Blues

The Power of Color Author Dionne Brand emphasizes the use of color in her short story “No Rinsed Blue Sky, No Red Flower Fences”. The main character’s emotions, perceptions, as well as her social standing are demonstrated. The protagonist is an immigrant to Canada where she finds work babysitting children. All of her own children reside in her seaside hometown, leaving her alone in this foreign country. She is frightened by the whiteness of the walls in her apartment and the people surrounding…

alleles in animals. This essay shows how the selective breeding method and transgenesis method are carried out on the Belgian Blue Cattle and the Spidergoat. Selective Breeding in Belgian Blue Cattle Selective Breeding is a process where individuals who have desirable traits are selected by breeders to mate and produce offspring who also have the desirable trait.(1) In Belgian Blue cattle, the trait that breeders are wanting to select for is Muscular Hypertrophy or “Double Muscling” which is a…

After going through all the songs in this module, I can see some similarities in all of them. But the only one thing am going to talk about is the repetition in some of the songs in Jazz, Gospel songs, Blues, and Hip-hop. Also, they were songs of war or civil right movement. Let me start with “This Little Light of Mine” in Gospel music. People sang this song and other spirituals song during the Civil Rights Movement as a way of expressing unity as they fought for equal rights and freedom for…

A few of the popular ones were Blues and Ragtime. Blues is very similar to Jazz because of the similar ways musicians modify the instruments for the pieces. Artists like Robert Johnson helped showcase the modification of the guitar beautifully. He used a slide which helped mimic the sound of another singing voice though Johnson was playing solo. A very large part of Blues was a call and response feature. It was when there is a question asked in one section…

Sonny’s Blue and How it feels to be Colored Me Music plays a prominent role in both “Sonny’s Blues” and “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” because it allowed them to find their freedom. During “Sonny’s Blues”, Sonny takes all the hurt and misery that he went through, and displayed it through the art of music. Zora in “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” expresses her freedom by listening to jazz music to escape her reality. Music saved Sonny’s life because he saw it as a breakthrough from all the pain…

Listening to the music produced by Bessie Smith called St. Louis Blues, some musical aspects come out clearly. Coming to be known as one of the fundamental jazz plays in history, it has comprised of the blues aspect in the rhythmic flow, a quality that had not been explored. The song by Bessie Smith uses the famous saxophone as the foremost redundant melodic flow that accompanies by Bessie Smith singing. There is also the vibraphone that is played in the background. The combination of these…

Blue Sky Mine by Midnight Oil is an environmental song complaining about the dreadful tragedy of Wittenoom. The title – Blue Sky Mine – describes the blue asbestos mine at Wittenoom, and is used ironically to illustrate the deprived working conditions of the workers of the mine. The fast passed and rhythmic introduction creates an enthusiastic and ecstatic mood showing how the Colonial Sugar Refining Ltd sent subliminal messages to Australians inferring that mining is an easy way to get rich.…

piano and jazz orchestra, and created popular musical compositions for several stage works and films. Gershwin’s most famous piece, however, is undoubtedly Rhapsody in Blue. I have admired and revered Gershwin’s musical virtuosity for the greater portion of my life; thus, I was ecstatic when my piano instructor chose Rhapsody in Blue as my senior recital piece. The song was incredibly complicated, and took the greater part of a year…

in a blue zone www.bluzones.com/about-blue-zones. There are (5) blue zones in the world and they are: The Italian Island of Sardinia; Okinawa ,Japan; Loma Linda, California; Costa Rica's isolated peninsula; Icaria, and isolated Greek island. I choose the blue zone because civilization is supposedly less stressful, people have healthy diets, and have strong family and social ties in the community https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/blue_zone Personally I would like to stay in Sardinia, Italy blue…

the color blue and the Forest all consist of a deeper meaning in The Giver, Gathering Blue and Messenger, respectively. All three novels contain elements of symbolism. In the first novel The Giver, one object that stands out as a symbol is the sled. The sled stands for the process of transmitting…