The Blue Room

To enter, you have to pass a row of ambulances that are lined up in the front. The automatic door, that is wide enough to fit a car, opens to welcome its guests with a perfumed scent. Many guests attend with their families and some guests even attend with literal broken hearts, in an attempt to repair them. Walking through the corridors, you start to feel a headache from the lights above you that make the corridor too bright for your eyes. The corridor, filled with stale air, has an undertone…

When you arrive at the library at the beginning of your off-period, you expect to leave about an hour later with a significant amount of work accomplished and with seldom left to do that night. However, in the library, there are people with the goal to cause a ruckus and prevent everyone around them from getting their work done. During the period, the librarian yells at least ten times about how loudly everyone is talking and how if the volume is not lowered, silent study will begin. You leave…

Picture a young, reserved girl sitting in a crowd of rowdy children all screaming about inconsequential things, her head ducked down as she explores a fascinating book. Now picture a noisy teenager, getting in trouble for talking too much to her best friend in the class. Think these are two different people? No, both of these girls were once a shadow of me fighting to take control of my personality. I had been quiet my whole life, feeling content with living life in the background. However, come…

don’t even know what they are for, but the one thing I know is that they avoid me from getting ill. I onced tried to avoid consuming those pills but the nurse suddenly caught me jamming them between my mattress and the base. She now never leaves the room until I show her the inside of my mouth to prove I have swallowed them. “Here,” an unusual looking nurse hands me a glass of water this time. She also handed me the pills one by one, unlike the other nurses who give them to me in one helping.…

Oh man that poster gives me the chills... pressure ulcers? That just sounds painful. 7:59: Someone is yelling for help down the hallway. A nurse runs into the room. The nurses here are starting to recognize me, it’s pretty funny. The nurse who always greets me in the morning just said “What you’d do? Stay all night?!” I was here yesterday afternoon and now this morning.. Funny. 8:00: There’s a nurse down the…

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…