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    Rene Rosales Literary Heritage Essay 2 November 24, 2017 Sonny’s Blues: Behind the Notes Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin tells the story of brothers and their attempt to make it out of a situation they feel trapped in. The story is told through a narrator that tells the story of his own struggles, but also tells us of his brother Sonny. Sonny is addicted to drugs and is trying to become a better person. Through this story, James Baldwin focuses on the impacts drugs have on poor communities like…

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    his disastrous performance is the epitome of irony. As Hoodie Allen attempted to rap about “living life without responsibility” and his many tales of lust and loss, I counted the number of people sitting with me on the upper balcony at the House of Blues. There’s 46 of us. 46 more than should actually have to suffer through this performance. Hoodie Allen made a wonderful first impression. I could feel his energy and excitement as he strutted onto the stage. He drew in the thirty or so screaming…

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    Sonny’s Blue and How it feels to be Colored Me Music plays a prominent role in both “Sonny’s Blues” and “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” because it allowed them to find their freedom. During “Sonny’s Blues”, Sonny takes all the hurt and misery that he went through, and displayed it through the art of music. Zora in “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” expresses her freedom by listening to jazz music to escape her reality. Music saved Sonny’s life because he saw it as a breakthrough from all the pain…

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    The Blues in Sonny’s Life When it comes to blues music we relate it to the sorrow, or hardships that the musician is going through. Blues music reflects on the dark times in the musician’s life. From reading the brief bio on James Baldwin we can see that his life could be a typical blues song. Through his character Sonny the blues is portrayed through Sonny’s life and music. In James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” we see several examples of symbolism, but the two that enriches the story the…

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    Music Festival Case Study

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    1.0 INTRODUCTION Music festival is currently one of common activities enjoyed by everyone across generation and inspires the young generation in creating new components to enliven music industry that have existed since the evolution of music industry since 1850 which then brought drastic change to music market. This report includes several important components which explain in details about case study of successfully organizing and setting up Music Festival in Liverpool, North West of England.…

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    The song “Paradise” is originally an English pop song by Coldplay, a British rock band. It was released on 12th September 2011 while the cover version of this song, “Peponi” was released 3 years later on 9th January 2012 by a crossover band - The Piano Guys. The Piano Guys had included some African folk-like elements into the original version of “Paradise” by adding some African traditional instruments, costumes and the language. I observed that The Piano Guys and Alex Boye have utilized their…

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    My Guitar Early one Christmas morning in 1976 towards the end of Elvis’s life, career, I was gifted my very first acoustic guitar. Maybe it was because I was born in Tupelo, Mississippi some thirty-six years after Elvis Presley, that made me suited to play and sing with a guitar. Or perhaps because I was born on the same day as the legendary Johnny Cash, exactly thirty- nine years later, to the day, that I would inherit the intense desire to play, write, and sing with a guitar. After an…

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    “Almost Home” Some days, dreaming of the past is easier than living in the present. “Almost Home” is co-written and recorded by American country music singer Craig Morgan. This was the first top ten hit on the US country music charts for Morgan. He also received a Song of the Year award and earned a Songwriter’s Achievement Award from the Nashville Songwriters' Association International. “Almost Home” explores the struggles of homelessness, the complexities that life brings us, and the freedom…

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    Norman Greenbaum Norman Greenbaum is best known for his song, “Spirit in the Sky” the song was written and released in 1969 and reached number three on the top 100 rock songs in the year of 1970. Norman Greenbaum wrote many songs but “Spirit in the Sky” was the most popular off all, being his first and only hit throughout the decades. Norman Greenbaum’s album is also named spirit in the sky, it was released after the hit single “Spirit in the Sky”. The album included songs such as “Canned Ham”…

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    I Love College Analysis

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    Asher roth song “ I Love College” reflects the culture of the 2000S as a college anthem. The song is categorized through its melody , texture, and its word-music relationships. The key instruments used in the song are a drum and a gutier, those instruments are really used in pop, country, and rock music.The way asher roth has the guitar playing out throughout the whole song with the amazing beat is wonderfully laid out it's a catching tune that mostly everybody can sing along too, he put so…

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