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folk music, classical music, black music, Latin folk music, etc., which also have their own set of system. Commonly these two music genres attract audiences who are educated and mature. The connection between jazz and classical music helps attract new audience and amateur music lovers to understand jazz and its…

Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Gillespie and Parker were so impressed by Davis, that they wanted him to take the place of a sick bandmate. He was also accepted into the prestigious, Juilliard School of Music to study music. Davis left Illinois and moved to New York to attend Julliard in 1944. He was taking courses in classical music by day and…

Johnny Mercer's song "Tangerine" captures this romanticism, as it tells the story of a glamour girl from Argentina, "the beauty of her race," who turns out to be empty and shallow, and her dark eyed beauty merely due to artful makeup. So while people in the U.S. romanticized Latin Americans, they also, using varying levels of subtlety, disparaged the very cultures they looked to for inspiration in songs, films, dances, and other entertainments. The American public was not alone in looking to…

him and because of Oliver moving to Chicago, Armstrong got his start in Kid Ory’s band. Jelly Roll Morton, Joe King Oliver, Sidney Bichet, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington all changed things for musicians today. Jelly Roll Morton grew up in New Orleans and started playing piano at the age of 10. In 1904 he began traveling, playing the piano in places like Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. He was one of the creators of ragtime, which was the first major black music style popular…

7 weather misconceptions that you should Stop believing 1. Hurricanes and Tornadoes are the most deadly natural disaster Hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes may seem like the most dangerous natural disaster you could ever face. However, according to a research, floods and droughts actually the most deadly that killed more Americans over time. Surprisingly, deaths caused by the high speed winds, like tornadoes and hurricane, don’t even rank second when it comes to deaths statistics. Most…

everything” - Eminem “Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It 's rage, it 's creativity, it 's pain, it 's hurt, but it 's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.” -Kanye west “I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.” - Lil Wayne Eminem, Kanye West, and Lil Wayne are some of the most criticized artists because of their vulgar lyrics, yet, they are some of the most…

Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest hurricanes in United States history, struck New Orleans in 2005. By the time the hurricane made landfall, heavy rains had already threatened the city’s infrastructure. The levees contributed to the flooding which submerged approximately 80% of the metropolitan area. It is believed that then-president George W. Bush and Federal officials were warned that the levees would likely be breached by the storm, but were negligent when it came to taking the…

thought that we would never see anything dry ever again. Two other families then came to live with us, making the grand total of people in the house twelve with one on the way. One family that came was some of Jamie’s work friends that lived in New Orleans and the other was friends of the family as well, but I actually knew neither one. It was a scary thing to realize we had twelve people that had to survive together and not even one could really leave for supplies. Walmart is not usually open…

One reading that interested me was the first chapter of “Understanding Black American Aspects In Hip Hop Cinema” by Tani Sanchez. This reading made me understand more about the past and how hip hop music was born. It provided so much information about the history of it all. It explained how music radiates through people to better the world. Within that first chapter of “Understanding Black American Aspects In Hip Hip Cinema”, it focused on the aspect of importance of hip hop music, where it…

attracted to the romance of it, and in my studies I learned of New Orleans. At first, I presumed that, today, most of the inhabitants spoke the language but after some research I realized I was wrong. Still, the more I read the more intrigued I became. It was just last July that I took a trip unlike any others I had taken before. My boyfriend of one year took me to Louisiana to discover the historic French Quarter in the famous city of New Orleans, and I was not disappointed. The farthest I…