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influenced by this infectious music‚ and started to enjoy it. Many white people also discriminated against blacks and treated them as less than equal. A goal for an artist named Billie Holiday was to make America listen to the cries of a black man‚ a black man who was just lynched. Jazz music had to be recognized with its roots. Billie Holiday believed Jazz music had to defend the black people. No better way of being heard than through the voice of Holiday. She attempted to fight for black rights through
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which hosted major jazz clubs during the swing and the bebop era. Minton’s Playhouse a Harlem jazz club that saw the emergence of bebop and hosted artists such as Dizzy Gillespie‚ Charlie Christian. the house band included Thelonious Monk on piano‚ Joe Guy on trumpet‚ Nick Fenton on bass‚ and Kenny Clarke on drums. Billy Strayhorn famous for his collaboration with Duke Ellington. Billy Berg’s jazz club in Hollywood. Lionel Hampton one of the first to use the vibraphone in jazz. Part of
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Harlem in 1920. Billie Holiday was born on April 07‚ 1915 and died on July 17. Billie holiday was a great jazz singer. Strange Fruit was a good song. Billie Holiday once said‚ “If you copy it means you’re working without any real feeling” what she is saying that if you copy you have know feelings. Harlem Renaissance was a place to show people talent in the 1920’s. It started in the 1920’ s and ended 1930. It happened in Harlem‚ New York. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement. Billie Holiday‚ W
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descendants. (Field hollers and ballads) * AABA song originated in 1920s-1950s in New Orleans * Birth Place of Jazz: New Orleans Two musicians from there? Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Mort. * First Jazz pianist and composer-arranger was Jelly Roll Morton. * Father of Jazz? First great soloist? Louis Armstrong * First “cool” jazz musician was Bix Beiderbecke. He played the trumpet. * Dixieland front line? Trumpet‚ clarinet‚ trombone. Combo= * Collective improvisation
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“Under the Bridge” – Red Hot Chili Peppers Analysis In this song‚ the lead singer‚ Anthony Kiedis‚ is describing how after a drug addiction he moved to a different city to start a new life. This relates to Holden in Catcher in the Rye because after he was kicked out of school he had a hard decision to make. He either could go to his home before his parents knew about the expulsion‚ or he could run away to New York. Anthony and Holden both choose to go to the city. Also in the song and the book‚
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can relate ourselves to all or parts of it. I advocate justice and I want to be very clear that justice and equality are not the same thing. The song demonstrates this idea very nicely and that’s why it’s epic to me. As the name indicates‚ Billie Joe Armstrong(vocalist‚ Green Day) has described the album as “the snapshot of the era in which we live as we question and try to make sense of the selfish manipulation going on around us‚ whether it be the government‚ religion‚ media or frankly any form
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History of Jazz Midterm 1.) Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was an American jazz composer‚ pianist‚ and bandleader who has been one of the most influential musicians in jazz. The Duke has released countless albums and songs‚ but not many know of his triumph as a musical theatre composer. Duke Ellington’s 1941 Jump For Joy was the first theatre show to openly discard the African- American stereotypes which prevailed in the arts at the time. In fact Jump for Joy openly discussed these stereotypes
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known as the birthplace of jazz was New Orleans. There are many important names that people still know today from the jazz ages. One important name during the jazz age was Louis Armstrong is known for many Jazz songs like “What a Wonderful World”‚ “When the Saints Go Marching In” and “Go down Moses.” Another name was Billie Holiday and she was known for “God Bless the Child” and “Billie’s Blues.” The other name was Duke Ellington‚ who have many recordings like “Take the A Train”‚ “Black and Tan Fantasy”
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the freedom of millennials is being taken away. Songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong makes reference to engaging in the political system throughout the lyrics to “American Idiot”: “Don’t want to be an American Idiot.” In other words‚ Armstrong believes an American Idiot can be one of the American public who is brainwashed into the hypocrisies of corrupt government‚ feeding into what keeps them unaware of their surroundings. Presuming Armstrong is correct‚ then today’s young adults must find a better way
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