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  • 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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    Essay Length: 531 Words / 3 Pages
    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
  • Indian Music

    Indian Music

    The music of India is one of the oldest unspoken musical traditions in the world. The basis of for Indian music is “sangeet.” Sangeet is a combination of three art forms: vocal music, instrumental music (Indian music). Indian music is base upon seven modes (scales). It is probably no coincidence that Greek music is also base upon seven modes. Furthermore, the Indian scales follow the same process of modulation (murchana) that was found in ancient

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    Essay Length: 1,171 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Development of Newspaper Magazines and Books

    Development of Newspaper Magazines and Books

    Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing (Wikipedia). Printing is a name used for several processes by which words, pictures, or designs are reproduced on paper, fabrics, metal, or other suitable materials. This consists essentially of making numerous identical reproductions of an original by

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    Essay Length: 1,965 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Yan
  • Hip Hop Music Mirrors All Urban Society

    Hip Hop Music Mirrors All Urban Society

    Hip Hop Music Mirrors All Urban Society From 1950 to the late 1980’s, social conflicts all over the world encouraged the success of Hip Hop due its ability to mirror the negative and positive aspects of society, and in doing this, the concept of Hip Hop’s real lyrics were very easily translated and adopted overseas. To understand Hip Hop’s ability to migrate around the world, it must be understood what Hip Hop was created out

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    Essay Length: 3,388 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Janna
  • Shared Music

    Shared Music

    Shared Music It’s something every person has been through before. Your favorite artist or band is playing a concert in your hometown. You purchase tickets and head down to your local music store to get their latest album. It contains fourteen of their recent new songs and costs in the vicinity of seventeen to twenty-five dollars. And those tickets go for about thirty-five dollars a piece. Doesn’t it seem like the price of good music

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    Essay Length: 600 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Edward
  • Music Today: Entertainment or Influence to Murder?

    Music Today: Entertainment or Influence to Murder?

    Music Today: Entertainment or Influence to Murder? Teen violence, murder, suicide; they seem to be becoming more and more rampant everyday. The media, as well as concerned, angry parents, look everywhere to find someone to blame for these tragedies. Their fingers are pointed in the direction of many music entertainers. Artists and performers are being badgered everyday for their lyrics and image they create for their fans. Can music really influence someone to acts of

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    Essay Length: 1,871 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Music Censorship

    Music Censorship

    Albums with explicit lyrics or content started having black and white parental advisories on them in 1994 (http://www.riaa.org/Parents-Advisory-4.cfm). Are these labels necessary? Is controversial music molding our society and causing teenagers to turn to drugs? Is censorship necessary to protect the youth of our nation. Generally, younger people are against censorship on this issue. Music is an outlet and even an anti-drug for many teens -- however, parents and society feel differently. Should parents censor

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    Essay Length: 1,880 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Popular Music Under Siege

    Popular Music Under Siege

    POPULAR MUSIC UNDER SIEGE Beginning in the 1980s, religious fundamentalists and some parents' groups have waged a persistent campaign to limit the variety of cultural messages available to American youth by attacking the content of some of the music industry's creative products. These attacks have taken numerous forms, including a call by the Parents' Music Resource Center (PMRC) for the labeling of recordings whose themes or imagery relate to sexuality, violence, drug or alcohol use,

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    Essay Length: 851 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Yan
  • Blacks Not on the Covers of Magazines

    Blacks Not on the Covers of Magazines

    Blacks Not On Covers of Magazines! Think about being at the grocery store at the check out line where the magazines are located. How often are African Americans or minority cover models showcased on the cover of magazines? Not often. This issue is what David Carr presents in his essay, ЃgOn Covers of many Magazines a Full Racial Palette Is Still Rare.Ѓh Carr feels that blacks and other minorities are not represented enough on magazine

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    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: regina
  • Why I Want to Be a Music Teacher

    Why I Want to Be a Music Teacher

    It was a cold average day in mid January as I walked to my piano lesson. As we started the lesson, my piano teacher leaned over and began to tell me about a piano competition and the winners perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City. I said sure, not believing I would make the cut in a hundred years. Three months later the time for the competition had come, I was told that there

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    Essay Length: 511 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Jack
  • 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: January 9, 2010 By: Max
  • Music of Rhcp

    Music of Rhcp

    Flea's bass style is an amalgamation of funk and blues, borrowing from artists such as Bootsy Collins of Parliament-Funkadelic and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin. The groove-heavy, low-tuned melodies, composed through either normal finger style or slapping, have contributed to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' signature style. While Flea's slap bass style was prominent in earlier albums, later albums (post "Blood Sugar Sex Magik") have more melodic basslines. The guitar styles of the guitarists

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    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Mikki
  • An Assessment of File Sharing in the Music Business

    An Assessment of File Sharing in the Music Business

    An Assessment of file sharing in the music business An Assessment of file sharing in the music business and online music piracy, and its ethical implications regarding consumers, musicians, and record companies Background "In traditional ethical studies, the classic problem is the starving man - can a starving man ethically steal a loaf of bread if he has no money. The modern version is evidently, can the person who wants to listen to music steal

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    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Anna
  • Are the Measures Taken Against Illegal Music Downloading Effective?

    Are the Measures Taken Against Illegal Music Downloading Effective?

    Introduction When a commercial about the release of a new album is seen or heard, most people run to their computer to download it, instead of run to the store and buy it. According to a Belgian broadcasting company, VRT, the profits of music sales fell worldwide by 4% and this only in the first 6 months of 2006. In the opinion of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, this decline is due to

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    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Janna
  • Punk Music in the 70’s and 90’s

    Punk Music in the 70’s and 90’s

    Punk music has gone through an evolution ever since the punk explosion in the late seventies. Although today’s punk music retains most of the ideology and sound that defines the punk genre, there are some distinct differences between Nineties and Seventies punk. Most of the punk bands to emerge and gain popularity in the nineties mostly hailed from California (Green Day, the Offspring, etc.). Punk vanguards from the seventies hailed from the East Coast

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    Essay Length: 1,419 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Against Illegal Music Downloading

    Against Illegal Music Downloading

    Flash back to October, 1997. The punk rockers who call themselves Green Day prepare to release the much anticipated follow-up album to Dookie, Nimrod. Every kid between the ages of 10 and 20 is ready to pounce on the album when it hits stores. Every one of my friends begs their parents to take them to the store on that cold Tuesday morning. The older kids ditch class to get in line at the local

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    Essay Length: 742 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Artur
  • Australian Music Industry

    Australian Music Industry

    Question 1 Australian music industry has not been substantially impacted by the digital music trend yet. But the symptoms of perceived impact can be felt by looking at the mass digital music adoption rate. Digital music has shown tremendous growth of about 250% of value $ 27.8 million and 320 % in volume till end of 2006. This growth has increased the share of digital distribution from 1.5 % in 2005 to 5.5 % in

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    Essay Length: 4,432 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Music and Connie

    Music and Connie

    Throughout the ages, music has been an important part of life. From the chants set to drums in prehistoric times, to the gyrating beats of modern day rock, music has influenced people in countless ways. In Joyce Carol Oates's short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” we see many references to music. From the beginning, the story is written in a way to suggest musical lyrics. Also, Connie, the main character, uses

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    Essay Length: 1,185 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Music Is an Art Form

    Music Is an Art Form

    TERM PAPER “Music is generally perceived as the most universal of all art forms.” The literal meaning of the word 'music' according to any dictionary is: 'art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds in a harmonious or expressive way.' But music has a meaning which is far broader than this. Music is life. Music means Self-expansion and oneness. It is an art by itself. Art, in any of its forms, is generated by a person,

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Top
  • Baroque Music

    Baroque Music

    Baroque music From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia •Jump to: navigation, search History of European art music Early Medieval (500 – 1400) Renaissance (1400 – 1600) Common practice Baroque (1600 – 1760) Classical (1730 – 1820) Romantic (1815 – 1910) Modern and contemporary 20th century classical (1900 – 2000) Contemporary classical (19 – present) Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical

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    Essay Length: 255 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Music Concert Report

    Music Concert Report

    Music History Concer Report On December 5th I attended a concert hosted by La Maison des Jeunesses Musicales du Canada in Montreal. The musicians were all students from La Conservatoire de Musique de Montreal. The compositions presented were three pieces by Johannes Brahms: Sonata in F major for �Cello and Piano, Op. 99, Sonata in F minor for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 No. 1, and Trio in A minor for Clarinet, �Cello and Piano,

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Music Therapy

    Music Therapy

    rynjulf Stige is the first Coordinator of the music therapy education program at Sogn og Fjordane University in Sandane, Norway, where he is an associate professor. With diverse experiences as a music therapist using a community based approach, Stige has written numerous articles and books on music therapy and music education. He is editor-in-chief of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, and co-editor (with Carolyn Kenny) of Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy. He

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    Essay Length: 628 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Mathematics, Education, and Music?

    Mathematics, Education, and Music?

    Mathematics, Education, and Music? This article is very interesting in bringing up points and ideas of mathematics that I had never thought of. Dr. Heinz Gotze states that Mathematics is much like music. After Beethoven would play, he goes on, people wouldn't say "Hey, what was the use of that?". People, however, constantly are trying to determine the purpose of mathematics. The truth is there is no set purpose. Math is not a well discussed

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    Essay Length: 314 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Edward
  • Medical Applications for Music

    Medical Applications for Music

    When someone mentions the word ‘music’ what the first thing that pops you’re your mind? Is it the subtle relaxing classical organ that blows through your mind or the hard grunge sound of a modern double bass drum? Everyone in the world, no matter what corner of the world people reside, listens to some sort of music or another. Be it rock, classical, rap, hip-hop, country, electronic or any of the other of the hundreds

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Bred

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