Josephine Baker was born in America in 1906, but her career was centered in Europe, and most particularly in France. After a few Charleston dance performances in America, she decided to go to Paris to join the
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His work in the 1960s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer", while his individual style melds a jazz background with African rhythms. He is credited as a pioneer of drumming in genres like jazz fusion, heavy metal and world music.Baker began playing drums ...
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Alma Thomas was an African-American artist born in Georgia. In 1907 her family moved to Washington, D.C., seeking relief from the racial violence in the South. Thomas was a creative child who always had an interest in art. As a girl, Thomas dreamed of being an architect and building br...
【2】The couple became separated in the African forest, probably because .A. one of them left to talk a bath B. they didn’t have a good meal for daysC. either of them had lost his/her way D. they have nowhere to stay for the night【3】The underlined sentence in the last ...
Sidney Poitier, who transformed African-American representation in film with his 1963 Academy Award win inLilies of the Field, faced harsh rejection early in his career. His first audition was a disaster due to his thick Caribbean accent, prompting the director to suggest he pursue dishwashing ins...
[阅读理解] Winslow Homer was a famous American painter. Since Art History class in college,I had always admiredhis works andI was lucky to see a large exhibition of his works when I was in my early 30s. It was at this event that I bought a print of his painting “Snap the Whip”....
African Period In 1907, after numerous studies and variations Picasso painted his first Cubist picture - “Les demoiselles d’Avignon”. Impressed with African sculptures at an ethnographic museum he tried to combine the angular structures of the “primitive art” and his new ideas about cubism. ...