Blues

It was a cold windy day in late November. It was a typical winter day in Rhode Island. The sky was blue, but the air had a chill to it and you could almost smell the snow arriving. My friends and I stood in a circle lightly bouncing trying to use each others body heat to keep ourselves warm. It has always been our tradition to get to an arena at least an hour before a concert starts and wait for the doors to open. This day was no different. We refused to let the weather break our tradition even…

The History of the King Elvis Presley is a well-known name in pop culture, a synonym of talent, the man who “rose to fame in the mid-1950s—on the radio, TV and the silver screen—and continues to be one of the biggest names in rock 'n' roll” (“Elvis Presley Biography”). Many people recognize his legacy as an icon but seem to be oblivious to the history behind the individual nicknamed as “The King”. Elvis Presley’s life is the story of a man that, despite his humble childhood, managed to gain…

Jazz is one of the greatest genres of music. Jazz was the single, greatest influence of music in the 20th century. Jazz made dancing to music popular and evolutionized dances. It gave African Americans an important role in the 1920s. Jazz music led to the creation of new music genres and this made Jazz a great thing to remember in the 20s. Jazz music influenced dancing to music and new types of dance moves that go with music. Types of dance moves like the Charleston involved partners dancing…

life,the many awards she has earned to her life now. The beginning of Franklin’s childhood is March 25, 1942. He is the daughter of a very skilled Baptist preacher ,C. L. Franklin. Aretha first moved to Detroit, Motor City, known for its many blues stars, in 1948. She was just six when she went to Detroit. Here she recorded her first album. Then moving to New York…

Raine Baker 5/5/2016 Sean Beachy "Good Times, Bad Times" Led Zeppelin is a name that transcends generations and has made a lasting impression on music history. After an unlikely formation from the ending of another band, they took the world by storm. The band faced triumphs and tribulations, before their sad and unwelcome end. Luckily for everyone else, they reunited time and time again to delight and wow the public. Led Zeppelin was instrumental in the late sixties and seventies of the…

 The modal jazz Separate chapter on the theory of modal jazz, jazz deserves a sub-style characterized by the use of a few chords and much harmonic space, which was popularized by Miles Davis in his 1959 album Kind of Blue. The disc is "So What", a subject of only two chords that perfectly sums up the essence of modal jazz: leave much room for improvisation in each chord than usual in most subjects and standards, so that it is natural for the musician to explore in detail…

In their book, The Rise of the Crooners, authors Pitts and Hoffman explain the origins of the vocal style. Bing Crosby, one of their first singers to adopt a more causal, sensual vocal technique, came on the scene around 1930. Gene Austin’s hit “My Blue Heaven”, topped the charts in 1927. As Pitts and Hoffman say, this was the first of what would become popular music, “that is, the process of squeezing diversity through the strainer of familiarity”. Tin Pan Alley, a large music publishing…

As stated by the legends of the iconic band ACDC, “it’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll”. These words serve as a summation of the music that plagued a generation and became more than a new genre of music loved by so many people and hated by even more. The rough and wild world of Rock and Roll music was the pretext for the changes in society that were much needed during the time of its birth and throughout its entire rein of its popularity, spanning from 1951 to the present day…

Orientation Event During the first session, Purple started to share their experience with full time work and the internal battle that they were experiencing on whether or not they should stay in the job. For me it was interesting to see that this one story so clearly resonated with almost every member of the group. Our body language changed. It was like the group was coming together for the first time to rally around Purple so that they could feel like they were not alone in their experience.…

transferred from their original West African home to The United States of America because of the large slave trade that happened between these two areas during the eighteenth century. This music then slowly transformed itself into what we know as Blues.…