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  • 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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    Essay Length: 690 Words / 3 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 669 Words / 3 Pages
    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
  • Music Review Paper

    Music Review Paper

    C.D. Term Project 1. Me Veras Caer, Soda Stereo. 1986. The song by Soda Stereo, Me Veras Caer, represents many things about my self. First of all, one: I am Hispanic. Second: I am of argentine background. Thirdly and most important, the song lyrics are rather motivating, hence the title of it, which is translated to, “ you will watch me fall.” The reason it is motivating a song and motivating for me is because,

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    Essay Length: 908 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Can the Music Industry Change Its Tune

    Can the Music Industry Change Its Tune

    1) The value chain of the music industry includes the artist, recording company, physical product, advertising, distribution, & the retail stores. For many years the music industry has had only one main form of product: CD’s, tapes, or records. However, in the past several years peer to peer networking services such as Gnutella, Napster, & Kazza have created a new form of product: digital copies of the music files. These peer-to-peer networks allow users to

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    Essay Length: 900 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Music

    Music

    It has been years since I wrote anything at all, although people do see me writing odd pieces of music. But this time I am writing about my past, the past that seems so far away and forgotten. I know that this account is hardly going to interest anyone, but I do need to share my feelings with someone, or in this case, with something. People see me as a berserk creature talking garrulously of

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    Essay Length: 475 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Top
  • The Ring Critique

    The Ring Critique

    The movie “The Ring” was a horror film that I found to be a major disappointment. The opening scene is probably one of the best in the whole movie, which in my opinion is pathetic. When the young girl in the beginning was killed seven days after watching the tape because her “heart stopped” after seeing Samara, I thought to myself “Wow, this may turn out to be an interesting movie,” but they ruined it

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    Essay Length: 473 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Jack
  • Ever Heard of Chance Music?

    Ever Heard of Chance Music?

    aleatory music (ā'lətфr') [Lat. alea=dice game], music in which elements traditionally determined by the composer are determined either by a process of random selection chosen by the composer or by the exercise of choice by the performer(s). At the compositional stage, pitches, durations, dynamics, and so forth are made functions of playing card drawings, dice throwings, or mathematical laws of chance, the latter with the possible aid of a computer. Those elements usually left to

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    Essay Length: 587 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Jack
  • Classical Music

    Classical Music

    The classical music period coincided with a revolution in thought called the age of enlightenment, which focused on the search for intellectual freedom. Unlike the preceding Baroque music which emphasized textural intricacy, classical music is characterized by it's near obsession with structural balance and clarity, however many other elements were integral to forming the musical foundations for the Classical period. The music of this era began with a pre-classical, somewhat transitional music style called Rococo

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Bred
  • Comparison of the Use of Music in the Major Religions of India and China

    Comparison of the Use of Music in the Major Religions of India and China

    Music gives us the capacity to express the deepest feelings of the human soul.” Worldwide, music has an important and varied range of application in religious practice. In the major religions of Asia, music is an especially vital part of theology and worship. In India and China, the most prominent religions are Hinduism, Daoism and Buddhism. Hindu religious chant and music are firmly rooted in theological principles of sacred sound. Taoist music is commonly

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    Essay Length: 1,466 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Vika
  • The Strathmore Experience: A Musical Awakening

    The Strathmore Experience: A Musical Awakening

    Holding truth today and in the past, attending classical concerts is hailed as a sign of both sophistication and style. Very reminiscent of 18th Century attendances at places like the Music Center at Strathmore, my noteworthy experience broadened my musical horizon. As a newcomer to classical concert-going, I was enthralled by the aural masterpieces and the alluring atmosphere. In partaking in the National Philharmonic’s opening concert of the year at the Music Center at Strathmore,

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    Essay Length: 924 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Jack
  • History of Jazz and Classical Music

    History of Jazz and Classical Music

    History of Jazz and Classical Music Upon entering a modern record store, one is confronted with a wide variety of choices in recorded music. These choices not only include a multitude of artists, but also a wide diversity of music categories. These categories run the gamut from easy listening dance music to more complex art music. On the complex side of the scale are the categories known as Jazz and Classical music. Some of the

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Music as an Aesthetic Experience

    Music as an Aesthetic Experience

    The introduction of Donald J. Funes’ book Musical Involvement addresses the topic of music as an aesthetic experience. The preface to the introduction is the realization that truly listening to music requires an active response, and this type of listening is not innate. All throughout the day we are bombarded with music and every day sounds, most of which remain in our periphery. It can be difficult to focus on a single event such as

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    Essay Length: 1,352 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Victor
  • Moulin Rouge: An Expression of Love Through Music

    Moulin Rouge: An Expression of Love Through Music

    In the spectacular movie, Moulin Rouge, Bazz Luhrmann created a formalistic musical about freedom, beauty, truth and most especially, love. In this movie, he creates a fictional storyline about love relative to a few historical events that occurred during the early 1900’s in Paris’ well-known nightclub, The Moulin Rouge. Although the events all through out the movie are portrayed in a sense of fantasy through a remarkably choreographed comic musical and melodrama, Luhrmann is still

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    Essay Length: 481 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The Prestige Movie Critique

    The Prestige Movie Critique

    The Prestige is a great movie and it has many similarities and differences to the movie Citizen Kane. The PrestigeЎЇs starts up with an eye grabbing scene where a man is murdered after performing an Ў°electrifyingЎ± magic trick while another man watches him die. This is much like the beginning of Citizen Kane, where a man also dies, but not as exiting as in The Prestige. The beginning of Citizen Kane is more mysterious and

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Getting Help in the Music Business

    Getting Help in the Music Business

    The music business is a vast and complicated district of an even broader trade. When people go into the music business, it is very easy to get lost in the glitter and fantasy of being a music super star. But, before they start to achieve any of these dreams, they have to know a thing or two about the occupation. An artist manager can make all of this material less difficult and complicated. The

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    Essay Length: 2,318 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Artur
  • Piracy in the Music Industry

    Piracy in the Music Industry

    Introduction The piracy of copyright protected digital goods is a large and growing problem in the music, computer software, videogame and film industries. Digital piracy includes the purchase of counterfeit products at a discount to the price of the copyrighted product, and illegal file sharing of copyright material over peer-to-peer computer networks. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) claims that about 34% of all recorded music products sold worldwide in 2004 were pirated

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    Essay Length: 2,355 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Good to Great Critique

    Good to Great Critique

    Summary In 1996 Jim Collins asked the question, “Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?” (Collins, p195) Collins and a dedicated band of 22 researchers set out to discover what transforms good companies into truly great companies. Their criteria for greatness was tough: The researchers sought companies that had underperformed the general stock market for at least 15 years, then went through a transition, and subsequently outperformed the general stock

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Wendy
  • A Critique of Starry Night and Vincent's Chair

    A Critique of Starry Night and Vincent's Chair

    A Critique of Starry Night and Vincent's Chair One of these Post-Impressionists was the Dutch artist, Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh believed that art was a form of expression. Painting was an emotional and spiritual experience for him. He painted not only how he interpreted his surroundings, but his sensations and feelings on his subjects. One of his most famous paintings, Starry Night, is a perfect representation of this Post-Impressionistic style of painting. With its

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    Essay Length: 577 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Mike
  • The History of Swing Music and Dancing

    The History of Swing Music and Dancing

    The period of the 1930s and 1940s is known as the Swing Era. Big bands like Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, and others became household names and music icons ("Jazz History- Swing"). Swing music was a trendy style of jazz, while swing dancing was very popular and performed in many dance halls. As they became more widespread, both became a vital part of America. The 1930s brought a style of music that was possibly

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Top
  • Future of Music

    Future of Music

    From folk-blues singers like Huddie Ledbetter (a.k.a. Leadbelly) to modern day hip hop artists like Common, Talib Kweli and the Roots, the folk music of the African-American communities has embodied the struggle of the marginalized worker in America. Probably the most influential figure from this time was folk-blues musician Huddie Ledbetter (a.k.a. Leadbelly). Leadbelly (1888-1949) integrated old gospel tunes, blues, folk, and country music into a sound that was entirely his own. Born onto a

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Janna
  • Music Cencorship

    Music Cencorship

    Music Censorship Is censorship of music a constitutional infringement? Without violating civil rights, is it possible to protect younger citizens against vulgar, violent or otherwise inappropriate material. For hundreds of years, people have been kept away from what they could see, hear and think. Music censorship has been a part of our civilization since music became an organized art form (Lang and Lang). In western culture, it is only in the past century that artists

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    Essay Length: 1,188 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The Guardian: Humanist Critique

    The Guardian: Humanist Critique

    The Guardian: Humanist Critique In the movie The Guardian there are two main characters, Ben Randall (Kevin Costner) and Jake Fischer (Ashton Kutcher), who believe that everything is all about them. When Jake first arrives he tells Captain Frank Larson “That guy who holds all them records? I just thought you outta let him know I’m about to knock his name off that board.” He believes that everything is about him. Later on in the

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Max

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