Tango is a dance that started in South America and moved to Europe and the world. It has it start in the low-class society in Argentina and Uruguay and now it’s mostly dance by mid and high societies around the world. This paper will be focusing on a brief introduction about the history of tango and the different styles of tango such as: Tango Milonguero‚ Ballroom tango‚ International tango‚ American tango‚ Filipino tango‚ Tango Nuevo‚ Finish tango and finally the Argentinean tango. Tango is a dance
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I actually had an entirely different blog post in mind‚ but after the Chicago incident involving the assault on a special needs man it was difficult to write about anything else. Writing about anything else felt like a personal waste of time as this incident is truly what is on my heart and brain. I am assuming you have seen the news about the four assailants who physically and emotionally assaulted a young man with special needs. If you want you can read the story here. I’d rather not plunge
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Samba and Tango - A Comparison Curitiba Travel Blog › entry 1 of 1 › view all entries June 29th‚ 2006 – by: philgadomski The samba and tango are very unique styles of music that developed in Brazil and Argentina respectively. Despite their similar origins and evolutions‚ these music styles still have their differences‚ and are as different as they countries whose culture and history they now greatly represent. The following examines the similarities and differences of the samba and tango. As
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“Oklahoma! Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.” These iconic song lyrics are from the chart-topping musical Oklahoma!. This musical introduced‚ the now idolized‚ Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein (Brockett pg. 462). Rogers and Hammerstein wrote the musical‚ in hopes of making it on Broadway. Instead‚ they wrote a musical that started the next great era to sweep through Broadway. The Golden Age of Broadway was the beginning of a transformation that would later lead to one of the most
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Historical and Cultural context of the Musical Hairspray The Buddy Dean Show which was a teen dance show in Baltimore is memorialized in the musical and film by John Waters‚ Hairspray. The plot of this story revolves around an attempt in which teens from both backgrounds in Baltimore integrate successfully in a teen dance show called The Corny Collins show. There was a massive cultural revolution in musical taste in the ‘50s and ‘60s that was signalled by teens from the big band sound of rock and
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message through art. In this case though‚ Hairspray has been the selected piece I’m choosing to write about. It is considered to be a flashy‚ catchy‚ musical that ultimately hits on racial segregation and inequality. In this paper‚ I will be covering different material ranging from the actual background story of the musical‚ the themes the musical is trying to convey‚ information on John Waters (the man who started it all)‚ some elements of set design‚ and the overall influence Hairspray has had
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The musical production Rent is Jonathan Larson’s adaptation of Puccini’s ‘La Boehme’‚ and was set in New York in the early 1980s (Encyclopedia of World Biography‚ n.d.). The musical has a variety of characters: straight‚ gay‚ lesbian‚ cross-dressing‚ and bisexual. Many of the cast’s characters have HIV/AIDS. Larson personally identified with the musical‚ as he too had several friends that had HIV/AIDS who had then later passed away from the disease (Encyclopedia of World Biography‚ n.d.). HIV/AIDS
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Wicked: A “Wonderful” Musical! On March 17th‚ 2017 I saw a phenomenal musical called Wicked. The theatre it was playing in was the insert theatre in London name here in London‚ England. The musical was extremely touching and brought the audience to tears because of the magnificent acting and beautiful voices. The actors hooked the audience from the first line of the show and kept them in their grasp until the final bows. Wicked is set in the land of Oz and is about two girls in university who despise
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States‚ one state and city that is always mentioned is Illinois‚ Chicago. It is usually used as a tool for politicians and media outlets to combat racial inequalities‚ and police brutality against blacks and minority group by presenting skewed statistics about black on black crime‚ or poor living conditions in predominately black neighborhoods. But if were where to looks at UCR data and compare the crime trends in the city of Chicago over the period 2012-2014 with the national average for the same
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third lines all end with a word that rhymes with “pan” and the fourth and fifth lines of each stanza rhyme with each other (independently from stanza to stanza). The consistent patterns and repetition throughout “A Musical Instrument” make it feel like just as the title states: a musical instrument. This piece utilizes a few more poetic devices as well. The line “The limpid water turbidly ran‚” (ln 9) is an oxymoron. Limpid means clear and turbid means muddy. Browning uses this to again emphasize
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