Bossa nova

“I see trees of green, red roses, too, I see them bloom, for me and you, and I think to myself, what a wonderful world.” These are lyrics from “What a Wonderful World” created by a mastermind of jazz named Louis Armstrong. There are many famous jazz composers, including Jelly Roll Morton, Buddy Bolden, and Miles Davis. Most people consider jazz being created in New Orleans, but its roots began from African rhythms. Freed African-American slaves helped create jazz at the end of the 19th century.…

styles of jazz, people might tend to think which style they would enjoy the most between these categories of jazz. For example, ragtime, classical, hot jazz, Chicago style, Kansas City style, gypsy jazz, bebop, vocalese, mainstream, cool, hard bop, Bossa Nova and swing. Swing dancing can be taught or describe as. According to Wiki, “is a form of American music that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s. Swing uses a strong…

In chapter two, Boal brings to bare the changes in theater during the transition from the medieval, feudal period and the renaissance, with the rise of a bourgeois middle class. He states that the bourgeois rose up due to their individual prowess and practicality, leading to the rise of the exceptional individual protagonist in theater. Machiavelli's plays propound the value of intellect separated from morality, through which characters get what they want. He talks about Machiavelli and…

Jazz music has evolved greatly over many years establishing a large variety of different styles within it. I will investigate the deepest roots of jazz and also take a look at some of the theory behind. In the 17th to the 19th century the true and honest roots of jazz music were just beginning. Black slaves were placed in the deep south to work in cotton fields where they would sing African spirituals, chants, work songs and field hollers whilst slaving away all day long in the heat of the sun.…

Imagine if Barack Obama was still the president of the United States. Now, imagine if the Democrats suddenly approved a series of extremely liberal initiatives. In response, Russia decides to support the conservative party and sends in money to strengthen the already strong army, and, together, they take down the American president. To finalize, they make the Democrat party illegal and close down every liberal media in the US, throwing in jail anyone who openly spoke out against the government.…

Global art cinema has been a widely contested term among film critics and scholars alike. The term was created to help categorize and define a genre of film that directly opposes First Cinema, or commercial cinema produced and distributed by Hollywood in the United States. In the book, Global Art Cinema, Second Cinema, or art cinema, has been summarized by authors Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover, as being feature films typically including “...foreign production, overt engagement of aesthetic..…

Jazz music represents the combination of many different cultures into to one, to form something soulful and full of rich history. The basis to all music- melody, harmony, tone and rhythm- are all complex and full of hidden meaning in jazz. There are many variations on jazz as well, each full of its own meaning and its own rich history. Jazz started in the 1800s by African-Americans in the south. Plantation worker made songs, spirituals, and field hollers part of everyday life. These people used…

General Information The city of Brasilia is the capital of Brazil, located in Northeast South American. The country has a population of 2.48 million people. It is described as having a tropical climate, with more rain during the summer than the winter. The dominant religion of Brazil historically was and still is Christianity. Brazil possesses a richly spiritual society formed from the meeting of the Roman Catholic Church with the religious traditions of African slaves and indigenous…

Brazil is known for the samba dance and its carnivals, which are famous world over. The carnivals are popular with tourists and millions of them visit Brazil every year to sample the culture. Brazil has many different genres of music. Samba, Choro, Bossa Nova, and sertanejo are some of the most popular…