Joplin

The Joplin tornado article explains how this family was caught in the Joplin tornado and how they all survived, and the Peshtigo fire article explains how the Kramers fought to survive this deadly fire and succeeded. In “The Blood Red Night” Mr. and Mrs. Kramer had to hide in a well with a mattress over their heads to survive. In “The Evil Swirling Darkness” the family had to hide in the bathroom and take cover from the tornado. Fortunately, both of the families had long fights with the…

1. Song Title: Maple Leaf Rug (Scott Joplin) Group: Large piano with only one male singer in alone room. Description: It seems that the singer in his right hand was using the piano and in his left hand was the sound of the trombone. I believe the song has a known style. 2. Song Title: Maple Leaf Rug (Jelly Roll Morton) Group: Large piano with only one male singer and also with the long plant of leaf. Description: The singer seems that he was mad and the song was fast. It was clear that in the…

and Janis Joplin transcended the limitations of words through manmade sounds. At the end of “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out,” Smith interspersed sound with phrases. While she hummed “mmmmm” to demonstrate frustration with the speaker’s situation, Smith wove in phrases like “I felt so low” and “not one penny / And my friends I haven’t any.” She portrayed the bitterness and nostalgia people feel after loss. This lyric choice only made the ballad’s content more poignant. Joplin borrowed…

Ragtime Jazz is considered the first completely American Music. As mentioned before ragtime jazz was popular towards the end of the 19th century and about two decades of the twentieth century. Musical Characteristics: Ragtime Jazz is structured in a way that is similar to the march. this music style’s use of syncopation is what makes it distinguishable. Ragtime Jazz is lively and springy and is ideal to dance for, much like todays music. The name “Ragtime Jazz” is believed to be a contraction…

classical music. However, ragtime is an indispensable musical style in the formation of jazz. King of ragtime Scott Joplin was a black composer whose name and ragtime had been forgotten for some time. In the movie The Sting, Scott Joplin’s ragtime The Entertainer was picked as the theme song, and Joplin’s ragtime came to light again. The life of a representative composer of ragtime Scott Joplin shows how he played a significant role in the development of ragtime. Furthermore, by analyzing the…

As part of the contract, he had a no tolerance policy for any intravenous drug use, and the entire band agreed to abide. However, he discovered in 1969 that Joplin was injecting drugs, and he did not confront her about it. Instead he took out a life insurance policy that guaranteed him $200,000 in the event that Joplin died. Joplin died of a heroin overdose on October 4th, 1970. The San Francisco Associated Indemnity Corp. challenged his collection of the life insurance money from Joplin’s death…

On Sunday May 22, 2011 Joplin, Missouri experienced a tornado that was measured on the Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF Scale) to be measured at an EF-5. This classification according to Smith, Perotin, and Walsh (2012), indicates that the tornado contained wind speeds greater than 200 miles per hour. The tornado and path of destruction as described by Paul, Stimers, and Caldas (2014), was multi-vortex, nearly a mile wide, measured a path of at least six-miles in length as it traveled across the…

overall threat than a smaller town such as Joplin, Missouri. Joplin’s biggest threat to its community was natural hazards. This was evident in May of 2011 when the town was devastated when a tornado ripped through leaving 158 dead and injuring thousands (CNN Staff, 2014). Tornadoes are always a threat throughout the Midwest. Many homes and business have basements and cellars for people to take shelter in the case of a tornado. However, it is not clear if Joplin viewed tornadoes as big as a…

In what ways have Ragtime and Blues contributed to the emergence of Jazz? Beyond the fact that Jazz has several contributors, Ragtime and Blues each have their own way of adding onto and impacting what is already a well-known genre. Jazz is a type of music of black American origin (which emerged at the beginning of the 20th century) characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm. The two styles (Ragtime and Blues) of music contributing to Jazz differentiate…

Folk rock is nothing like psychedelic and acid rock because folk rock is a combination of folk music and rock music that arose in the United States around the 1960s. Psychedelic, Acid, and folk rock are all sub genre of the genre of rock. Janis Joplin, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, The Beatles, Country Joe and the Fish, and Jimi Hendrix have in common is that they are all icon in the rock and blues genre. Each of these artists faced many issues that they had to overcome in the career. Many of the…