... Glamour in the 80's, no American institution has ever undergone such radical transformation in such a short time. Women's suffrage was not until 1920. Chuck Berry started it; Elvis Presley put a face on it. In the 1950's, Rock n' Roll was born. It emerged from rhythm and blues, a kind of music similar to jazz. This kind of music attracted teenagers. Disk jockey Alan Freed ... was probably the last gasp of Rock n' Roll. But Punk appeal was so anti everything it put itself out when it became popular culture. In the late 80's, MTV was born and corporations seized full control of Rock n' Ro...

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... and shock audiences. Nobody ever saw behavior like his in the 50's. He was the first to perform on stage and then set his piano on fire."" Jerry Lee was born on September 29th, 1935 at Turtle Lake on The Calhoun Plantation. He grew up on his parent's farm in the small town Ferriday, Louisiana. Jerry Lee is the second son ... time and combine them to create a style completely his own. "He was a creator in a world of imitators- said one fan. That is why Jerry Lee Lewis will be remembered with Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley, as one of the true fathers of Rock & Roll....

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... a whole new clientele. Wheatley's six-month-old Last Vestige site, for example, draws about 10 email requests a day, nearly half from outside the U.S., including Japan, Canada and Europe. Ditto for Chuck Haley, the mind behind the Flower Stop site. While the Colorado Springs florist concedes his online effort can't compete with big advertising-rich floral sites, he is still bully on ... ...

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... and who the mythical musicians of the rock music were? Let's flashback to 50's when rock music started to be showed off. Rock and roll had been first played by Chuck Berry in 1955. Berry was a black man. Even though a resistance against black musicians by the white people, the music industry soon understood that there was a huge place for black musicians ... ...

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... a kid looking up to me, life ain't nothin' but bitches and money" appalled many listeners with its profoundness and explicitness. In response to the controversy risen by Rap, KRS frontman Chuck D once memorably described rap music as "black people's CNN" - the only medium in which black voices could tell the truth in a white-dominated country". As Rap's controversial subjects and lyrics ... ...

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... Child, and India Aire. Other styles of music influenced by blacks are: a symphonic work composed by William Grant Still entitled "Afro-American Symphony." Rock-n-roll music (from its beginnings with Chuck Berry, to today's Michael Jackson), Hip-Hop music (with Sean P. Diddy Combs and Mary J. Blige topping the list, and the highly controversial style of Rap. But please keep in mind ... ...

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... type of work for women was extremely rare (Salm, 1). It is said that Caccini was the first famous woman composer known to history (Mann, 27). She was an Italian composer born in 1587 and died about 1640. This composer came from a family of talented musicians. In fact, her father was Guilio Caccini, a well-known musician and composer. One of his great ... first in history for women. She was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome, for her musical compositions (Krull and Hewitt, 79). Boulanger was born into a French family in 1893. She, like Caccini, was born into a musically talented fam...

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... type of work for women was extremely rare (Salm, 1). It is said that Caccini was the first famous woman composer known to history (Mann, 27). She was an Italian composer born in 1587 and died about 1640. This composer came from a family of talented musicians. In fact, her father was Guilio Caccini, a well-known musician and composer. One of his great ... first in history for women. She was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome, for her musical compositions (Krull and Hewitt, 79). Boulanger was born into a French family in 1893. She, like Caccini, was born into a musically talented fam...

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... music and perhaps his most well known song "Imagine" has evoked emotions of humanity including Christians. John Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, during WWII. Over his lifetime Lennon gained international recognition first as a musician but also as a humanitarian. Born and raised a Liverpool boy, Lennon started his first band at the age of 17, a band that would later become The ... fact that The Beatles seemed to have more influence on the youth of the nation than Christ. John Lennon's view of Christians began at an early age. Although Lennon was born into and baptized in the Anglican...

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... . Undoubtedly one of the most accomplished musicians of all time and the forefront leader of the jazz world. Duke didn't always have music on his mind though. Duke, Born Edward Kennedy Ellington was born April 29th ,1899 the son of James William Ellington and Daisy Kennedy Ellington. They lived In Washington, moving out of the deep south just prior to Dukes birth ... agent of his own band which enabled him to place the band in the best locations without the heavy fees. On March 11th, 1919 his son Mercer Kennedy Ellington was born. In 1923 Duke and his wife finally left Washington and wen...

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... played which was called jazz music. Still today he is known for his music and being one of the pioneer's of jazz and big band. In The Beginning Louis was born in the Storyville District of New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 4, 1901. He always celebrated his birthday on July 4, 1900 because his family told him that. It wasn't until he died ... on July 6, 1971 that people found out his real birth date. His father Willie, a laborer left the family soon after Louis was born. His mother Mayane, was a domestic servant and a part time prostitute. She left Louis and his sister Beatrice, also cal...

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... selling fabrics and spices; he had hoped Francis would follow in his footsteps. Pietro was frequently out of town on business, and this was also the case when Francis was born. Because of his father's absence his mother, Monna Pica named him John but when his father returned he quickly renamed him Francis. Francis had a rather happy childhood; he studied latin ... ...

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... were resurrected, such as Yale. In Pennsylvania the Moravians, the richest and most sophisticated musical culture in America settled in 1732. Here the first concerted sacred music in America was born, brass ensembles played for weddings, christenings, and funerals. In Europe, the average late 18th century composer wrote an occasional piece of church music between the symphonies, sonatas, and operas. The ... was the highest form of expression. Also this countries earliest and best instrument maker came to be such as David Tannenburg, a renowned organ constructor. In Pennsylvania the firs...

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Bob Marley Robert Nesta Marley was a reggae singer who was born in Nine Miles, Jamaica and raised in Kingston, Jamaica.(p.7 Upton) Bob later got interested in music and started a music group with some friends they called The Wailers. When Bob was ... young he often used music as an alternative to the harsh realities of life. Bob loved music and saw it as a way to reflect on and live life. Bob was born on February 6th 1947. His father was a general in the British army and he abandoned Bob and family. They had no contact for five years.(p.7-8 Upton) When Bob was five ... people of Jamaica whic...

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... first week sales of their latest album sold nearly three-quarters-of-a-million albums. But few people know about the true background of the Dave Matthews Band. Dave himself was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on January 9, 1967 to a family of four children. His family moved to New York several years after Dave was ... born. His father died when he was 10 and his family moved back to South Africa. So Dave has had his fair share of adversity. At age 19 he moved back ... ...

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... it can garner. The most popular and effective music there is will be the most personal; this is proven time and time again in the history of all music. Born of pain or born of joy all music carries some emotional weight, as Christians we seek to find ways to turn these emotional responses into a need for something more, either a realization of ... ...

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... , approximately 250 miles south of St. Petersburg Russia, in the government of Pskov, on March 21st, 1939. Musorgsky's father was Pyotr, who was initially a civil servant but because Modeste was born out of wedlock, had to resign his commission and instead, inheriting his family's estate, worked there. His mother, Yuliya Chirikova, was the daughter of a high-ranking government official and was ... ...

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... Greek sculpture style. When a female statue is done in nude it is identified as Aphrodite, the goddess of love. The Greeks had stories to explain how gods or goddess were born. The story for the birth or Aphrodite was believed to be from Kronos cutting off his father's body parts. Then he tossed the parts into the sea. The immortal flesh ... eventually formed into a circle of white foam which created Aphrodite. Her name actually means foam born. Many of the Greek sculptures have not survived, so Roman copies were made to allow them to be studied. In this museum, the Aphrodite stands wit...

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Buddy Holly Buddy Holly was born as Charles Hardin Holly. He was born September 7, 1936 in Lubbock, Texas. As a young child, Holly took lessons on the piano and the violin. However it was soon obvious that he only wanted to play the guitar. ... ...

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... Jean-Michel Basquiat and Stuart Davis. The influence is quite evident in many of their works, such as Horn Players, by Basquiat, and Swing Landscape, by Davis. Stuart Davis was born in Philadelphia in 1894. He grew up in an artistic environment, his father was art director of a Philadelphia newspaper, who had employed Luks, Glackens, and other members of the Eight ... forms. Early works depict saloons and ragtime musicians. Titles and images of his works in the 30's reflect syncopation and unusual rhythm of jazz, particularly swing . Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in 1960, four years bef...

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... (1600 ad. -1750 ad.). Johann Sebastian Bach was a forefather to music. Bach used notes and chords in his music, which to him was a machine of worship. Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685, in Eisenach, Thuringina, into a family that over seven generations created at least fifty-three outstanding musicians. He first received musical training from his father, Johann Ambrosius ... the Church of Prince Ernst of Weimar, but later moved to Arnstadt, where he became a church organist. In October 1705, Bach went to Lubeck to study with the distinguished Danish-born German organist a...

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... Brooklyn, New York on 26 September 1898, was born the second of four children of Morris and Rose Gershovitz, Russians who immigrated to New York in 1891. George and his family lived on Manhattan's lower east side in a poor ... ...

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed many operas, symphonies, and pieces of music that your guarunteed to know at least one by heart. Born Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, most people called him Mozart or Wolfgang. Mozart, baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was born in Salzburg, Austria, on January 27, 1756 to Leopold, Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, and Anna Maria Mozart. Leopold and ... ...

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... that music is the core of his life, and it was evident during this program. Conducting was the great Yakov Kreizberg whose music is expressed in bold strokes. This Russian born guest conductor started piano lessons at the age of five and has an international reputation. Verizon Hall bounced with rich acoustics and dramatic lighting. The almost sold-out performance drew ... a standing ovation. The guest performer was Munich-born violinist Julia Fischer. For this concert she took on the Khachaturian Violin Concerto, and she easily conquered its emotional peaks and valleys without reading ...

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... century musician, thought just like I did and took Beethoven as an idol for his music. In this essay I will try to show the similarities between these two musicians. Beethoven was born in Bonn, in 1770. He gave his first piano concert at the age of seven. He stayed in Bonn for long years. The first time he went to Vienna he ... loneliness. "By the time I come to the end of Beethoven's Fifth, I'm a new man." said Leonard Bernstein. He analyzed this symphony in his book called The Joy of Life. He was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1918. He presented a Beethoven/Bernstein Festival in 1...

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