Folk art

suck as poets they created high art and folk art this way to prove to everybody that we were way more than just black, to show that we were way more than just black, to show that we were smart and outgoing and had a sense of mind. These African Americans created folk art this was their opportunity to escape discrimination and racism. They wanted to be look at…

today, leaves me looking for more. Music preferences are one of the things that contribute to one’s own personal style. Personally, in this course I found one missing artist which stands out among others. Don McLean, who has contributed to the history of Folk-Rock in his composition of several iconic songs. Songs which have had an impact on Rock and Roll, such as his “American Pie” hit. An iconic song, that is known to most music enthusiasts with the lyrics that have been debated among…

Bob Dylan is a American musician. He is a singer and a songwriter who sings mostly about folk music. He has been an extremely influential person in the music industry for years. Bob Dylan also had a lot of influence during the political movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He sang at the March on Washington in August of 1963 with a fellow folk musician, Joan Baez.…

Folk Music – Pete Seeger Many throughout the years have shaped folk music, however, one of the most well known folk singers was a man named Pete Seeger. As a multi-instrumentalist, Seeger played the Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin, Piano, Recorder, and the Tin Whistle. However, Seeger also did more than play music. He was also participated in activism of all kinds. He was born in New York City on May 3rd, 1919. He grew up in a household surrounded by music because both his mother and father were…

first Western Art concert with my grandmother by my side, and it was a day that I will never forget. On October 1st, 2015 I attended my first ever Western Art concert with…

higher power of the American society. Bob Dylan’s folk music was still relevant during the Vietnam War, and Cuban Misle crisis. People could identify with Dylan’s “Hard rain” as the song talk about the destructive world with themes of pollution, hunger, war, and racism. Bob Dylan’s “Master of War” song also addressed the Vietnam…

Art, Culture and literature form the foundation of a typical Bengali society and a Bengali household without music and literature is somewhat unimaginable. Music is the soul of Bengal and the traditional folk music mirrors the image of rural Bengal. The folk music has its origin as early as the 4th century with the advent of the invaders in Bengal and other provinces of colonial India. Bengali folk music has poetry, drama, epic, folktales, ballads and proverbs etc. The ethnic folk music forms…

According to Hong (2013), in the case of Hula dance, a numerous amount of mele, which refers to song or chant, happened to be lost permanently since they were forgotten before they could get documented (p. 23). Under those circumstances, the ancestor knew they had to find a solution and then came up with the combination of body movements, facial expressions and rhythms, which called dancing. Most of these dances were folk dance (or folkloric dance) which refers to “an authentic representation…

she was gone. My favorite story is the one of the Chinese ribbon. When I was in fifth grade, the dance teacher at my elementary school said that we would be learning the Chinese ribbon dance, a traditional folk dance with origins in the Han Dynasty. Certain children would be chosen to perform the dance at the cultural assembly and while she would be in charge of teaching the steps, we were in charge of creating the ribbon stick. The ribbon stick was essentially a handle with a long strip of…

Music has always played a big role in my life. Having been a dancer since the age of three I have come to appreciate and interpret many styles of music. As a dancer, I am able to use the music in a way that tells a story and portrays a certain emotion. Music much like dance is both an art form while still being able to fall into everyday life. I would define music as an expression of one 's emotions summed up in a two minute composition. I can definitely say I have personally had an aesthetic…