“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything”, Plato said. Why the famous guy, Plato, say things like that? Since I was born until now, the world is fulfilled with music everywhere. Yes, everywhere. Why music is so importance? Today, I will tell you the role of music which can affect to human body and life. According to the research I found, it showed that music can cause at least 3 effects to human bodies. Even it is a little thing of
Music Analysis Essay Hip-Hop vs Jazz! Because of their iconic artistic legacy and their instinctive affection for music, African Americans have been in authority for the growth of two of the most widespread music genres: Hip-hop and Jazz. These two genres are closely joined because they share so many characteristics, Brendt Peter in his article mentioned hip-hop as the “jazz of the younger generation” (Peter, B. 2013). Hip-hop artists not only sampling Jazz records, but also hiring Jazz musician
Universities : An Ethnomusicological Perspective. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 22 Feb. 2015. This particular source provides information about the different universities in America that display the importance of how impactful Western African Drumming and Dance is to other countries besides Africa. The programs are not only for the black community, but it is also dispersed through other racial backgrounds. This book also explains the core meanings of
America’s Most Prized Possession In her essay The Female Body, Atwood talks about the many ways the female body is portrayed and used. Atwood is a feminist who believes that women are superior to men but are viewed inferior by society.. She uses a sarcastic tone to explain her beliefs and keep the readers attention. Atwood explains the uniqueness, beauty, and difficulties of America’s favorite and most prized possession...the female body. In the first paragraph, Atwood uses alliteration, and parallelism
childhood. Although the film was known for its narrative structure, there were other key elements used in order for it to be the super hit that it was and still is up to date. Some of those elements are mise en scene, music and sound, and editing. This essay will show how mise en scene and music in the party scene worked together to reflect Kane’s happiness after he brought in member’s from the rival newspaper into his company. French derived expression mise en scene (placing on stage),
1800’s, blues music made celebrities out of black composers such as W.C Handy and singers like Bessie Smith. For Hughes, jazz and blues music had a different sound and meaning to him. Hughes liked to “record his poetry with jazz bands, most notably Charles Mingus in 1958 on the album Weary Blues” (Tkweme 503.) The blues poem is one of the most popular types of American poetry. According to the Academy of American Poets, “It comes from the African American oral tradition and the music tradition of
This essay will be discussing and unpacking the issue around the argument made by Paul Gormley about the Black Realism and how that concept is shown through the two chosen films Boyz in the Hood and Tsotsi, and how although each film are different in context, they have similarities especially with the topic of black masculinity. This essay will argue the various layers that are tackled in the discussion of black masculinities, and how the characters within both films are portrayed as such to support
Professor Ferris discusses the music on the record on Voyager 2, a spacecraft that was launched into outer space more than 30 years ago. He describes the careful selection process of the 27 pieces that were put on the record and the importance of each piece, or “why” of their selection. Professor Ferris only spoke positively of the music selection and voiced his personal opinion as to why the music selected was chosen, which could be considered bias. This radio broadcast
football alone, while only providing the drama department with $1,500. In fact, each of the visual arts programs only receive around $1,000. While many programs out of school allow kids to participate in sports, rarely are there any that involve acting, music, and art. The art programs,
distribution. It stands among the behemoths of our generation in regards to economical importance, artistic representation and general entertainment of the populace across the entire world. Hollywood and has established an immense industry on conventional filmmaking, but many films and art pieces have broken the conventions set by this industry or have simply been around before genre conventions have been established. This essay will examined several influences for the conceptual Idea of our film: "Slam!"