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Video Assignment: “The Merchants of Cool” Assignment What do these quotes mean? The comments from the video “The Merchants of Cool” summarize many of the important ideas expressed in the video. In your answers, include AT LEAST 2 sentences: one sentence that explains the quote and another sentence that expresses your opinion about the concept. 1) "The paradox of ‘cool hunting’ is that it kills what it finds." -Douglas Rushkoff • According to Douglas in the video the…

Laura Dachs Period 4 12-01-16 Raisin in the Sun It is only with the help of aspiring dreams that these various members of the Younger family are seen to battle on in a society bent on deferring or quashing them. By thinking big, they refuse to be the raisins in the sun of Langston Hughes’ poem (‘Montage of a Dream Deferred’).The hope to escape poverty is only given concrete assistance by the death of the father, but when most of this money is stolen the family comes together in a show of…

Response Essay #4: “The Blues” Deriving from the soulful spirituals and purposeful work songs the blues was born in the Deep South. African American sharecroppers developed a new outlet allowing them to channel their sorrows into something others enjoyed. Many musicians wishing to further distance themselves from the south and all the negative connotations associated with the area, decided to move northward. They themselves and their music were not always welcome as middle class African…

could be felt then, out in the dimly lit streets as it permeated the thick, humid southern air. The wild energy carried out into the night like a ghostly memory, bittersweet in its distant warmth. Music was the lifeblood of the city, the birthplace of jazz. New Orleans, 1953, nurturing the unique blend of rhythm and blues as it poured throughout the city. It held strong the tradition of New Orleans's nature, that of amalgamating and harmonizing. All intertwined in a web of deep roots, they…

Comparison of Swing and Bop Jazz Jazz music is one of the youngest genres of music that is played in this day and age. This genre of jazz encompasses several different styles such as bebop and swing. Both styles are different but they are still classified as jazz. Swing music is the older of the two styles jazz. Swing became very popular in the 1930’s to the mid 1940’s. Ironically, bebop’s inception came out from creative spins on the already popular swing music. Swing usually consisted of…

During the career of Ma Rainey there was another woman who was having a good time in her music life. Her name is Bessie Smith, she had very humble beginning. Source 4 says “In childhood she danced on street corners for coins to help her family”. That was her beginning as an artist, even though she did did not have something similar to a big debut in a important place, she started from the bottom and continued going to the top. Bessie Smith was influenced by Ma Rainey a very important woman of…

Blue” The genre of Jazz has been subject to constant change and development throughout history. Drawing on the various cultural practices of the areas where it became popular, one of the most widely known was New Orleans Jazz. Considered the Birthplace of Jazz, New Orleans was home to a vibrant musical scene, influenced heavily by the combination of a traditional African musical texture and rhythms and key points of European harmony and form. Throughout the evolution of Jazz, the use of blue…

Whether digging into glam pop songs, avant-jazz routines with punk attitude, or sophisticated garage-rock episodes, impetuous guitarist Nels Cline, a creative powerhouse in small group settings, always sounds unique and fetching. Blue Note’s Currents, Constellations marks the debut of The Nels Cline 4, a quick-witted group featuring Julian Lage on guitar, Scott Colley on bass, and Tom Rainey on drums. Both guitarist and drummer had recorded with Cline before, whereas Colley is the novelty here,…

The play A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry is essentially about dreams. The main characters struggle to deal with the brutal positions that they are put in, eventually having to put off their dreams. The title of this play credits a theory that Langston Hughes possesses in his poem, “Harlem”, where he wrote about dreams that were forgotten or delayed. He pondered if having a deferred dream is similar to having a dream shrivel up “like a raisin in the sun” (Langston Hughes). All…

Amber LaCourt ENG 0235 Professor Jackson 3/24/18 Response Paper #2 In the short story“Sonny’s Blues” written by James Baldwin exhibited the struggles of young African American male taking on the weight of the world on his shoulders. Some common themes that are present in this short story are the idea of independence, rebirth, the relationship between his brother Sonny, and the blues. The unnamed narrator throughout the short story expresses the struggles with dealing with his…