Michael Jackson's career took an even bigger turn when he started working with music producer Quincy Jones. Jones and Jackson met on the set of The Wiz, movie in which Michael started working on because his brothers and himself weren’t as popular as they used to be when they first signed up to Motown (Herbert, 2009). Michael wanted to be in the scene for a long time had no idea how to do it, so he contacted his new friend Quincy Jones for some advice. The Off the Wall Era (1978-1981) began with…
Jazz is America’s music. It is an elegant language, and all musicians use music to communicate with each other. Without planning ahead of time, they never played a tune with the exact same way twice, even though it was played by the same band or the same musician. This is called improvisation which is also the key element of jazz. Moreover, when people talk about jazz, it is more likely about the way that how the musicians play, not about what song that they play. In some sense, they can play…
Favorite word and why My favorite word is tintinnabulation. The word, while a mouthful, comes from my favorite poem of all time Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells." Residing in the first stanza, Poe created the word to describe the lingering sound a bell would make after it was struck. The entirety of the poem is based solely on onomatopoetic words relating to bells and the different sounds bells make depending on what material they are made out of. Poe uses different bells to represent different…
Repetition in Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates repetition in his poem Annabel Lee. He repeats with emphasis that Annabel Lee was beautiful and his. He repeats the phrase kingdom by the sea. Using the repetition, he creates tension in order to build for a better ending. All of this comes together to create a theme of obsession. He uses the phrase “my beautiful Annabel lee” throughout the poem stressing the fact that he was so madly in love with this woman. His repetition creates a…
the record for most weeks at Billboards number one spot (16) (knocked Elvis off the top). Also has songs tied for the second and third most weeks at the number one spot (14 and 13). They were a quartet. The group described above is known for their ballads and acapella harmony. Give up? The group consisted of two tenors, Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman, a baritone,…
“Robin Hood and the Three Squires” by Anonymous Summary In the poem “Robin Hood and the Three Squires” (n.d.) narrates the rescue mission of Robin Hood to the three squires who was held by the King because they killed the King’s deer. Robin Hood disguises himself as a beggar, tricks the sheriff with the help of his followers and he saves the three men from the death penalty in Nottingham. Argument “Robin Hood and Three Squires” (n.d.) portrays Robin Hood as an intelligent person. Analysis When…
I need a Title Destiny's Child were formed in Houston, Texas, in 1990, when original members Beyoncé Knowles and LaTavia Roberson were just nine years old; the two met at an audition and became friends, and Knowles' father Mathew set about developing an act based on their singing and rapping, taking their name from a passage in the Book of Isaiah. Beyoncé's cousin Kelendria "Kelly" Rowland joined the group in 1992, and shortly thereafter they landed an appearance on Star Search, where they…
Edgar Allan Poe is widely known for his fascination of writing about death within his poetry. In fact, he has even been quoted claiming that the death of a beautiful woman is the most poetic topic in the entire world. In his final poem, Annabel Lee, Poe writes about the death of his beautiful, young love in a kingdom by the sea. Within the poem, Poe’s use of a musical rhyming pattern, vivid imagery, and figurative language all come together to support the poem’s overall meaning. Outside factors…
This idea of the empowerment of women is not rare in the deep ocean of world literature; it can be seen in “The Ballad of Mulan”, written back in the 5th or 6th century. In the ballad, a girl named Mulan is worried because her father’s name appears in the drafting paper issued by the Khan. Given that her father was pretty old and she has no grown-up brothers, Mulan decides to take her father’s place…
“I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.” [“The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” 2-3] So goes the opening lines of Langston Hughes’ seminal poem ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’, and even a studious scholar may be inclined to believe him on a textual level. From the very roots of his African heritage to the streets of Harlem and New York from the 20’s to the 60’s, few writers have eclipsed Hughes’ remarkable portraits of black culture. Each of his poems…