The first framework is African-American, with the multiplication of works of jazz that has mobilized the Spanish musical universe since the mid-fifties. The second is European, with the long Western tradition of Spanish orientalism that flourished in the XIXth century. The central purpose will ...
Essay on Miles Davis and the Evolution of Jazz Who was Miles Davis and why was he such an important element in the music of Jazz? Miles Davis, as we would know him, was born Miles Dewey Davis in Alton, Illinois on the 25th of May 1926 to a middle-class black family.. A couple of...
“call and response of the black church, the joy and pain of the blues, the jive talk and slang of the hipsters and jazz musicians, the boasting of street talk, the sidesplitting humor of comedians, and the articulateness of black activists.” All of these African American oral traditions,...
Music is a key element of African-American culture. During slavery, many blacks sang Negro spirituals and call-and-answer songs while working on the fields. They sang songs such as “Wade in the Water” and “Michael Row the Boat Ashore,” which people continue to sing today. During the ...
both jazz and blues were created and developed by African American. Especially the Jazz that derived from folk music deeply changed people’s aesthetic ideas toward music. At the same time, it further probes into the trend and thread of the modern music development. Thus it is of practical si...
A story about nine African-American teenaged boys who are wrongly accused of raping two young white women in 1931, every single element of 'Scottsboro' is carefully manipulated to make you reflect on your sense of what is right, what is wrong, what is comfortable, what is entertaining and ...
Ursula has performed her work at an array of venues, universities and festivals including the Montreax Jazz Festival, the 1999 Winter Music Conference, the Theater of the Living Arts, the Painted Bride Arts Center, and Drexel University. Ursula has toured with Jamaaladeen Tacuma, SYLK130, and ...
3. In other words, I am primarily interested in a critical discussion of the (collective) self-understanding(s) of artists involved in UR. Understood as one foundational element of identity politics, ‘self-understanding’ can best be defined as “one’s sense of who one is, of one’s so...
We began by investigating the Africanist aesthetics of jazz dance to better grasp how each element influences the feel of jazz as it exists within various jazz dance styles. To differentiate between the styles, we deciphered how the Africanist aesthetics blend with Europeanist aesthetics and ...
came from a mixture of backgrounds with a lot of recognizable differences that changes musical traditions from the soulful sobs of sable street merchants in the 18 hundreds in Philadelphia to the contagious movement to the sound of Motown. African American music has been heard in all of America ...