... to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain."" Like Baldwin's evidence, parts of Walker's evidence are also very personal. She uses evidence that relates directly back to her personal life. Mainly that of ... these women were "there was never a moment for her to sit down, undisturbed, to unravel her own private thoughts."" Coincidentally and now similarly Baldwin and Walker both base their writing around the same sex parent. However, their other parents are both seldom mentioned. The main emphasis is Walker ... , but r...

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... and further to Chicago. Once in place, it took only a decade to become renowned a truly unique form of American music. Also, while W.C. Handy was responsible for bringing blues into the mainstream, blues was also being combined with another African influenced genre, ragtime, to create early jazz style in New Orleans. Primarily instrumental, ragtime was commonly performed on piano or arranged for ... meters or five against meters of eight "far more complex than European syncopation, which usually places four beat meter against eight. Thus, the combination of this complex meter and blues v...

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... for New Orleans traditional music during the Jazz Age. From this style four major types of jazz sprouted: Boogie-woogie, Chicago Jazz, Urban Blues, and Society Dance Bands. As mentioned before, the thriving night life guaranteed these musicians work, but the popularity of phonograph recordings also provided ... New York. During the 1920s, New York boasted numerous schools of jazz such as the Harlem big bands, the Harlem Piano School, urban blues, and society dance bands. It was also in New York that "spasm" bands began to catch on (Charters). The most creative period ... the center of ...

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... the song is often just a starting point or frame of reference for the musicians to improvise around. The song might have been a popular ditty or blues that they didn't compose, but by the time they were finished with it they had composed a new piece that often bore little resemblance to the original ... early 1900s as some dance band leaders in the southern U.S. began playing music that combined ragtime and blues. Early exponents of this dance music were Jelly Roll Martin and Scott Joplin, who were both blues players. The terms "Jazz" and "Jazz Band" first surfaced in the year 1900. Some ...

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... in 1956, Billie decided to share her lifestory with thee worrld. Her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues, with the help of Willian Dufty was written. Accompanying the autobiography, Billie released the album "Lady Sings The Blues". The album included four nonus records tracks, ""Lady Sings The Blues" (title track), "Too Marvelous For Words", "Willow Weep For Me", and "U Thought About You", as well ... . Holiday has been and continues to be an influence on many other performers who have followed in her footsteps. Her autobiography was made into the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues with singe...

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... origin date back to the 1890's, created in the heart of New Orleans by mainly those of Afro-American descent. Early exponents of this dance music were Jelly Roll Martin (a blues player) and Scott Joplin (ragtime). The terms "Jazz" and "Jazz Band" first surfaced in the year 1900. Some say this occurred in New Orleans, although similar music was played at ... were to be played. Throughout the history of Jazz, however, notation was more like a rough sketch. This was because the syncopated rhythms of ragtime and the melodic riffs of the blues were not easily notated. Also, early Jazz musici...

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... believed to be the fundamental rhythms of human life and is man's contemporary re-examination of his traditional values. The early influences of tribal drums and the development of gospel, blues and field hollers seems to point out that jazz has to do with human survival and the expression of human life. The origin of the word "jazz" is most often ... Europe. The popular music of the day had simple harmonies and simple rhythms. The black tradition depended more on spoken conduction and was represented by field hollers and later the blues. At this same time, four million slaves had becom...

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... called the Hot Fives and Sevens, which gave him a lasting name. These recordings were some of the most famous made by Armstrong, including "Mandy Make up Your Mind" and "Money Blues" (Bergreen 96). . "The Five dozen records generally titled the Louis Armstrong Hot Fives constitute one of the most significant bodies of American recorded music." (Collier P. 169) These records were immediately ... ...

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