Jazzmarie Assignment

If you didn’t know the book I was reading was Being Jazz. Jazz is a transgender, but her book is telling us the audience her difficulties of becoming a transgender. When she was born Jazz had two brothers and one sister. Although, before she was born, her mother and her friends did this traditional thing to tell if the mother was going have a boy or girl. So how this works is well you have a necklace and you move it around the tummy of the baby. If it’s going back and forth then it’s going be a boy, but if it goes around circles it's gonna be girl. However, when the last baby shower happened the necklace was going in circles which met the baby was going be a girl. When the mother gave birth the baby was a……. BOY! Even though the necklace went

On March 30th, 2017 I attended a well-performed jazz concert at Prince George’s Community College. The concert was performed by a group called The Reginald Cyntje Group. The Reginald Cyntje Group was made up of Brian Settles, Herman Burney, Lenny Robinson, Hope Udobi, and Reginald Cyntje. The group performed seven songs including: “The Rise of the Protester,” “Ballad for the Masses,” “Chant of the Revolt,” “Descension and Ascension,” “No Justice No Peace,” “The Piece of Resistance,” and “Blues People vs the Deplorables.” While I enjoyed all of the songs my favorite was the “Dance of the Crooked Heads,” which will be the topic of my report.

The era of the Roaring Twenties, was a time of great societal change. Many of these changes were greatly influenced by jazz music. During this time, the country was coming out of World War I and the attitude of most people was dark and dismal. Dance and music clubs became tremendously popular in an effort to improve the quality of life for many people.

On Tuesday, April 12th 2016 I went to Chris Jazz Café to see a live Jazz performance from three young artists; Dave D’Arville the Temple Jazz Guitarist, Alex Cross the Pianist, Mat Campbell was on the Bass and Phil Arrington was on the Drums. The show started at 7 pm and ended at 10 however, at 8:30 there was an intermission. Chris Jazz café was on a little block called Sansom Street, at first it was hard to find because the hotel parking sign covered the Jazz sign. When you first walk in, the hosts greet you and ask if you want to sit near the stage or in the back a one of the high-top tables. The atmosphere of the place was really nice, it was good vibes and so relaxed; the café felt safe to be alone that evening.

New Orleans jazz is attractive to the military culture in the shared aspect that “New Orleans jazz developed as a synthesis of social and cultural factors that merged at a particular time and place in history” (Metzger and Ernest 406). Moreover, “the usual New Orleans musicians’ response to disaster … has long been an inclination to use music to mitigate the harsh realities endemic to a city that finds itself perennially in harm’s way” (Raeburn 812) in which, post-WWI, WWII, Cold War, Vietnam War, Desert Storm, and most recently post-9/11, directly relates to military sentimentality. Further justifying the connection of the need to mitigate harsh realities with music, a sentiment shared between both New Orleans natives and U. S. Military communities, “the Naval School of Music add[ed] classes to perform in real-world settings that include performances in war-torn and developing countries” (Jones 52). This resulted in its recent curriculum “innovation [of] a New Orleans style brass band to provide the ability to send small, mobile acoustic groups to entertain audiences in difficult performance conditions” (Jones 52). The Naval School of Music takes direction from the employed fleet musicians and their supervisors’ feedback, rather than faculty, to quickly adapt a curriculum to the changing naval landscape (Jones 47-52).

The Jazz Age was more than merely a musical revolution—“The Jazz Age denotes not only a period of early big band, but also the events and fashions of an era”. During this decade a number of modern developments were invented, which included an expanded telephone service, network radio, electric inventions, and records set in aviation. These modern developments had a profound effect on American culture, creating a rise in leisure, specifically mass leisure. Automobiles, movies, and the radio overtook the lives of Americans, becoming necessities and part of everyday routines. This period also marks the beginning of films with soundtracks, an audio component, marking the rise of the musical and giving the American people

Meet Jazz Jennings, she is notable for being one of the youngest publicly documented people to be identified as transgender, and for being the youngest person to become a national transgender figure. She has saved lives for what she has stood up for. Also, according to an interview, many young teens have sent her emails saying because of her they are alive.

Jazz is defined as, a “type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century”. Jazz deals with a great deal of instruments, that rage from the piano, brass and wood wind instruments. Just as the instruments play a large portion is what actually defines jazz as “Jazz”, so does the vocals of an amazing performer. The miraculous show had its opening acts, as young lady sang the lyrics of an Adele song with her own twist of a jazz feel. Upon her completion, the next performer was presented an Augusta native, Mrs. Nikki Harris.

I have previously seen commercials for the show “I am Jazz” and heard what it was about but never have I seen an episode before this class. The show seems to display the life of a youth who is biologically a male, but perceives their self as a girl. In the episode, she is creeping towards a crucial age where she is approaching puberty and important decisions need to be made whether to halt the process or not. The episode, also, showed simple difficulties in her everyday life like how she can not play in her travel club soccer games, how people at school do not understand the process she is doing for herself when she was born a boy, and how not everyone supports their families actions because it is not seen as the societal norm.

Learning Style: Emily is a logical and visual learner, she does best with learning facts and seeing pictures and videos of the assignments

I noticed that Jennalee is a true listener, paying apt attention to whoever was talking to her, allowing me to recognize that she is strong in interpersonal skills and intelligences. Her ability to interact with and respond appropriately to both adults and other children was exhibited when she worked well with the other children on the reader’s

     Born in New York City, Artie Shaw would become one of the top bandleaders in the swing era. He began his musical career as a highly sought-after alto saxophone player in the New York area, and was able to benefit from the growth of radio and studio recordings. As he perfected his technical ability with various dance bands, he was still relatively unknown in the early 30’s when he began to focus exclusively on the Clarinet while Swing music began to grow in popularity.

Mrs. Lawrence frequently utilizes rhymes and actions, such as rhythm hand clapping to gain her student’s attention. She also uses songs to give students enough time to get their things together during lesson transitions or station transitions located throughout her classroom. The sayings and hand actions very catchy, and her signing was a great way to get students to take responsibility for themselves and to do as instructed.

"If the child is a struggling reader or writer the conclusion must be that we have not yet discovered the way to help him learn” (Clay, 2005, Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals Part 2, p. 158). Literacy has grown to become a worldwide problem and most people are unaware that it exist. A lady, from New Zealand, by the name of Marie Mildred Clay was known for her research contribution in the field of education literacy. Clay was a clinical child psychologist and education specialist. Her work has helped thousands of children through her research and teaching strategies. She was an advocate for early intervention among young children. Her commitment to provide services to help children improve their

The Jazz music of the Big Band Era was the peak of over thirty years of musical development. Jazz was so innovative and different that it could literally sweep the world, changing the musical styles of nearly every country. Big band Jazz that makes the feet tap and the heart race with excitement that it is recognized with nearly every type of music.