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Knelling down, she grasped the small, blue book in her hands. It read ‘A lifetime by Aria Hale’. Aria’s heart and soul bubbled with happiness. This is the one. She found a little nook and began reading. Aria was halfway through the book and she could a deep, darkness stirring in her stomach…

The Blues, Jazz, Ragtime and Negro Spiritual music had a big influence and affected the American society in a good way. The music allowed people to express their feelings and was able to share great talent without feeling discriminated. The music was heard everywhere and many artists tried to follow or create new music using the four genres of music. We’re still enjoying the music of that era today. With the spiritual music, the African American expressed the pain of slaves for spiritual and…

Dylan Scallo Mrs. Glaser English 3 Honors 29 May 2015 Jazz comes in a variety of genres: dixieland, bebop, blues. Each genre contains its own unique quality that distinguishes itself from the rest, whether the difference is the steady beat of a drum, the focus on a pianist’s melody, or the fast tempo kept throughout a piece of music. The influx of jazz styles was welcomed by the people in the late twentieth century who appreciated a variety of music to choose from. The music reflects what was…

Gospel, Spirituals, Blues, and Rap: African American Music Introduction In the African American culture, we have several different genres of music. Each genre Has a special place in the history of the African American culture. Slaves used Spirituals as a way of communication later branched off into different genres. Negro Spirituals In the olden days, Slaves lived very difficult lives. They weren't entitled to many things, but they were given the rights to go to church and play music.…

could see the color blue until modern times,” Loria writes how blue was not used to describe objects until more modern times. The author traced the use of each color in a language and culture and saw a pattern of the emergence of the use of each color. Black and white were the first colors to appear, and blue was the last to appear. The sky and ocean were not described as blue and used other colors and words to describe the color. I believe just because we did not used the word “blue” to…

associated with African-Americans. The central figures were Early Blues Singers (Robert Johnson), Jazz moved "up the river" to Chicago (Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton), and Dixieland - New Orleans (King Oliver). The blues, which had influenced jazz from the beginning, became increasingly popular due to singers like Ma Rainey, Mamie Smith and Bessie Smith---the latter selling thousands of discs, including a national hit, “Down Hearted Blues”. The period from the end of the First World War…

Music, culture, and drugs have interrelated together in various levels of harmony and conflict throughout contemporary music, affecting patrons and creators alike. James Baldwin’s sonny’s blues is an illustration of this triangle of traditional relations that has plagued three generations of American culture. The unfolding of the story dates back to 1950's a time in which the African American community swung into a downward spiral. Sonny’s, the protagonist of the story discovers music as his aim…

Description There are various shades of blue and black, splashes of yellows, a textured cypress tree, yellow stars, a crescent moon glazed in its own yellow light, a blue mountain range, fields of blue, a town, buildings was a dash of orange in the windows, a church with a large steeple, vertical and horizontal lines, black lines in the tree, small trees in the town with curly tops, reflections of the yellow moonlight on the tops of the buildings and the small trees. Analysis There are five…

from her leg to the rest of her body, turning her purple. She breathed fire, and it made all the night dragons flee—all but one: the huge one that she had fought with a week ago. She growled with hate and her eyes narrowed. He opened his wings, and blue spread through him. Frost blinked in surprise. Suddenly, the ground opened below them and swallowed them into another tunnel. Apparently, one of each kind of dragon could change colour. Starshade, a night dragon, and Frost were now joined by the…

Finally, in 1989, Dylan was inducted in the rock and roll Hall of Fame. Also he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2012. In “like a rolling stone”, Bob dylan is worthy of the Nobel prize of literature, because of his unique writing style and innovation idiom.…