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Over the span of 50 plus years in the music industry, Bob Dylan’s music has inspired individuals with his unique ability to tell a story with his songs. Each specific song had a message that he wanted to garner the attention for social change within the world. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dylan who had been become “born-again” released several albums together that went away from his music speaking of social change to that of Christian music. Many critics didn’t understand why he…

Texas State Jazz Ensemble: Special Guess Steve Houghton- Music Critique The Texas State Jazz ensemble, with special guest drummer Steve Houghton, was filled with an uplifting set list. A mixture of trumpets, drums, piano, saxophones, bass, guitar, and trombones played harmoniously with distinct soloist for each song. The Texas State Jazz ensemble did a wonderful job, especially their solo performers. Steve Houghton was also quite fantastic, living up to his name. The overall experience was very…

condition and keep them from despair and suicide (Collier: The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz). These experiences would come to shape customs of resilience, with the African American musical culture affirming this. Beginning with the development of Blues and Ragtime, this paper will discuss the…

Music is the primary sound that makes up the soundscape of my bedroom. The only time music is not being played inside my room is when I am sleeping. Only during this time is when the other sounds that are a part of the soundscape are able to be heard clearly. I am unable to stand silence, it causes me to become anxious, so I always feel like I must fill the silence with music. When I walk to class I listen to music, when I wait for class I watch television shows, and when I work on art I always…

House of Blues, A Place Where Good Eats and Good Beats Come Together House of Blues first opened in Cambridge, MA in 1992. It began as a concert venue with an original folk art setting, live music and delta-inspired cuisine (House of Blues), with locations in California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas. The House of Blues in Orlando, FL offers a wide variety of food, live music, and a welcoming setting with a tad of a folk influence. House of Blues Orlando…

do not normally listen to the Blues Brothers or other songs from blues musicians. I normally do not listen to this type of music because I have always thought of it as very slow and too different to enjoy the songs from a time period very different than mine. Another reason I prefer not to listen to blues music is because I never had much access to it while growing up. It is difficult to develop an appreciation for music that has not been exposed to you. Most blues songs I have listened to…

Salvador Dali in 1956, is an oil on canvas painting created to express the dynamic combination and complexity of stillness and motion that goes almost unnoticed every day. Viewers are drawn in to observe the masterpiece initially by the bright red, mellow blue, and vibrant red colors used in the scenic view painted before them. In essence, the painting is of a medium length rectangular, wooden table partially extending from a room inside of an apartment or condo, out onto a balcony with cast…

and the Creation of Weariness in “The Weary Blues” This paper will focus to use the relative knowledge of literary stylistics, deviation and foregrounding to analyze Langston Hughes’s poem “The Weary Blues”, and use strong evidence from the poem to support the argument of Hughes’s use of literary stylistics to create and highlight the sentimental elements of weary in this poem. The weary sentimental elements are significant to the theme of this poem. Blues is the music in America which testimony…

should. According to the news guy, the river should crest below the top of the dike,” said Jed, “but I’m worried” “So come sit,” said the old man, “There’s only one thing left to do, and that’s what the Blues are for. I’ve been with the river all my life. It comes, it goes, and the Blues flows right along with it. When the rivers gone, I’ll be gone, so lets help the river along. Do you know how to play?” “Well, I’ve been trying for five years, so I probably can strum along,” said Jed,…

‘The confession’ is the last track of the album ‘Eli and the Thirteenth Confession’, released in 1968 when Laura Nyro was 21. (Perone, James E, 2012) Unfortunately, the songs she wrote in this album became hits for the others, (e.g. ‘Stone Soul Picnic’ by The Fifth Dimension and ‘Eli's Coming’ by three dog night) yet this fact shows her powerful songwriting skill. As the title of the song ‘The confession’ indicates, she wrote very honest lyrics about her passion, towards both spiritual and…