Chapter 1 Listening to Jazz McGraw-Hill/Irwin © 2013 McGraw-Hill Companies. All Rights Reserved. Overview Jazz has been described as “America’s Classical Music” - the first musical style to have a specific American Identity. 1-2 Jazz developed out of many diverse musical and cultural influences at the beginning of the 20th century. 19th century photo of a group of African American Minstrels 1-3 The absence of recordings or written examples of the earliest jazz results in subjective historical
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Taste of Gumbo‚ effectively represents form and composition. Gardner explains that form “refers to an object’s shape and structure” and composition “refers to how an artist composes (organizes) forms in an artwork” (7). Colescott’s complex piece of art conveys a sense of African history and racism in America. It “addresses the African roots of a popular American food that French colonists claimed to have invented” (de Young‚ Colescott). The subject of the painting is based off of African gumbo‚ a food
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Commanding Heights Episode 1 Summary Stephanie Watford The first episode of Commanding Heights begins by showing a world with a global economy that is then torn apart by World War I. Following World War I two young economists emerged that hoped to solve the world’s economic troubles‚ John Meynard Keynes and Friederich Hayek. Keynes put forth the belief that a government in times of economic despair should spend money and go into a deficit in order
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ANTH M01 Online Name: Messinger Film Assignment‚ “Nova Becoming Human Episode 1: First Steps” The following assignment is based on the film “Becoming Human Episode 1: First Steps.” You may access the film in the following ways: 1. It is available for free on the PBS website at the following address: http://video.pbs.org/video/1312522241/ 2. It is available instantly through Netflix (where you may temporarily set up a free account for a few weeks if you are not a member). Please
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traditional fantasy‚ science-fiction‚ or horror. The paranormal genre is a very unique and different type of genre you do not see very often and in this novel‚ you really experience that characters are not very fair to one another. In Burn for Burn you witness a lot of changes within the boundaries of the protagonist’s feelings. In this novel you get a greater understanding of the protagonist’s past‚ how she got where she is now‚ elements of her past which make her the person she
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History of American Jazz Appendix A: Understanding Jazz -Americas art form -European- African musical traditions -Hard to define Defining Jazz Improvisation- spontaneous and simultaneous composing and performing Rhythm- a unique interaction with time involving: -syncopation‚ -jazz swing rhythm Dissonance- extending common rules of music; “pushing the envelope” Jazz interpretation- a unique way of producing sound and phrasing melodies Interaction- listening to and reacting to musical
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EPISODE 1 FS 6 On Becoming A Teacher ------------------------------------------------- “THE TEACHER AS A PERSON” Name of FS Student: Catherine Q. Pagdato Course & Year: BSED – 3 Resource Teacher: Rosie P. Pastolero Signature:_______________ Jerly M. Charlon Signature:_______________ Mrs. Gelda P. Estopil Signature:_______________ Cooperating School: Kalilangan National High School Your Target At the end of this activity‚ you will gain competence in clarifying
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Lm89Jazz Jazz is a genre of music that originated in African American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. It emerged in many parts of the United States in the form of independent popular musical styles‚ and it is linked with African American and European American music. Jazz since its birth have changed and faced with improvisations starting from ragtime till the modern style of the jazz. The birth of Jazz in the multicultural society of America has led intellectuals from around
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Jazz Concert Review #2 I attended a jazz concert on November 3rd at the Frontenac Grill. The band‚ Joe Bozzi and I‚ played all kinds of music for us while this place was filled with various groups of people eating‚ drinking and chatting. This band played their songs by using three guitars‚ drums‚ saxophone‚ trumpet‚ xylophone and the piano throughout the whole entire time. The first song called‚ “Through the Eyes of Love‚” was played from the movie called The Ice Castles. This song started off
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“A Distant Episode” written by Paul Bowles recalls the story of a professor who is captured by the Reguibats‚ a nomad tribe. As the story began‚ it focused on the professor and his journey to find an old friend; however it took a turn when the professor was turned over to the tribe. This short story has similar aspects when comparing it to The Heart of Darkness‚ by Joseph Conrad. The ideas of cultural imperialism‚ the climax and the idea of people going insane are resembled in both pieces of literature
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