St. Louis Blues

have the blues? It can be described as a feeling of grief or loneliness and having internal despair. Having the blues can be temporary, just due to having a bad day. One can feel permanent blues due to emotional baggage from the past or outside forces causing stress to a person. Nevertheless, the feeling of blues was first expressed through various worksongs and spirituals sung by displaced Africans during the American slavery period. Black writers soon expressed the blues emotion through blues…

Jones ' Trouble In Mind (1926), is Ursa 's way of singing about her blues and rebelling against her families wishes of “Keeping Generations.” The lyric that Ursa sings to herself at Cat 's home, “taking my rocking chair down the river and rocking my blues away” (Jones 1924), is symbolic to how Ursa feels when she sings at Happy 's bar. Singing in front of a crowd gives her a sense of happiness and a short-term escape from her blues mindset. Ursa wants to break away from the male dominated world…

1870. This panting’s color schemes is polychromatic. It contains different hues such as green, yellow, and blue. Those hues that used on the painting are cool. Also there are secondary colors. The panting used dark green color in the trees that behind the river, and this creates values and distance between mountain and the land. Additionally, this painting used intensity to brighter the blue color that used on the mountain let me feel that is main…

Colors help people understand the world around them. Colors can tell people how someone is feeling, if something is cheerful or gloomy and just an overall sense of mood. In F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, color symbolism plays an important role in the understanding of the characters. One color that plays a very important role in the novel would be the color green. Green is important in The Great Gatsby for many reasons. On reason would be Daisy’s green light at the end of her homes…

when both their families moved away. Years later in October 1960, they happened to bump into each other at a train station. Jagger was a student at a school for economics in London and he had his own band called Little Boy Blues and the Blue Boys. Jagger was a huge fan of blues music and Keith Richards was more of a fan of Chuck Berry’s style of rock and roll. After Jagger and Richards talked, he soon joined Mick’s band. Later while going around some…

While scanning through the radio, one might hear samples of songs by Florida Georgia Line, Eminem, Bob Marley, and Led Zeppelin in quick succession. Not surprisingly, we are able to easily identify what type of radio station we are listening to after only a few seconds (just enough time for a few lyrics and chords to be played). To help provide deeper insight as to why this is possible, Jennifer C. Lena extensively studied the idea of musical genres as a way to help organize and understand…

Rock and Roll Rock and roll was born in the United States in the mid 1950's, crossing racial and geographical lines. This major music genre has spawned many kinds of rock such as: hard, soft, acid, metal, Southern, jazz, blues, punk, pop, gospel, etc. as listed on Wikipedia website of List of rock genres. (Wikipedia.org). According to our textbook, The World of Music, rock and roll was influenced by "R & B and country and western - one especially black, the other white." (123). The…

In the song The First House in Connaught/ The Copper Plate Reel, Seamus Ennis used the uilleann pipes to make a unique song. This song has a dance rhythm of reel. Reel is the most popular dance rhythm; it has an even rhythm with duple meter. Its form consists of AA’BB. The Dingle Set, the chieftains used different instruments such as the tin whistle, fiddle, accordion, wooden flute, banjo, concertina, and bodhrán. The Chieftains also used the uilleann pipes like Seamus Ennis. This song also…

Artistic signing is the use of American Sign Language (A.S.L.) to interpret the Arts, such as music, theater,visual arts and so on for all mediums. In the case of music, if deaf people are in the audience, then the interpreter can help them by signing the lyrics. That way they can provide a better experience for them. Ms. Parker, a Texas native, and members of her Austin-based company, LotuSIGN, had interpreted more than 20 bands’ sets for deaf and hard of hearing festival attendees that…

style reminiscent of the Chicago electric blues. Other hard rock entries include “Rock & Roll”, a song born from an improvised riff off of another song on the album, “Four Sticks”. “Rock & Roll” is based on the 12 bar blues progression and is a testament to the progression’s continued impact on rock and a testament to the blues-based…