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Music Television, a basic cable service known by its acronym MTV, remains the dominant music video outlet utilizing effective marketing and competitive business practices throughout its nineteen year history. The creation of the I Want My MTV marketing campaign and use of the campaign throughout the 1980’s helped the cable outlet secure a substantial subscriber…

Censoring Music from Our Children ?I will kill you, you don’t want to f*** with me, b**** I will kill you? (Eminem). Is this the type of music we want our children listening to? Unfortunately, these lyrics by popular music star Eminem are exactly what children today are being subjected to. Musicians write music and…

The Rise of JazzThroughout this paper I will take you through some of the different styles and eras of jazz. Such styles as be-bop, cool jazz, dixeland, swing, and fusion emerged define jazz music. Along with these different styles there were important eras that molded jazz music, such eras as the golden ages, and the…

Marshall Mathers, better known as Eminem, has had many achievements in his life, but life wasn’t always good. Growing up in a poor trailer park in Warren Mich. He failed out of ninth grade, which led to him dropping out of high school. He tried to go back but couldn’t do it, he just wanted…

Miles, The AutobiographyThis book, written by Miles Davis, is the autobiography tht he wrote a few years before he died. In this book I found how he first became interested in jazz. It also explains how he became one of the best jazz players of all time. Miles was born in Alton, Illinois in 1926…

What is Jazz? According to the dictionary, jazz is defined as, “A kind ofsyncopated, highly rhythmic music originated by Southern blacks in the late 19thcentury” (“Jazz” 232). But, everyone should at least agree that jazz isthe mother of all music, and is referred to as the only art form originating inthe United States (“History 101”…

THE EVOLUTION OF RAP MUSICRap is a form of urban music, which emerged from the ?hip-hop’ movement of the South Bronx, New York, in the early 1970’s. The hip-hop culture was comprised of the popular street activities of African-American youth during the 1970’s such as: styles of language, ?street-slang? colloquialisms, graffiti, break dancing, music and…

1756-91, Austrian composer whose oeuvre represents one of the great peaks of musical history. His works, written in every genre, combine beauty of sound with classical grace and technical perfection. He learned to play harpsichord, violin, and organ from his father, Leopold Mozart, 1719-87, a composer and violinist. A remarkable prodigy, the young Mozart was…

Poetry is language that is more intense than the ordinary language. The elementsof poetry make it recognizable that there are techniques and styles that add tothis intensity. These elements can be found in the lyrics of many rap songs,especially within the lyrics of “What’s It Gonna Be” by Busta Rhymes andJanet Jackson. Rhyme is the…

A detailed synopsis of the guidance of young children from Absorption toPurposeful Response. Early is the best time to start children with an enrichedmusical background. The earlier the child starts to hear and learn about music,the more enriched and fulfilling the child’s experience of music is going tobe. This is even more beneficial for talented…