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1940’s in the United States. It was influenced by country and blues music that started making a new sound using electric guitars and a balanced drum beat, which was a faster beat and rhythm instead of a slow one. Rock music also produced greatly on other genres like electric blues and folk. By the late 60’s mentioned as the golden age or the classic rock period rock music sure genres had become known like country rock, jazz rock, blues rock, raga rock, and folk rock.…

After going through all the songs in this module, I can see some similarities in all of them. But the only one thing am going to talk about is the repetition in some of the songs in Jazz, Gospel songs, Blues, and Hip-hop. Also, they were songs of war or civil right movement. Let me start with “This Little Light of Mine” in Gospel music. People sang this song and other spirituals song during the Civil Rights Movement as a way of expressing unity as they fought for equal rights and freedom for…

“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master” (Ellington, 2017). The 1960’s were a decade of cultural calamity which with saw the premature political gripes of racial discrimination and ethnic values. Witnessing the implications of constitutional instability through the social revolution, songs of social commentary demonstrated expressionism of outdated morals through emphasis of lyrical progression. While various genres mirror the social ideals of an artist’s philosophies; as…

Introduction For many centuries, the theory that music can induce and express emotion within a person has been researched and examined with musicologists discovering that it is capable of having a convincing impact on emotional processes (Brooks, 2015). With regard to such theories, this research paper will attempt to provide further contextual information around the potential effects of music variables on physical performance in both professional and recreational athletes. Costas I.…

Into The Great Wide Open Imagine big hills,Hollywood sign, living alone at 18 and going on stage to sing! Eddie in “Into the great wide open” moved to Hollywood. Eddie just graduated high school and moved to Hollywood to pursue is dreams and find a girl. Eddie first got a job and a tattoo and he’s going for his shot to be famous. In the narrative poem “ Into the Great Wide Open” by Tom Petty tells a story of the life of a rising rock star using a shifting tone and is told in a realistic nature.…

The concert that I attended was Sac State Jazz Combo with the guest artist “The Kandinsky Effect”, on Tuesday October 13, 2015 at 8:00 pm. in the Capistrano Concert Hall. At the beginning of the concert the Sacramento State Jazz combo played a couple songs. In this group there were many performers with different instruments: Domenic Dalpez (baritone saxophone) , Jesse Crosson (trombone) , Aaron Smith (trumpet) , Randy Sandoli (piano) , Molly Redfield (bass) , Devan Kortan (guitar) , and Cameron…

Very few famous performers nowadays can integrate showmanship with their music. In the 70’s a musical group by the name of Parliament took the music world by storm with their out of this world appearance and their own rendition of Funk music. Parliament was one of the key pieces in the development of funk music and modern music as well. They created what we know as P-Funk today that was a key element of the foundation of Hip-Hop. For my concert report I analyzed Parliament’s 1976 The MotherShip…

Bunny Briggs always said that he was born dancing and “When [he] finally faced the world [his] legs were kickin’. Bunny was a prodigy who performed all over Harlem then on Television and Broadway. He started dancing after seeing his aunt perform with Bill Robinson. He was able to reproduce the steps that Robinson had performed with ease. Bunny said he “couldn't believe how graceful [Robinson] was, and how calm. To move like that and smile. That's when [Bunny] decided.” He began performing with…

It is the celebration of the unique traditional culture and the heritage of New Orleans and Louisiana both country. The festival has 12 different stages of different lovable music like- jazz, rock, folk, gospel, Latin, funk, R&B, African, blues, Caribbean, Cajun, and many more music types. This jazz Fest is usually held at the ‘Fair Grounds Race Course’, New Orleans. In this Heritage celebration, all the music artists from New Orleans and Louisiana join. Some other internationally renowned…

When Colden “Cole” Rainey Swindell was young, he never dreamed of being a famous country artist. He wanted to play sports. As he grew older, he attended Georgia Southern University. He majored in marketing. At a party one night, someone was playing a guitar and Cole decided to sing. His friend said, “You are very good at singing.” He took it seriously and he decided to start his music career by selling merchandise for his friend Luke Bryan. He was influenced by Bryan and moved to…