Stone Butch Blues

looking at all his brothers and sister in arms that lost their life. The fact that the narrator is sad is further attributed to by him saying “I’m stone. I’m flesh.” (Kom.5) the saying is very meaningful, it states that the man is made of flesh, but he feels like stone from surviving a war that lost so many people. When the soldier starts looking at the stone he flashes back to his time in the war and even says he is “Half expecting to find my own in letters like smoke.” (Kom.15) he touches the…

if the idea doesn’t appeal to you” (203). This shows how Cimorene persuaded Kazul to allow her to make Alianora marry the Stone Prince, also this shows the Stone Prince’s chivalry and valor because of how he asked her if she was willing to marry him and not be forced. If Cimorene hadn’t suggested that the Stone Prince had served Kazul, The King of Dragons, Alianora and the Stone Prince wouldn’t have had a happy ever…

they get a glimpse into someone else’s lives and get an idea of their own life. The Miller’s neighbors, the Stones, shine a light on the Miller’s life that they did not want to see. Throughout “Neighbors,” Carver uses The Stone’s life and apartment to help the Millers escape their uneventful life and learn more about themselves while changing. Before the Millers house-sit for the Stones, they both live…

together and a stone was created, she crafted 10 stones and placed them in a circle suspended in the nothing. The stones would represent the solid ground ones would stand on, and the solid ground beneath them even when they were too far away in their minds. She wept into the center of the ring of stones, and water filled the center. The water would fill their bodies and fuel the beings emotions, and fuel the life, the spirit, of them. The pond had been created and with the stone and water…

Without African music we would not have some of the most popular genres of music that we have today. African music influence helped create genres like jazz, gospel, blues, soul and even hip hop and reggae. The traditional song and dance created by native Africans spread all over the world as its fusion with other type of song helped create the music we all know and love today. The spread of the African music can be traced to the slave trade that shipped Africans all over the world. The one thing…

thoughts, Hughes felt a deep sense of passion to poetically write of the struggles faced by many impoverished African Americans. During the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes used poetry to convey the African American cultural through a rhythm and blues style about dreams, suffering, the soul, and America. Langston Hughes expresses his concerns of deferred dreams, which were lost during a depressive time in a short masterpiece called “Harlem”. This poem was published in 1951 when blacks…

Music has always played a big role in my life. Having been a dancer since the age of three I have come to appreciate and interpret many styles of music. As a dancer, I am able to use the music in a way that tells a story and portrays a certain emotion. Music much like dance is both an art form while still being able to fall into everyday life. I would define music as an expression of one 's emotions summed up in a two minute composition. I can definitely say I have personally had an aesthetic…

over the years, including Elvis, Madonna, and even Miley Cyrus. The 1950s introduced America to a new style of music called hokum blues that featured black artists who used double entendres in their lyrics (Covach, Flory 70). Examples include Big Mama Thornton’s “Hound Dog” and Big Joe Turner’s “Shake, Rattle, and Roll”. Filled with innuendos and metaphors, hokum blues introduced sexuality into popular music in the black community. The more mainstream, white version of this sexual image in the…

Ryosuke Koizumi Ethnomusic 50A Harrison Charley Oct 16, 2015 Ragtime and Blues Jazz is widely considered as the greatest form of African American music in the twentieth century, and it is distinguished by the originality of its improvisation, the virtuosity and erudition of its performers and composers and its professionalism and artistry. (Burnim 163) Although Jazz is one distinctive music genre, some of the other genre influenced the emergence of the jazz, such as African American traditional…

street clap and dance to the beat of the music. The lyrics speak of overcoming all and living in what seems to be such a distant world. The people enjoying the music are African-Americans and they are playing a genre known today as the Blues. The origin of the Blues genre dates back to the Atlantic Slave Trade, which took place from 1619 to 1809 and beyond. In order to get the cheapest labor for future plans in the New World, Europeans travelled to Africa in search of people who would soon…