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Papers On Music
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Blues
Music vs. Country Music
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A 6 page paper analytically comparing these two styles of
music. The writer details various similarities and
differences in lyric and content, and includes two
original songs as examples in an appendix.
Filename: Bluescou.wps
Blues
Traveler / Music And Society
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A 6 page paper discussing music's role in society, today,
yesterday, in America and elsewhere. The main band in
focus is Blues Traveler, a relatively new band, in
comparison to some, that has a tremendous following,
heralded by some as the next Grateful Dead. While they
appear to be fairly simple individuals they are involved
in issues which illustrate how music collides with society
in many ways. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Bluestra.wps
Bob
Dylan -- the Social and Musical Evolution of Folk Music to
“Folk-Rock”
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This 8 page report discusses singer and songwriter Bob
Dylan and is role as one of the major figures in American
folk and rock music. It is important to understand that
Dylan came to prominence in the midst of truly significant
social, political, and ideological change in the United
States. One critic wrote in 1998 that: “Bob Dylan
couldn't wait for the music to change. He couldn't be only
part of the change. He was the change itself. Unlike other
songwriters who voiced their politics through their music,
Dylan garnered widespread popularity as his words seemed
to echo the sentiments of teens of thousands of thousands
of the young “rebels” of the 1960s. He was thought of
as both a musical and political visionary and apparently
viewed himself in equally epic proportions. Bibliography
lists 8 sources.
Filename: BWbdylan.wps
BP
Fallon's Interview with U2: "One But Not The
Same"
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5 pages in length. Sometimes the simplest questions are
the most telling, as BP Fallon found out in his interview
with the musical group U2. His article entitled "One
But Not The Same" delves deep into the psyche of
Bono, Edge, Larry and Adam, the four primary players who
have made U2 a musical icon. That Fallon steps away from
traditional interview queries opens an entirely new aspect
of information retrieval, inasmuch as celebrity
personalities are often difficult to crack. This approach,
however, remains simplistic in its structure yet reaches
far within each man's personal realm. Bibliography lists 3
sources.
Filename: TLC_U2.wps
Bruce
Springsteen
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This 6 page paper provides an overview of the life and
times of this rock and roll legend. The connection with
his New Jersey home town is emphasized. Bibliography lists
6 sources.
Filename: SA15Brce.wps
Charles
Mingus’ Autobiography -- “Beneath the Underdog
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His World As Composed by Mingus: This 5 page report
discusses the autobiography of jazz musician Charles
Mingus. Mingus takes many unexpected turns and strange
detours in telling his life story, just as he did in
“telling” his musical interpretations. His telling
bends and molds facts to his own purposes as if they too
were musical notes. The book makes the reader feel like a
voyeur peering into a great mind that had the capacity to
blend impulsiveness, fantasy, fact, and craziness into one
package in almost equal amounts. The end result blurs the
lines of what is real or not but the book makes it clear
that for Mingus, at the moment of his telling it, it was
real enough. No secondary sources.
Filename: BWmingus.wps
Charlie
Parker’s “Lady Be Good” Compared with Miles Davis’
“Boplicity”
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This 5 page report discusses Charlie “Yardbird” Parker
and Miles Davis who were (and still are), inarguably, two
of the greatest performers, composers, and innovators that
the American jazz world has ever experienced. Charlie
Parker and his alto saxophone are considered hallmarks of
the original bebop, even though the music he played
repeatedly demonstrated that this was a musician following
his instincts and not necessarily attempting to create or
define any particular “style.” Likewise, Miles Davis
created a musical realm like nothing ever before heard and
like Bird, Miles unashamedly and unhesitatingly did it his
way. Miles Davis played an important part in the early
stages of the progressive, or “cool” jazz that
dominated the jazz scene in the early 1950s. This report
compares two of their works. No bibliography.
Filename: BWmilesd.wps
Chinese
Music: Bianzhong Bells
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A 5 page research paper that focuses on the discovery of
the Bianzhong bells, a set of 64 bells that are 2,400
years old, that were unearthed during the excavation of
the tomb of the Marquis Yi of Zeng in the 1970s. The
writer also includes an overview of the topic of ancient
Chinese music. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khbianz.wps
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