Blue

songwriters began producing pseudo-blues. Jerome Kern, a white film composer, started borrowing musical material from black songwriters such as Maceo Pinkard. When Kern wrote jazz music, he would place it in the films that he was in the progress of creating. Some of those songs included “Left All Alone Blues” which starred in Kern’s film The Night Boat and “Atlantic Blues” which starred in Kern’s film Lido Lady. But just as white songwriters responded to the blues, using flatted thirds and…

picture that I liked. I lightly drew it out. I got my paint and started painting. The background was pink. I changed it to blue so I wasn’t copyrighting. The first color was a blue, but I didn’t have to add and whites to change. Next, I mixed a little white with a lot of blue to make it a little lighter color blue. Next, I painted the next strip a little light blue by adding…

makes you happy the soothing sound of the blues or the pumping sound of rock and roll? I like both because I feel good and happy. I don’t know about you but I will always pick a happy mood over a sad one although sometimes music does tend to make you sad. All you just need to do is find the brightness in your music. Music makes me feel good for instance rock and roll makes me feel pumped up and ready to party and have a good time. And then with blues I feel like dancing softly and flowing…

reached widespread popularity in the 1920’s (Gioioa 30). The African American community was largely responsible for the creation of jazz music, however influences can be seen from many different ethnic groups and communities. A combination of the blues, ragtime, and Tin Pan Alley songs can be heard when listening to jazz and its improvisational style set it apart from preexisting genres. Creole of Color Brass Bands During the 1890’s and early 1900’s brass bands had become hugely popular in New…

“Relationship between Color and Emotion: A Study of College Students” by Naz Kaya and Helen Epps, ninety-eight students were asked to express their emotional responses to five principal hues (red, yellow, green, blue, purple), five intermediate hues (yellow-red, green-yellow, blue-green, purple-blue, and red-purple), and three achromatic colors (white, gray, and black) and the reasons for the emotion they felt. The color green reminds the students the color of nature which gave them positive…

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…

astonished that the books are real. He sees the truth The color blue is present around Gatsby more than any other character. His gardens are blue, his chauffeur wears blue, the water separating him from Daisy is his "blue lawn" (9.150), mingled with the "blue smoke of brittle leaves" in his yard. His transformation into Jay Gatsby is sparked by Cody, who buys him a "blue coat"—and he sends a woman who comes to his house a "gas blue" dress (3.25). Before you tie this up under one simple label,…

style reminiscent of the Chicago electric blues. Other hard rock entries include “Rock & Roll”, a song born from an improvised riff off of another song on the album, “Four Sticks”. “Rock & Roll” is based on the 12 bar blues progression and is a testament to the progression’s continued impact on rock and a testament to the blues-based…

a famous blues and folk singer from the late 1950’s up until 1999 during that time she used her music to address the inequality that African Americans were facing at the time. Many of her songs in the mid-1960’s was addressing the attacks and inequalities that African Americans were facing giving her the title voice of the Civil Rights Movement. After having enough of this countries racial politics she ended up moving to the south of France, but not before making a lasting impact on blues and…

Emotions in Hues Other than being painted all over the earth and giving beauty to all objects, color can hold a deeper meaning than what many people acknowledge. Recurring color represents a repeating emotion or meaning. In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, there are several colors representing feelings that accompany Pi and his journey in the lifeboat. He does so with only the company of a tiger and his own thoughts. Whenever the color orange is brought up, there is a feeling of hope, a…