Jazz

Park Plaza Ballroom – a favorite hangout place for enthusiastic dancers. As the Rumba was exhausting its enthusiasm, Mambo really flourished in the 1940s to 1950s, and it became a popular dance in the U.S., when the Cuban music merged with American Jazz and Swing. Prado made some modifications to the Mambo so as to make it more commercial. Due to the violent acrobatics, it had to be toned down and therefore a modified version was presented at dance studios, resort hotels, and at nightclubs in…

classic Rock and Pop, who were your influences? Arthur: “Well, It’s very wide. It wasn’t just influenced by classic Rock and Pop. I was influenced by Classical music, and Jazz, and Rhythm & Blues music--all kinds…

through the relationship of Jay Gatsby and Daisy. In Nickel and Dimed, opportunity is represented through Barbara Ehrenreich’s struggle to survive under the poverty line. These uniquely American values are also exemplified in many different forms. Jazz is a distinctive American form that exhibits the values of rebellion. It reflects the American ideal of rebellion because it had to rebel against the constricting rules of popular music. It erupted out of this conformity and a unique, spectacular,…

“Sonny’s Blues” is a short story, written by James Baldwin, about an African American teenager whose name is Sonny. Sonny has a history of heroin use and incarceration. Now that he has been released from prison, the story follows his journey to become a jazz pianist. Sonny’s brother is the narrator of the story and the setting is Harlem after World War II, most likely during the late 1940s and early 1950s. During the story, Sonny experiences flow, primarily while playing the piano. The basic…

human beings and they had talent just like any other white person.Once the whites realized that not every African American was dreadful ,they slowly started to get along.This was the time for the blacks to have their spotlight. This was the age of jazz..These musical forms spread across the country, north to Chicago before arriving in New York a few years before World War…

The song “Flamenco Sketches” by the Miles Davis Sextet has the cool jazz sound with the modal jazz style. The song has a light and soft sound with simple melodic improvisations. A traditional rhythm section maintains a steady rhythm throughout the song, but this rhythm section uses countermelodies to add colorations during the improvisations. The pianist is constantly playing a soft melody underneath the improvisations and sometimes mirroring the melody played by the improviser. The bassist…

blacks occurred after many migrated to the North for the new opening jobs. There was still black american lynching, there was Jim Crow Laws, even effects in the North, but nonetheless the spread of their culture came to certain cities in the North. The jazz music from New Orleans spread to Harlem in New York City, known as the Harlem…

significance of the “cultural explosion in Harlem during the 1920’s” justifies the period’s name as “the Harlem Renaissance”. They also provide historical information regarding the cotton club and how it featured African American musicians as well as jazz and blues. Moreover, since the piece is a periodical, the intended audience would be those who are subscribed to the journal and it is presented in an enthusiastic…

the fine arts during this time period. Many African Americans fled the south and came to Harlem to express their love for the arts and live in a society which had the same passions as they did. On April 7, 1915, Billie Holiday, the most influential jazz musicians of her time, was born. A major part of what made Billie so influential was that throughout most of her professional career, she dealt with addiction and drug abuse but still managed to create and perform hits such as “God Bless the…

suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn’t any other tale to tell, it’s the only light we’ve got in all this darkness.” (Baldwin) In Sonny’s case, the “light” the narrator mentions is the jazz music that he takes pride in, and the “darkness” is his grim past of loss, addiction, and imprisonment. In a general sense, however, “light” represents any passion an individual might have that has the power to save him or her from pain, or…