... and expressive, with a slide on almost every pitch. For example, the correlation, between the lullaby sung by Zulu women, and the performance of blues singer, Bessie Smith, is striking in its similarity. Also, the African scale, which contains notes flatted on the 3rd, 7th, and sometimes 5th degrees, is directly translated into blues music, which also incorporates slides into its instrumental form ... . The inception of this particular singing style and scale in blues became the catalyst for the genres that followed it. Developed in the rural ... mainstream, blues was also being combine...

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... to Chinese traditions. She struggles to identify herself between the culture that exists in her home, and the culture that exists everywhere else. In the beginning of the story we find out that Jing-Mei's mother lost everything in China - her parents, first husband, and, the most important, her twin daughters. ... that she cannot become somebody else. She struggles to understand who she is, an obedient Chinese child, or a self-minded American. This conflict creates a lot of frustration for Jing-Mei, and as a result she chooses to passively rebel against her mother by not doing what she is...

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... new form, such as Charlie "Bird" Parker (alto sax), Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), Thelonious Monk (piano), Bud Powell (piano), Miles Davis (trumpet), and Charles Mingus (bass). The standard ensemble became a quintet, consisting of piano, bass, drums, reed instrument, and trumpet. (Erenberg). The distinguishing factors of the bop style were: notes that were more far-reaching, and which Garner 2contained a rhythm that was looser and more complex. Instead ... of the traditional stressing of the first and third beat of a measure, as in traditional Western music, bop music stresses the second ....

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