Musician

are three are the famous musicians in Mississippi as a child I heard my parents speak about and still can remember some of the music being played by a few. They seem to be household names and more places than St. Louis. These three people are BB King, Muddy Waters and Bessie Smith. All from the state of Mississippi. BB King, is still playing the blues even though he’s past the age of 87. His birth given name is Riley B. King. In 1949 he began to be a well know musician, although he got signed…

motivations and behaviors of musicians during the life course. First, is psychology’s subfield of humanism that Maslow (1943a, 1943b, 1954) combined with the motivation theory to develop a human needs model (i.e., bio-psycho-social). This model explained the motivations of healthy older musicians to participate in community music ensembles. Second, sociology’s psychosocial continuity theory that Atchley (1971, 1989) proposed that explained continued health of aging musicians (i.e.,…

“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence” -Colin Powell. I will never forget when I was awarded one of the two “Most Outstanding Musician” awards when I was a 7th grader at Neil Armstrong Middle School. It was the second week of school when we first met the string orchestra teacher; no one gave her a schedule. Her curly ginger hair, piercings, and her tattoos made her look kind of “intimidating”, but she was a very fun and…

"The story of 3 women and 105 men", can you imagine this is actually refers to one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature "Water Margin"? When you read the headline, you will subconscious think that headline regarding to a yellow journalism and may generate curiosity to read more content, after you click on it, whereas it is actually a historical story about 108 heroes. This is called “clickbait”, which attract click-through rate by writing sensationalist headlines that…

Many musicians create songs that people can relate to and can build a meaning from the song. Music helps a lot of people get through life, because a lot of people want to kill themselves. A lot of people say that the music industry is mainly male dominated, which is very true. Male musicians have a higher voice opinion in the music industry than female musicians do. In the music industry, Billboard created Women in Music to help build support for women and to help recognize all the female…

Professional Musician the career field i’m researching is the professional musician. musicians have been around since the beginning of time and will be here when time is no more. the reason i am studying the career of professional musician is because I myself am already a musician by choice and by passion. By researching this career field I hope to gain valuable insight into what it takes to be a professional musician. there are approximately “167,400 people in this job as said in 2012, and is…

of opportunities for musicians and music industry professionals and amateurs. Unregistered visitors are able to view Listings and Musicians, but cannot book musicians or apply for a Listing without first registering to create a Frontrow Account. Frontrow is not an owner, operator or provider of musical services and Frontrow does not own, manage and/or control musicians or licenses. Frontrow makes available an online platform or marketplace with related technology for Musicians and Clients to…

Conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a 2014 survey shows that there are only about 173,300 available musician occupations in the United States (“Musicians and Singers”). Meanwhile, there are about 35,000 high schools in the country with bands ranging from 20 to 400 members (“High School”). This difference in numbers does not constitute the amount of musicians there are in the nation, let alone the world. Many musically inclined individuals begin to prosper in high school band, which…

difficult and can never be easy. In order to decide between two common jobs, a musician and an author, research has been conducted to compare and contrast the two jobs. Even though a musician and an author are very different, they can also be very similar, which cause a hard choice to pick from the two! Being a musician is a difficult and time-consuming job, but it can definitely be worth it! Some job duties as a musician include researching for upcoming performances, finding locations for…

Schumann. Musicians are skillful, patient, and creative people. They play or perform for audiences, which takes a lot of time and effort to be able to play. There’s lots of practice involved, musicians don’t become musicians with a push of a button. There’s been studies that show that musicians practice from one to eight hours a day, which is a mass amount of time used for playing. They have many duties that need to be accomplished. To conclude, there are many pros and cons in a musicians…