Steven Bryant was born in 1972, in Little Rock, Arizona. He is the son of a professional trumpeter and a music educator. Bryant learned composition at The Juilliard School with John Corigliano, who won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize, at the University of North Texas with Cindy McTee, a composer, and at Ouachita University with Francis McBeth, a composer and conductor.…
Starting off as a radio station in 1925, the Grand Ole Opry has evolved into one of the most important places in country music. Not only is it a performance hall where you go to watch a concert, but it is a place to honor all of country music from the past and present and to create the future of country music.…
One of the greatest ragtime musicians is Scott Joplin who was born near Linden, Texas on November 24, 1868. He was called as “king of Ragtime.” According to Ragtime and the Blues the First Age of Black American Music, He showed his interest in music in early age, and he was lucky to receive traning from local black music teachers who taught his the basics of European classical music. He became something of a celebrity in the Texarkana area, and he determined to make his living at music. In 1888, when he was twenty, he left home to seek his music fortune. (Haskins) After several years, Scott’s ragtime music became very popular, but his wanted people to respect ragtime music as much as classical music. Some fifty-three years later, the music…
Folk music has been in the heart of the nation for generations. Early artists appeared around the time of the Great Depression as the voice of the nation and a shoulder to lean on. The 1960s was also an era of change and unrest, and like the artists that came before them, 60s folk artists represented the outrage and spirit of the American people.…
The Irish folk music and dance reveal a constant shifting of population through migration and invasions. Each of these peoples brought their preferred types of dance and music.…
Their African heritage and traditions were incorporated within many of their beliefs and music. They used music in important cultural tradition such as storytelling’s and sacred rituals. Slaves often sung spiritual songs in the fields while working to pass the hard times. The songs of slaves were hardly ever written down they were usually past down from generation to generations.( Brinkley 283-284) African Americans often created musical instruments out of left over materials they could acquire. The banjo was then created and became an important part of slave…
In this paper we will learn and compare two famous composers of patriotic songs Lee Greenwood and Irving Berlin. These brilliant men are both renowned composers, and through the years have created brilliant catalogs of songs. As we compare and contrast Lee Greenwood and Irving Berlin in this paper we will identify multiple areas of their lives such as marital status, song styles, and even heritage. I choose these two fine individuals and their style of music because this style and genre is a true reflection of my childhood and how I felt when I lived with my grandparents.…
band sang are a personal view of a Native American or Cherokee tribe. The lyrics…
Spirituals are religious folk songs that were created and first sung by African Americans in slavery around the 1860’s and passed along from one generation to the next. As the song(s) is (was) passed on, it starts to change. The changes that take place become a part of the original song and eventually the music takes on a different form. In the time of music making, Americans fought and won a war for independence while the rapidly expanding Black population remained enslaved.…
My topic is on the dances of the Ragtime era. During this era, many dances like the cakewalk, foxtrot, charleston, moonwalk, samba, waltz, tango, and etc. all began to rise and became more trendy between the years of 1895 to 1918. This era was known for its unexpected rhythmic dance steps. In addition, it became a real entertainment system for many people around the world. Ragtime era was the influential time for early jazz as well.…
D.C. has a strangely diverse field of music scenes such as folk, gogo, hardcore and house, each with a rich backstory about how they came to influence the D.C. area, and even the United States as a whole. One of the best examples of this is the story of Woody Guthrie and Alan Lomax.…
Throughout history, a Multitude of Cultures has brought about tradition’s that have had an immense influence on the world. As these traditions migrate from country to country, we are able to get a taste of these people’s origination as well as their values through music. I chose to research and compare Native American and Middle Eastern Music because I felt I needed to find a deeper understanding of these two cultures, given their current impact on my life.…
The growth of the American folk music reservoir is a process that counterparts the historical and cultural development of American society. In the formation of this reservoir, two major streams, British, African, and several smaller branches, e.g., German, French, Cajun Mexican, etc., flowed together over a two-century period (Malone, 1979:4). Alan Lomax, one of folk music 's leading historians, has detected that the merging of these miscellaneous elements has resulted in a cultural product, which is "more British than anything one can find in Britain" (1960:155).…
GREEN, John, Maggie Koerth, Chris Connolly, and Christopher Smith. Mental Floss: What’s the Difference?. USA: Harper Collins, 2006. This book describes the many differences involving Bluegrass and Country Music, such as the types of instruments each genre uses to play their music.…
that is good. In order to live harmoniously with one another, other cultures need to…