American record producers

I manipulated the air so I cleared the table and collided with Stefan. "YOU'RE DEAD STEFAN!" I screamed. We hit the ground and rolled. "What the hell is your problem? Why the hell would you actually want to go to school? Now Damon's making me go!" I yelled, still wrestling with him. Arms wrapped around my waist and I was yanked off of Stefan. I glared up at Damon. "Let me go!" I yelled. Within the blink of an eye, I was at the other side of the room and Damon was letting me go.…

“R”Rovers are an important part of our lives. They allow us to see beyond our earth. We made our rovers to help us understand the scientific process and how to create an experiment. Making this rover also refreshed our memory of the concept of elastic energy. Not to rub it in your face, but EarthToy Designs enlisted in our help to design this rover, too. They asked us to make a rover that can be adjusted to go different distances. Of course, we have to think about the environment while making…

interaction with the audience is something that really makes me feel alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.”~Alicia keys. Alicia keys cook is best known for “alicia keys. She is an american singer, songwriter, Record producer and actress. She has impacted people through her music, also due to her to her lyrics it can be very inspirational.She is a co- founder of keep a child alive, which is an organization that helps provide for the…

emerged out of Memphis, TN. During the 1950s and 1960s a struggle, almost war, between African Americans and Caucasians aroused in the United States. The Civil Rights Movement caused tension throughout the nation. Despite all the confusion, on the corner of East McLemore Avenue and College Street, an old movie theater that later became Satellite Record Store flourished into what we know today as Stax Records, or Soulsville. Soulsville was an incredible little recording studio on the corner that…

Detour Detour is a 1945 film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. The film starts off by a piano player Al Roberts drinking coffee at a diner while hitchhiking east from California and song plays on the jukebox which reminds him of his former life in New York City. In the flashback, we learn that Al was bitter about his talent going to waste in a cheap nightclub and so was his girlfriend, so she decided to seek fame in Hollywood, leaving him behind. Later, he decides…

new genres are birthed and begin to gain popularity daily, most without any trace of a record label to their names. The term “Indie used to mean without a record deal, all by themselves”, but was stolen by record companies and turned into a synonym for alternative. However, thanks to the internet, the common musician can begin to reclaim the “Indie” term. The driving force behind this push for abandoning record labels is the internet’s universal…

way people consume music today. With the new ability of obtaining music for free, whether if it is legally or illegally through numerous file sharing sites, record labels have been put in a special situation where they have to come up with new ways to gain profit beyond record sales, their main source of profit in the past. In a new type of record deal, the 360 Deal, the hassle of investing millions of dollars into an musician’s career to get a mediocre return in today’s music business has a…

I learned about the importance of Stax Records, how it impacted the community around the people of Memphis, TN and how Stax Records was not just another business to be run for profit. But, a family of intense individuals who loved making music, despite the color of their skin. I also found out, the doors were always open to the people…

Music has become increasingly available, beginning with the rapid distribution of sheet music to the invention of the record player to having any song in the world available from an online streaming service. Music has become a daily part of people’s lives, whether an individual is consciously aware of it or not. Music can be heard being played in the background of a commercial, out loud on the speakers at a sporting event, or played on the radio while driving in ones’ car. The prior…

many walks of like. It is so awesome to hear how these people, “with the key word being people” made wonderful music together in Stax and overlooked the color barrier. Stax Records is critical to the development of American music history. The legacy of Stax Records is unique, it developed more than half a century of records. While segregation was supported in the South during Stax’s formative years in the 1960s.Stax was one of the most successfully integrated companies in the country with…