Blue-spotted Salamander

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…

What is “blues,” really? It is a genre, yes, but some could argue that it was more of a movement, a feeling. The “sound” of blues varies vastly, changing from person to person and from era to era, as do all genres. Though, in comparison, it could be said that blues might be one of the most multi-faceted genres we’ve had to date. This could have something to do with its incipient nature of self-expression, having deep roots in African-American work songs, and spirituals. Essentially, the blues is…

Singing out their pain and suffering, or just to make the time fly by, blues was said to have been created by early slavery. Deep south in the mid to late 1800’s, blues is known to be deeply rooted with African American culture and history originating from 19th century while in the southern plantations (Kopp). As Ed Kobb explains in the…

early jazz era consisted of many building blocks that created the foundation of many of the jazz eras to follow, including innovators, trends, and styles. To begin, early jazz can be dated around the 1920’s, a time in which jazz was diverging from its blues, brass band, and ragtime heritage into its own style. This newly developed style included the usage of collective improvisation, in which all…

Jose Martinez Miss.Windish English 2 27 February 2018 Room The scene takes place after a say their final goodbyes to the room they were kept in. Jack’s mom is going to start college and Jack is going to have to go to start school. Today is the first day of school, I wake up in bed and I stare at the walls.I look at the alarm clock I got for my birthday and it’s six forty-five in the morning. I look outside the window and the sun is rising. It’s still dark but i’m very nervous today. I…