Patriotic music has been and always will be a foundation for America’s spirit and pride. Since the day America declared independence‚ Americans have relied on this music to inspire and pay tribute to those who fought and served for our country. The land of the free and the home of the brave has been celebrated for years with awe-inspiring music that touches the hearts of all who are fortunate enough to be a part of this land. Majority of patriotic music was written due to the conflicts
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Better Together brings together a dozen case studies of successful community-building efforts in the United States. The book is an outgrowth of the Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America‚ a three-year dialogue among leading thinkers and activists about how to build and strengthen the American community (though it bears little resemblance to the Seminar’s final report of the same name). As Robert Putnam and Lewis Feldstein note in the book’s opening pages‚ the stories in the book represent
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Music Technology in Modern Society Im here to talk about the positive and negative effects technology has had on the modern society of today. I will will first be explaining the the historical background of music technology and how it has accelerated over the years. One of the most earliest recording inventions was made in 1857 and it was invented by Edoured-Leon Scott‚ it was called the phonautograph. It was the first device that could capture sound waves in the air. Its main use was to
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Bring Back Flogging This essay by Jeff Jacoby illustrates an authors use of ironic sarcasm otherwise known as satire to defend and illustrate his platform on his position. Jacoby uses in this essay verbal irony (persuasion in the form of ridicule). In the irony of this sort there is a contrast between what is said and what is meant. Jacoby ’s claim in simple is he believes that flogging should be brought back to replace the more standard conventional method of the imprisonment of violent
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WHO GAVE BIRTH TO HOUSE MUSIC‚ WHAT HAS INFLUENCED ITS CHANGES AND WHAT HAS DERIVED FROM IT? 11th December 2008 Word Count: 1675 INTRODUCTION As it was known for the culture to build music‚ nowadays different kinds of music build different cultures. Thus we have Pop culture‚ Rock culture‚ Electronic music culture etc. As part of Electronic dance music‚ House music has managed to‚ over the years‚ develop its own culture. It became
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Rock and roll music is loud‚ fast‚ and exciting. But believe it or not‚ without the simple twelve-bar forms and walking bass lines of blues music there would be no Jimi Hendrix or Led Zeppelin. Rock was born from blues‚ and the key components of the blues can still be found in rock‚ like the instrumentation‚ musical form‚ and purpose. Blues music really gained popularity in the 1930s and 40s‚ but it’s a combination of things much older than this. Blues emerged in the late 1800s as a distinct African
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In today’s society music is all around us. Music penetrates our lives and resonates throughout civilization. For the entire course of the history of the earth‚ music has existed and evolved. Music is definitely a big part of my life and if my life was a movie‚ the soundtrack could be comprised of many songs‚ but I chose only three. I chose these songs with a combination of attention to the lyrics as well as my personal taste in music. There are definitely songs out there that I enjoy more than these
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Jonathan Neuman Historic Traditions 3: World Music Final Presentation / Paper Northern Indian Hindustani Music Thaats The musical tradition of Northern Indian Hindustani music is built on different conceptions of musical components than our traditional Western music. Notation of this music is a relatively new endeavor‚ starting in the 1900’s. Previously the music culture was a tradition passed down orally from a guru or a shishya. The notation of the music today is known a relatively non-standardized
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Throughout the past few decades‚ our music taste‚ along with our society‚ has developed into an expressive community. People of all ages have been using music to express themselves for thousands of years. The 1920s‚ as well as 2000s are prominently known for their groundbreaking new sound. The two were ferociously popular in their time‚ but how can two genres‚ each with a different sound‚ be so popular? The purpose of the composer‚ instruments used and the sound produce‚ are vastly different between
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Ragtime Music – The Beauty of Syncopation Ragtime originated in the 19th century from the combination of African and European musical ideas in the southern states of the U.S. The music was more a result of experimentation and informal learning by example‚ often by self-taught musicians who played in streets and bars. This relaxed folk music became formalized into Ragtime by composers like Ben Harney and Scott Joplin who played the music to large audiences and published it so that its popularity spread
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