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  • Caribbean Calypso Music

    Caribbean Calypso Music

    “Cent, five cents, ten cents, dollar.” are the words of a famous calypso song. The Oxford dictionary defines calypso as a “West Indian song with improvised, usually up to date words.” Calypso rhythms can be traced back to the arrival of the first African slaves brought to work in the sugar plantations of Trinidad. Forbidden to talk to each other, and robbed of all links to family and home, the slaves began to sing songs.

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    Essay Length: 406 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Emergence of Musical Film and Its Influence on Society

    Emergence of Musical Film and Its Influence on Society

    Essay Question: Critically discuss and describe the emergence of musical film and its influence on society. “The musical is one of the most popular film genres among both audiences and film scholars, probably for many of the same reasons - the spectacle, the music and the enjoyable predictability of the outcome weighed against the pleasure of the varied details.” Bill Marshall and Robynn Stilwell A proverb once claimed that “in life, you are either being

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    Essay Length: 3,457 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Monika
  • Censorship

    Censorship

    Well, this weeks discussion is about censorship in school newspapers. When I first thought of the idea of writing about it, I thought it would be easier than the last one we did about gun control. And it turned out it was a little bit easier in writing it because in this one I don’t have to ramble about all the statistics that I learned about the subject and end up boring the class

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    Essay Length: 747 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Internet Music Downloading

    Internet Music Downloading

    Internet Music Downloading In today’s world music is a core part of being a college student. You see proof of this on a daily basis by the thumping bass from your neighbor’s room or the headphones visible from an MP3 player on students while walking to class. But where are all of these students getting all this music from? Another core part of being a college student is being continuously broke. With CDs costing upwards

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    Essay Length: 1,595 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Steve
  • Music

    Music

    Music has always been a part of African American culture. It was originated by enslaved Africans in the southern United States and was composed, played and sung in several forms. In African music, in both its original and its various Americanized forms, different beats are frequently superimposed, creating powerful polyrhythms that are perhaps the most striking and moving element of African music. Music was used as a way of expressing feelings and to get through

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    Essay Length: 345 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Anna
  • Discuss the Impact of Digital Technology on the Production and Distribution of Music.

    Discuss the Impact of Digital Technology on the Production and Distribution of Music.

    Over centuries past, music has seen leaps and bounds in the enhancement of theory, instruments, and recording arts. The first major leap was the invention of the piano in 1709 by Bartolomeo Cristofori. From that first major step came the introduction of electronic instruments short after the harnessing of electricity which came in the early 19th century. Soon after that came recording and then on to synthesizers and eventually digital recording. As computers were

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    Essay Length: 1,499 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Music Buisness

    Music Buisness

    MUSIC BUISNESS The Silent “ / ” Music, as all art, is subject to criticism, admiration, inspiration, and popularly, sale. Equally popular are answers to this such as “the media is an evil force that brainwashes the minds of any young listeners in its path!” Wait, isn’t that what angry parents were saying about rock and roll 5 decades ago? Statements such as those often prove irrational; so allow me to offer a second opinion.

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: David
  • Music Cafe Business Plan

    Music Cafe Business Plan

    Executive Summary 1.0 Executive Summary Music Cafй, unlike a typical record store and cafй, will provide the consumers an atmosphere they have never experienced before. Through its aggressive marketing tactics the company will attract high traffic of consumers in the community, mainly college students, to create an outstanding place to socialize, drink coffee, listen to and buy music. Music Cafй consist of two venues, one is a record store and the other is a cafй.

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    Essay Length: 987 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: David
  • Authentic Music

    Authentic Music

    The argument concerning whether music can be authentic or inauthentic has been debated for many years. In Ralph Ellison's essay "The Charlie Christian Story," he argues that there is true music and imitative music. In his essay he states that, "true jazz is an art of individual assertion within and against the group." Although Ellison talks about jazz, I believe that the word jazz can be replaced with the word music to make the statement

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    Essay Length: 754 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Janna
  • 20th Century Music

    20th Century Music

    By the turn of the century and for the next few decades, artists of all nationalities were searching for exciting and different modes of expression. Composers such as Arnold Schoenberg explored unusual and unorthodox harmonies and tonal schemes. French composer Claude Debussy was fascinated by Eastern music and the whole-tone scale, and created a style of music named after the movement in French painting called Impressionism. Hungarian composer Bйla Bartуk continued in the traditions of

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    Essay Length: 408 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Drexel Music Program Essay

    Drexel Music Program Essay

    Music in My Life Since my youth I have been obsessed with music, singing, listening, and playing. It wasn't until the sixth grade that I could truly begin the journey which would allow me to express myself musically. I received a saxophone for Christmas and began taking lessons at Settlement Music School, while I do not play anymore, the saxophone helped me understand and develop a learning process for music. After one year of saxophone,

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    Essay Length: 317 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Vika
  • Search Engine Censorship in China

    Search Engine Censorship in China

    Everyone knows that Google is one of the top search engines on the internet and they are a highly respected and established business. Their respect may have gone out the door in China because of what they had done back in 2004. The major search engine decided to give into the Chinese government and Google.cn was censored. Nobody knew that it happened until they decided to use the search engine and tried to search for

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    Essay Length: 907 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Edward
  • Censorship

    Censorship

    From the beginning of modern civilization, books have been an important and revolutionary source of human knowledge. Unfortunately, it has become a growing trend to censor books for a variety of reasons. Several of these reasons, which include protecting children and omitting offensive material, are not only arbitrary but are without merit. This is because sheltering children is not beneficial to the children, and also it is impossible to shelter kids without resorting to isolation.

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    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Nondiegetic Music of the Doors in the Scene Waiting in Saigon

    Nondiegetic Music of the Doors in the Scene Waiting in Saigon

    Nondiegetic music of the Doors in the scene waiting in Saigon Sound plays a significant part in all movies and one of the most interesting of all the sound techniques would be the use of nondiegetic music. In the movie Apocalypse Now, there is a double disc soundtrack with thirty tracks on it. The one song on there that has the most meaning would The Doors song “The End”. This song not only set the

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    Essay Length: 1,345 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Back to Black Music Review

    Back to Black Music Review

    Back to Black happens to be the second album by the British boozer, Amy Winehouse. It is one of those albums for people who are fond of banging beat about a lovesick bad girl. Back to Black represents Winehouse as a blunt person, who is not afraid to disclose her personal mishaps like struggle with alcohol or a breakup from which it has been hard to recover. The whole album brings back the late sixties

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    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Music and Death

    Music and Death

    Aspcets of Death and Dying 1/18/02 Music and Death: The Songs and Deaths of Rockstars That Have Shocked the World Music as we know it today is the voice of a generation. It gives us entertainment, and speaks out for a community of people in many ways. Most people listen to at least some sort of music, and serves a purpose in almost every facet of society. Just about any expression can be shared through

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    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Mike
  • Unique American Culture and Blue Ridge Folk Music

    Unique American Culture and Blue Ridge Folk Music

    The Unique American Culture and Blue Ridge Folk Music Class:Regional American Culture When we define American culture, we use “Melting pot” which describes unique characteristic of American culture. Many people from diverse countries are living in America. As they have lived together, they made distinct culture that all of culture each people have is conflated. Above all, the conflated culture makes new culture which has ever existed before so that we regard American culture as

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    Essay Length: 1,253 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: July
  • Music and Culture

    Music and Culture

    In today's modern world, music encompasses almost every form of media. It is everywhere; it is played outside and inside stores, on the television, at the movies, on the computer, in elevators, and can also be heard coming from around the heads of most teenagers. This is not a bad thing per say, but it can very easily be. A growing amount of music now features many themes that are far from favorable. In times

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    Essay Length: 434 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Mike
  • Music Evolution

    Music Evolution

    Music Evolution Oh, darkeys hab ye heerd it, hab ye heerd de joyful news? Uncle Abram's' gwine to free us, and he'll send us where we chuse, For de Jubilee is comin' don't ye sniff it in de air! And sixty-three is the Jubilee for de darkeys eb'ry where! (Greene) Black music throughout the past couple of centuries has changed in many ways. It started out as a basic way to communicate, and then evolved

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    Essay Length: 391 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Music Production

    Music Production

    What Is A Producer? The music producer is to a record (CD) what a director would be to a film. The producer directs the entire operation of recording and readying the song(s) for release. The producer is responsible to get the performances recorded and the technical work done on the release, within the deadline and within the budget. The job is both creative and technical. For an overview of the job, see Cornbread's tip on

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    Essay Length: 1,162 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Grime Music and Society/politics

    Grime Music and Society/politics

    Bow's message to Blair Everyone loves Dizzee Rascal but does anyone listen to a word he says? Dizzee Rascal's triumph in Tuesday's Mercury Music Prize was a momentous victory for one British teenager. But the 19-year-old MC's debut album, Boy In Da Corner, carries a sobering message, which is at risk of being drowned out by the applause. Listen to the lyrics and ask yourself this: how can a country with a welfare state produce

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Intunes in Brazil - the Itunes online Music Store Feasibility Study

    Intunes in Brazil - the Itunes online Music Store Feasibility Study

    INTUNES IN BRAZIL THE ITUNES ONLINE MUSIC STORE FEASIBILITY STUDY TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 INTRODUCTION 3 MACRO ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS 7 MARKETING MIX 5 HOFSTEDE MODEL ANALYSIS 6 BEHAVIORIAL IMPLICAITONS 7 CONCLUSION 8 INTRODUCTION The landscape of music industry sales has changed within the last 5 years with the changing technology innovations of computers and the dependency on the Internet. The issue of competition has leveled out due to the

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    Essay Length: 4,873 Words / 20 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Artur
  • Music’s Ability to Shape People and Culture

    Music’s Ability to Shape People and Culture

    Music's Ability to Shape People and Culture The lights blind me. I shake as the sweat pours from my head while everybody stares at me, judging me, and listening to me. The monitors in front of me hiss and explode with vibrations, the rhythm section is pulling behind me, and the room is packed to the brink. There is smoke in the air along with the ecstasy that seems to electrify the room and feed

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    Essay Length: 955 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Napster - Treble in the Music Industry

    Napster - Treble in the Music Industry

    Treble in the Music Industry Close to four months ago, when I heard the word ‘Napster’ I thought it was a new phrase for telling people they had nappy hair. I had no idea what it was, but yet I heard everyone around me talking about it, so I surfed on the internet and decided to check it out. I went ahead and downloaded it the program, not knowing four months from now Napster

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    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Music Education in Our Public Schools

    Music Education in Our Public Schools

    Music Education in our Public Schools Music Education is no doubt a necessity to the students of today. Music plays a major role in everyone's daily life. Music is listened to while driving in the car, when eating in restaurants, relaxing at home, and even when on hold to a company's overloaded phone system. Music is everywhere you turn, and it should be one of the main subjects to be studied in our public school

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    Essay Length: 1,223 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Mikki

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