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    Reggae: the Music of Protest

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    Lake Tanganyika. Others say that it is a corruption of the word streggae‚ which is Kingston street slang for prostitute (The Origins of Ska …‚n.d.). On the other hand‚ Bob Marley claimed that the word was Spanish in origin‚ meaning "the king’s music." Veteran Jamaican studio musicians offer the simplest‚ and probably the most logical‚ explanation. "It’s a description of the beat itself‚" says Hux Brown‚ lead guitarist on Paul Simon’s 1972 reggae-flavored hit‚ "Mother and Child Reunion". "It’s

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    Westboro Baptist Church has the right to protest military funeral are protected by the First Amendment. Although it is within the legal rights of the Westboro Baptist Church‚Picketing at military funerals is neither ethical nor justifiable. The church members should realize the unnecessary harm they have imposed on so many innocent people. Protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church‚ reviled for such acts as showing up at the funerals of U.S. soldiers with signs reading "Thank God for Dead Soldiers"

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    Music: Music Analysis

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    MUSIC Music seems to play an important role in the lives of many individuals. It is used for entertainment in listening and performing. It can bring about an array of emotions such as joy‚ sadness‚ passion and love to name a few. Music is used to soothe the grieving‚ set the mood for romance‚ reduce stress and lift the spirits of many. Overall‚ music serves an important purpose in the lives of many individuals and is used to set the mood in a variety of situations. Music is significant to the

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    hearing the phrase “protest song” I immediately thought of songs and chants that are sung during picket lines and at rallies. I first believed that protest songs must directly address an issue that the artist or group of people wish to see changed in the near future. After doing some research I found that protest songs do not explicitly state that they are wishing for change. The song “Paper Planes” by M.I.A‚ or Mathangi Arulpragasm‚ is by my definition of the phrase‚ a protest song. This song was

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    Music As is known to us all‚music is such a broad topic to interpret that I can not introduce it to you in detail‚ so today I just talk about music in my eyes. Here comes the first question:Do you like music? Many people like music.There are many different types of music all over the world: Classical music‚Folk music‚Soft music‚Light music‚Blues‚ Country music‚ Children’ s songs‚Jazz‚ Pop music‚Rock & Roll and so on. So what is your favourite kind of music? Soft music is graceful;rock

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    Music

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    Music comes from the Ancient Greek muses‚ who were the nine goddesses of art and science. Music actually began around 500 B.C. when Pythagoras experimented with acoustics and how math related to tones formed from plucking strings. The main form of music during the Middle Ages was the Gregorian chant‚ named for Pope Gregory I. This music was used in the Catholic Churches to enhance the services. It consisted of a sacred Latin text sung by monks without instrumentation. The chant is sung in a

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    Music

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    Music From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search For other uses‚ see Music (disambiguation). [pic] |Music | |[pic] | |A painting on an Ancient Greek vase depicts a music lesson (c. 510 BC). | |Medium |Sound | |Originating culture

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    Music is found in every known culture‚ past and present‚ varying wildly between times and places. Since all people of the world‚ including the most isolated tribal groups‚ have a form of music‚ it may be concluded that music is likely to have been present in the ancestral population prior to the dispersal of humans around the world. Consequently music may have been in existence for at least 50‚000 years and the first music may have been invented in Africa and then evolved to become a fundamental

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    Protest Song

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    article “The Return of the Protest Song”‚ Tillet writes about the turnback of protest music after their downstrend in 1960s and the redenifition of the kind of music. The coming back is the responsibility of the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. They use music to say and express their aspiration of Civil Right. In the same time‚ hiphop was seen as a new form of political music‚ and it has an important influence and spread quickly. Before 1960s‚ writers wrote music lyrics base on political

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    Learning to perform music develops many skills in a student; music affects people intellectually‚ emotionally‚ physically‚ personally and socially. The theory of music is an intellectual skill‚ governed by physics yet guided by how humans perceive sound. Music theory is more often taught in a classroom setting similar to other school subjects‚ although its lessons permeate (and assist) musical performance as well. Emotionally‚ no subject matches music in its expressive breadth. The organization

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