On October 27‚ 2016‚ Vanderbilt University gathered three of popular music’s top writers and biographers to discuss the state of music scholarship. Towards the end of the discussion‚ Dylan Goes Electric and Escaping the Delta author Elijah Wald interrupted the proceeding to personally and publicly thank his co-panelist Peter Guralnick. According to Wald‚ Guralnick in his two volume biography transformed Elvis Presley from a bloated and bedazzled caricature lazily revising his past on the glitzy
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especially with my all-time favourite band. The sweet angelic voice of the vocalist that soothes any bad day when your hear it‚ those harmonious beats the drummer makes‚ those smooth bass sounds the bassist makes‚ those amazing rhythms the guitarist plays and everything that the band does is just so perfect. You may not know this band because unlike Justin
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Notable events on October 18th‚ 1926. Queen Marie of Romania arrived in New York on the SS Leviathanon the first day of her visit to the United States and Canada; she was welcomed with a ticker tape parade attended by thousands and Wilhelm Marx succeeds Hans Luther as Chancellor of Germany. The American economy was thriving in 1926 after the post WWI production boom. The individual worker productivity would rise an incredible 43% over the course of the decade. The stock market was approaching an
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of reggae drumming is that the drum fills often do not end with a climactic cymbal. Wide ranges of other percussion instrumentation are used in reggae. Bongos are often used to play free‚ improvised patterns‚ with heavy use of African-style cross-rhythms. Cowbells‚ claves and shakers tend to have more defined roles and a set pattern. The bass guitar often plays the dominant role in reggae‚ and the drum and bass is often the
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How Gerard Manley Hopkins vividly portrays the beauty of pied things? The poem ‘Pied Beauty’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins uses an array of ways to show vivid beauty in this small text. He uses ways such as intense imagery‚ sound effects such as the rhythm and alliteration. The word pied just means 2 different shades of colours‚ meaning that the title just means the 2 different shades of beauty. Beauty can be both seen as internal and external. This poem shows that everything is made by god so praise
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similarities and differences. Regarding similarities‚ both artists heavily incorporate elements of the blues. In both versions‚ the artists use standardized lyrical patterns with guitar breaks in between. Moreover‚ both employ handclapping to the overall rhythm of the song. Lastly‚ the guitar and drums are used to accompany the singers in both versions. While there certainly are some similarities‚ the differences between the versions are much more evident. For one‚ the lyrics are different. In Big
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My great-grandmother‚ Margaret Brogan‚ immigrated to the United States from Ireland when she was twelve years old. When speaking to her about her musical traditions‚ she was very proud to claim that her Irish descendants laid the groundwork for what is known as today’s country music. This was a little known fact to me and I decided to explore her claim further. Irish Immigration to the United States As early as 1717‚ waves of Scots-Irish immigrants were making their way into North America. By
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Name: Erika Villafuerte Per:1 Date: April 11‚2013 Dear Memorial Committee‚ Have you heard of the king of rock ‘n’ roll?? You may not have known that Elvis Presley did not just eat penut butter sandwitches all day long‚ he also enhanced the American dream in more ways than one. Do to his influences on americans he is a perfect candidate for a beautiful memorial from your committee. Elvis would lead to equal rights for white and black people. He brought african American
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Manley Hopkins‚ S.J. (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet‚ Roman Catholic convert‚ and Jesuit priest‚ whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially sprung rhythm) and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse. About The Poem "Pied Beauty" is a curtal sonnet by the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889). It was written in 1877‚ but not published
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introduction and the “Praise him” conclusion. Hopkins introduces the concept of deism so early on because his mentality of nature being so elegant and flawless leads him to believe that only divine intervention could have created something so pleasing. The rhythm present in the poem never loses its slow‚ gentle flow‚ using only two full stops in the entire poem‚ to simulate the atmosphere of a calm scene in nature. Furthermore‚ the entire poem paints images spread across the whole colour spectrum. From “brinded
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