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History Of Recorded Music
5,099 wordsThese are my rough unedited class notes representing general ideas and concepts for class lectures. Please ignore the many sentence fragments. The African-American culture of the southern plantation influenced the birth of the blues through the adaptation of their African musical heritage. Based upon a call and response structure, one slave worker would call or play a lead and the fellow workers would respond with the same phrase or an embellishment of that phrase. The music involved predictable...
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Music Industry For Its Members
8,754 wordsThis report will look at each association and organisation in turn and assess their relevance to an artist / writer running their own record label. The report will discuss the various aims, functions, purpose, finances and structures of each organisation while also showing what interest they have in intellectual property. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) was formally incorporated in 1973 when initially its aims were to combat the growing problem of music piracy. Since then, the BPI has re...
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Unreasonable Cd Prices Internet File
3,532 wordsSean Fanning had no idea of the amount of turmoil that the creation of Napster would cause. Full-length songs were being exchanged in a matter of minutes, and neither the artists nor the record companies were seeing a cent of it. With the widespread popularity of Internet file sharing the music population was divided. People either saw the program as a Godsend that would save them from wallet gouging CD prices or a new-aged form of robbery. From the money-hungry record company executive to the e...
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Proper Album The Best Of Van Morrison
4,495 wordsPeter Gabriel Peter Gabriel has earned a worldwide reputation for his innovative work as a musician, writer and video maker. When at school, he CO-founded the band Genesis which he left in 1975. His albums, live performances and videos since then have won him a succession of awards. In 1980, he collected together a group of people to found WOMAD (World of Music, Arts & Dance). In a series of international festivals, each year WOMAD brings together traditional and modern music, arts and dance fro...
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Same Thing To Hip
1,129 words... es of the hip-hop movement. Now, the songs the average hip-hop listener hears have generic scratches your younger brother could lay down on his Fisher-Price record player. Without much attention from outside the hip-hop community, dj-ing has become and has become an art form all of its own. Grandmaster Theodore may have invented the scratch while fooling around with his James Brown records in 1976, but in the past ten years Dj collectives such as the X-, Inv isbl Scratch Pik lz, and a wide r...
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Music Censorship
1,124 wordsCensorship of American Music Although is clearly states in the first amendment that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances", censorship in America still exists in a big way. I think censorship can be applied to almost anything, including music of all kinds. "Music c...
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Evening With Lena Horne
9,510 wordsSinger / actress Lena Horne's primary occupation was nightclub entertaining, a profession she pursued successfully around the world for more than 60 years, from the 1930's to the 1990's. In conjunction with her club work, she also maintained a recording career that stretched from 1936 to 2000 and brought her three Grammys, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989; she appeared in 16 feature films and several shorts between 1938 and 1978; she performed occasionally on Broadway, including in...
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Obscene And Rude Lyrics In Rap Music
2,181 wordsGangsta Rap and Violence Go Hand in Hand 'Mr. Officer, I want to see you lay in' in a coffin, sir,' from The Chronic and 'F -- - the police,' from N.W.A., are few lyrics from the music genre 'gangsta rap. ' This kind of music is being sold to young children without any thought of concern. When many children listen to this kind of music they think that was being said in the songs is not wrong or against the law. The lyrics in many songs contain violent and explicit lyrics that usually talk about ...
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Legendary Hank Williams And Mother
981 wordsHank Williams Jr. Jerry Erath Essay 4 December 12, 1996 Hank Williams, Jr. was meant to be a superstar from the day he was born. His father, the legendary Hank Williams, and mother, Audrey Sheppard, both played an intricate part in his early stardom. Hank had to overcome many obstacles in his life including escaping from his father's shadow and a near death experience in 1975. Hank's many triumphs, and his ability to overcome setbacks, have propelled him to a legendary status. Born May 26, 1949,...
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Ambitious New Record
1,197 wordsIn the early '90's, heavy music looked to be going the way of the dinosaurs: Well-heeled Brit-pop and well-scrubbed pop-punk were thoroughly dominating the guitar-rock landscape, and the few surviving old-school metal acts seemed hopelessly unable to adapt. But somewhere within the vast, murky Southern California wasteland, a dynamic new species was being born, a forward-thinking beast that disregarded the mistakes of heavy bands past while meshing dark, urban rhythms and low-tuned guitar sludge...
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Elvis Presley
2,570 wordsApril 22, 2005 America's King Elvis Presley may be the single most important figure in American 20th century popular music. Not necessarily the best and certainly not the most consistent. But no one could argue with the fact that he was the musician most responsible for popularizing rock & roll on an international level. Viewed in cold sales figures, his impact was phenomenal. Dozens upon dozens of international smashes from the mid-'50's to the mid-'70's, as well as the steady sales of his cata...
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Albums Of Stevie Wonders In The 1970's
723 wordsSteveland Jud kins Morris was born on May 13, 1950, in Saginaw, Michigan. He is more popularly known as Stevie Wonder. Stevie was blinded shortly after birth. His blindness was caused by a medical accident when he was born. He had to be put in an incubator and he didnt get enough air. In 1954 his family moved to Detroit. He developed his musical talent early in his life. By the age of 11 years old, he could play the harmonica and piano and he was a talented singer. Stevie was introduced to Motow...
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Ambitious New Record
1,165 wordsIn the early '90's, heavy music looked to be going the way of the dinosaurs: Well-heeled Brit-pop and well-scrubbed pop-punk were thoroughly dominating the guitar-rock landscape, and the few surviving old-school metal acts seemed hopelessly unable to adapt. But somewhere within the vast, murky Southern California wasteland, a dynamic new species was being born, a forward-thinking beast that disregarded the mistakes of heavy bands past while meshing dark, urban rhythms and low-tuned guitar sludge...
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Alexandre Rabinovitch Suite No 1
949 wordsRachmaninov - Suites Op. 5 & Op. 17 - Symphonic Dances Op. 45 TEL DEC Classics International (Catalog #: 9031-74717-2) Martha Argerich (Piano), Alexandre Rabinovitch (Piano) Suite No. 1 "Fantasie-tableaux" - Barcarolle, La nuit... L'amour, Les lar mes, Paques. (Also on recording) Suite No. 2 - Introduction, Valse, Romance, Tarantella. Symphonic Dances - Non Allegro, Andante con mo to, Lento assai. Sergei Rachmaninov was born on April 1, 1873 in Russia. As a child Rachmaninov had an extraordinary...
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Frank Sinatra
902 wordsBefore Tim McGraw, Led Zeppelin, and even before Elvis Presley there was Frank Sinatra. The man some say 'held the patent for the popular song'. During his career Ol' Blue Eyes had cut some 1,800 recordings, gathered nine Grammys, and was considered by many critics to be the preeminent singer of this century (CNN, N. Pag). Durring his long career he became on e of the most successful pop music figures of the century. Sinatra's sophisticated musicianship was evident in his many recordings. (Colum...
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Music As Literature And Art Music Lyrics
9,188 words. IN HEAD. AD Music and Censorship Victor Lombardi December 1991 Second Reader: Alan Stuart Instructor: Richard Hixon Introduction Our society today largely views censorship as a method that has disappeared from liberal cultures since the enlightenment with the exception of restrictions in time of war. The enlightenment served to cripple the intolerance of incisive religious and government leaders, but did not obliterate censorship altogether. Instead, the job of expurgating unacceptable ideas h...
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Musical And Social Vision Of Ruben Blades
2,058 wordsDuring the 1950's a man who revolutionized salsa with his incredible political conscious lyrics was born. To be more specific he was born on the 16th of July in 1948. He was born into a working family who lived in an old neighborhood in Panama. A mere boy at just four and he knew how to read and write because of his grandmother. His grandmother always stayed in his heart and was the subject to one of his future songs. Ruben Blades grandmother was an early feminist who sent only her daughters to ...
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45 Rpm The Vinyl Disc
655 wordsThe History of Vinyl and CD In 1877 Thomas Edison was experimenting with a new telegraph devise when he accidentally runs indented tin foil under a stylus. The resulting speech like noise encourages him to develop an instrument that can both record and reproduce sound. By the end of the year Edison had produced the first working phonograph able to 'store' and playback sound. Before Edison, others including Charles Cros had the idea, but were unable to fund them. 1885 Chichester Bell and Charles ...
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Marvin's Last Album
2,238 wordsLike Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra before him, Marvin Gaye's death has given him new life. Since his premature demise, interest in his art has only blossomed. "He's our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his contribution. He changed our musical world", says Steve Turner, author of Trouble Man: the Life and Death of Marvin Gaye (Turner, Introduction). Billboard magazine reports that since 1983, Marvin's name has been mentioned, in reverential tones, on no less t...
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Motown Record Company
2,408 wordsBerry Gordy Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 28, 1929. He was the seventh born out of eight siblings. His parents migrated to Detroit from Georgia during 1922. They were part of a mass exodus of African Americans who left the South in the 20's and traveled to northern cities in search of better economic futures. During that time jobs were plentiful in the factories, mainly the big four automotive plants that like, Chrysler, Ford, Chevrolet, and General Motors. Berry and Bertha Gordy...
