleans was a melting pot where many different people from Spanish, to French, to American, to creole and…

Blues is a simple and timeless American music. It is a folk music that collided with new media and commercialization. Blues influenced the development of many other styles of music, such as jazz, rock and roll, and soul. The roots of blues stem from Africa but this music was born in the United States. In 1865, the American Civil War freed American slaves and by 1900 the blues appeared in the south. Many of the newly freed slaves came from different tribes, but the blues gave them a new language…

Folk Music – Pete Seeger Many throughout the years have shaped folk music, however, one of the most well known folk singers was a man named Pete Seeger. As a multi-instrumentalist, Seeger played the Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin, Piano, Recorder, and the Tin Whistle. However, Seeger also did more than play music. He was also participated in activism of all kinds. He was born in New York City on May 3rd, 1919. He grew up in a household surrounded by music because both his mother and father were…

World War II was a time full of anger, sorrow, and pain for many between the years of 1939 and 1945. This war not only affected the European countries where the war was staged, but similarly many of the countries throughout the world. From the soldiers, doctors, and nurses on the front line to the Jewish communities who were carried to their death, the Second World War affected everyone. The role of music in this war, however, played a vital role. A role to which was, in many cases, a greater…

Casablanca, a world renown film with many Academy Awards, was filmed based off of the play Everybody Comes to Rick’s. Casablanca is a movie directed by Michael Curtiz and was released in 1943. Everybody Comes to Rick’s was a play written by Murray Burnette and Joan Alison, written 1940. On the cover of the movie poster, Burnette and Alison are not mentioned. This has become a very controversial topic whether or not Burnette has gotten enough credit. “The play was not produced when the Warner…