Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B music is arguably one of the best genres of today’s time. Artists such as Beyonce, Chris Brown, Ciara, R. Kelly, Whitney Houston, Luther Vandross, and many more, are all considered Contemporary R&B music artists. Contemporary R&B music, or just R&B, is a music genre that combines elements of rhythm and blues, soul, funk, pop, hip hop and dance. The 1990s era is considered the beginning of R&B music. This is because the world was slowly moving away from strictly pop sounding music and moving into more of a hip-hop sounding vibe. I personally think R&B music is the best genre of music there is. My reason for this is because, the music is soulful and carries deep emotion and feeling in the lyrics and melody. Some feel R&B music…

of music. The term was instituted by music industry business visionary Kedar Massenburg amid the late 1990s to showcase and depict a style of music that risen out of soul and contemporary R&B. Intensely situated in soul music, neo soul is recognized by a less ordinary sound than its contemporary R&B partner, with joined components running from jazz, funk, and hip bounce to pop, combination, and African music. It has been noted by music journalists for its conventional R&B impacts, cognizant…

Black music is always revolving and changing, creative musicians are always trying to add new elements to existing contents. In this research paper, we are going to look into the development of modern days neo-soul music in America, what makes this style of music fascinating to a lot of music lovers, artists that excels in this style of music and how it influenced musicians around the world. It is extremely difficult to separate R&B, hip-hop, jazz and neo-soul as these genres of music are…

Maxwell is a 7-year-old white male. He is in the 2nd grade for the 17/18 school year. Maxwell loves everything about school including reading, math, recess, and lunch. He stated that he likes school because “you get to read and learn”. When asked about what his friends like about him he added that his friends do not like anything about him. He also stated that he has been bullied in the school hallway by older kids. Maxwell stated that the three things that he does well is keeping his hands to…

AIM IMS Application (Annexure – 1) DR. BHIMRAO RAMJI AMBEDKAR – A PEACEFUL WARRIOR OF HUMANITY - Dr. Mithun G Kherde, (BDS, MPH) - Introduction Born on 14th April 1891 at Mhow (MP), to Ramji and Bhimbai in Mahar caste which was considered to be untouchable, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar is today well known to the world as an intellectual revolutionary, who became the ultimate ray of hope for the depressed and discriminated human beings in India. He was the greatest son born to India. A True “Bharat Ratna”,…

people. Postmodernism help started the feminist art movement giving women freedom of expression through art and those who were not able to express themselves in the past. Postmodernism began creating new media genres such as deconstructuralism, Eco-art, mimicry etc to create a statement through humor (Zurbrugg, 1993). I’ve definitely been inspired by contemporary historical works. It has affected me positively by making me consider current events and try working with a whole range of mixed…

(Erpentine Galleries). Yiadom-Boakye’s provocative approach of story-telling makes her a rising art star in the contemporary art field. At the same time, as the curator of Yiadom-Boakye’s very first solo exhibition, Naomi Beckwith showed her remarkable ability to spot new rising artist. As Lawrence Alloway writes in the article “The Great Curatorial Dim-Out,” some of the pressures a curator would encounter are “taste expectations emanating from the trustees and director” (224), and “taste…

Curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Pixel Forest occupies three floors of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. It includes work throughout Rist’s entire career, from her earliest videos of the 1980s, which explore the representation of the female body in popular culture, to her more recent extensive video installations, which transform the space into dream-like environments enhanced by mystical music. The exhibition is eccentric and unconventional; visitors of the New Museum are quickly attracted to…

Specifically, this paper will address the I.M. Pei additions through Foster & Partners of the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art mainly from its conception in 1981 to its opening in 2011. It is beyond the scope of this paper to explore changes in the Linde Family Wing after its opening in 2011. This paper will cover how the museum was able to expand in order to create this new wing and why the new wing was important for the museum's growing contemporary collection. I will also discuss I.M.…

James Partrick is a DJ, curator, author, and educator. He curates and develops electronic music and art festivals and events. He has also won many awards including the American Composer Forum- MECA award. He also develops music production, composition, and sound design curricula for Dubspot in New York City and the Institute of Production and Recording in Minneapolis. He is also the owner of the Slam Academy that students take the electronic music training. James Patrick started the article…