Charlie Parker

In the asking of these questions Black Nationalism took a stand in preaching self-reliance, a holistic approach in viewing nationalism in the black community and created a sense of intellectual liberation, the effects of this can be seen vividly in the art and literature of the Black Arts Movement. In the climax of Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman Clay does just this, eviscerating all of Lula’s preconceived notions of what blackness was and gave her an inside understanding of what her privilege disallows…

irl?” Gaiman remarks. Born into a musical family in Cleveland, Ohio, music surrounded Diane Dixon from a young age. Whether she was listening to her mother sing in a jazz big band or her older brother practicing for his gigs opening for the Doors or the Who, no instrument or musical experience was off limits. She met Jim Morrison backstage at age eleven, but her life-changing moment happened when her brother took her to see the Beatles. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Dixon says. “It was…

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.…

ways out of the horrific reality that confronts him. Like Sonny, William seeks a way to feel in control, like music, or even heroin. This, sadly, was the path taken by most African Americans growing up in the 1950’s. Even great musicians, such as Charlie Parker, suffered drug addiction and early death. So how does the music, lifestyle, and self-discovery of the Main Characters in Sonny’s Blues relate to the Harlem Culture of the 1950’s? Jazz in the 1950’s came to be somewhat a form of speaking,…

Newberry Award Winners: DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie. Candlewick Press, 2000. Summary: Because of Winn-Dixie is a story of a young girl, Opal, who moved from one small town in Florida to another with her father who was a preacher. Her mother left them when Opal was very young and she struggles with this throughout the book. While in the supermarket, Winn-Dixie, Opal found a dog that was tearing apart the store. She claimed the dog as hers and she and her father took the dog home. She…

saxophone from about 1840-1910. However around the time of the roaring 20s' the sax began to emerge again when it was realized that it fit in well with jazz music. (Mark Watkins PhD.) Famous jazz saxophone players from this era include; Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, and John…

the contrary, because of the unfamiliar and different lengths of phrasing, Bebop music was considered unsuitable to dance to, another contrast to Big Band Music. The artists accredited with creating this style of music were Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. These two musicians created the unique sound of Bebop by experimenting with unconventional chromaticism, discordant sounds, and placements of the accents throughout a melody. The typical Bebop Music was also characterized by swinging some…

Film Noir, launched just before USA’s entry into the World War II and peaking during the Cold War, was a hybrid of glamour and grittiness, exposing a seamy underside of America during the mid century. Film Noir was cast with wised-up men and wordly women who might not have had the right answers, but certainly had all the right moves. More than often, they held mixed motives and malign agendas. The name ”Film Noir” was coined by french film critics whom, after the trade-blockade following the…