Blue Dog Coalition

Sometimes I envy my parents, because they had the good fortune to live through the richest musical eras: the sixties’, seventies’ eighties’, and nineties’. During the time my parents were in college and dating, they went to Air Supply, Bee Gees and ABBA concerts together. I remember that the first music I ever heard was my mother’s collection of vinyl records and cd’s. I grew up listening to Robert Plant, Axl Rose and Freddie Mercury’s God-like vocals, Led Zeppelin’s head-scratching lyrics,…

Parker Chinn Class 708 Now and Always It’s mine. It suits me. Parker. It reminds me of some of the things I like to do, writing music, and acting. This is because I was named after famous jazz musician: Charlie Parker! I was also named after actress: Parker Posey! This makes me feel special because I can look up to these people. But writing music and acting aren’t the only things I like to do! I also like to bake, teach, read, write, and paint! To me, my name means smooth jazz on…

The music industry is one of the largest industries in the world. From the rawness of hip hop and the sensual sounds of R&B. To the funky and upbeat sounds of pop and the toe tapping rhythm of country. Music plays a big part in everyone’s life. Everything you see or hear is considered music, because music is life. In the past, women haven’t always been very big in this industry, but today that has officially changed. No matter what genre of music you listen to, women are taking over the music…

Boston Globe Review Jacqueline Novogratz’s memoir, The Blue Sweater, is eye opening, inspiring and thought provoking. Written and published in 2009, the book quickly grew in popularity and instantly became a New York Times Bestseller. It begins with an embarrassing memory from high school, where the author, Jacqueline Novogratz, is harassed for the shrinking blue sweater that her uncle had given her. That same day, she immediately goes home, boxes up the sweater and donates it to goodwill,…

Their soul and rhythm captivated many whites that even their Masters would make them play for them. Fredrick Douglas through his experiences wrote that Slave-owners expected them to sing while they were working. There were many variations of slave songs. There were field hollers, usually sung by themselves. Then there were work songs, it was sung by a group of slaves working together. (Digital) Slaves used singing to express their beliefs and views towards each other. Most of the slaves relied…

On Wednesday, September 20th at 7pm, I attended a music jazz concert at Las Hadas in Reseda, CA. It was inside of a vintage mexican restaurant, though to me it kind of looked like a lounge. In the audience, a few people were dressed in formal attire but majority of people were dressed in casual attire. While the band would play, couples would get up spontaneously to dance. On the other hand, the instrumentalist were set up like an orchestra but located in the direct center of the restaurant with…

Konstantin Dimopoulos’ “The Blue Trees” is what is known as environmental art. Like “land art” or “earthworks”, environmental art makes use of nature to create nondestructive art. “The Blue Trees” is at first a little underwhelming, after all, at its core it is literally just a tree painted blue. But as I have come to understand, it is actually an ongoing project with an important message. The formal elements of “The Blue Trees” did not seem to be too complex. The color used to paint the trees…

The colors present on the album are very dull and quite sobering. These colors were intended to represent the emotions of Szymon himself. On the cover he is depicted atop a grey rocky surface, surrounded by a beige border, in front of a robin’s egg blue square. All of these colors fail to catch the eye and do not garner our attention whatsoever due to their general lifelessness. This lack of vibrance of the album artwork shows Szymon’s view of the world during the time he created this album. He…

American is an amalgam of American folk music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States, specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influences. Americana as a radio format developed during the 1990s as a reaction to the highly polished sound that defined the mainstream music of that decade. The AMA grew out of the format as an effort to bring all…

can remember some of the music being played by a few. They seem to be household names and more places than St. Louis. These three people are BB King, Muddy Waters and Bessie Smith. All from the state of Mississippi. BB King, is still playing the blues even though he’s past the age of 87. His birth given name is Riley B. King. In 1949 he began to be a well know musician, although he got signed to a company by the name of RPM records. So anxious and excited about music and entertainment, BB King…