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    The Beatles After the Beatles (Fall B 2013) You are signed in as: Pan Chen Top of Form Sign Out Bottom of Form Home Classroom Exams/Assignments Grades Help Exam #2 Time Limit 50 minutes Starting Time 10:18 pm Arizona time Top of Form 1 In April of 1979, a U.S. court finds the Beatle 's former manager _________ guilty of tax evasion and he is sentenced to serve two months of a two-year sentence in prison.  Brian Epstein  Mal Evans  Allen Klein  George Martin  Pete Best 2 ____________ is the

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    12th April, 2016 St. Paul’s ChurchPetaling Jaya was privileged to host the classical music ensemble known as “La Folía”, who gave a concert of Baroque recorder music. “La Folía” comprises Pedro Bonet and Belén González Castaño, and was founded in Madrid, Spain in 1977. Pedro Bonet is Professor of Recorder at the Royal Superior Conservatory of Music in Madrid, where he also teaches Improvisation in Early Music and Baroque Ensemble. Belén González Castaño is a professional pianist who has performed

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    "I love the development of our music, that's what I really dig about the whole thing. How we've tried to develop, y'know? It grows. That's why every day people come forward with new songs. Music goes on forever." --Bob Marley, August 1979 We remember the brilliant and evocative music Bob Marley gave the world; music that stretches back over nearly two decades and still remains timeless and universal. Marley has been called "the first Third World superstar," "Rasta Prophet," "visionary," and"

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    Some people say good music does not have an expiration date. Weird Al’s music is a great thing that a lot of his audiences love and are inspired by. When people frequently listen to a song, they favor the artist. Weird Al Yankovic was born in October, 1959 in California, and still lives there. Weird Al Yankovic created song parodies while finding humor to innovate ways to accomplish creating a world of laughter. The parodies were hilarious and stayed on one topic, and that is what made his songs

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    started in 1979 as one of the first channels for African Americans. The goal was to reach the African American community in America with programming that was relevant to African American people. There has been controversy about whether or not it has played out well. BET has definitely affected media images of African Americans, but the question is, has it had a positive or negative effect? I believe that the networks content reinforces negative stereotypes of blacks in the U.S. Being that music videos

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    When we think of rock music, we typically think of musicians like Led Zeppelin, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, and similar artists. There’s no problem with that. They all influenced this genre alot and inspired many other artists, but sadly, we never think of the many women that shaped this music scene. Women like Janis Joplin, Joan Jett, Karen Carpenter, and many others. So, who were these musicians and how did they influence the genre? To start, Janis Joplin was one of the biggest rock stars of her time

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    dominating religion with around 99.4% of the population being Muslim. An Islamic Republic was formed in 1979 after the ruling monarchy was overthrown. A theocratic system was then created by the conservative clerical forces which dictates that the laws of the land as being secular and based on Islamic law. Authority in Iran determined that the concept of music

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    Ethnic Music Presentation: Mariachi For my Ethnic Music Presentation I chose Mariachi music to research. Regionally speaking, because I am from Texas which borders Mexico, my culture has been greatly influenced by Mexican Traditions. The ethnic group linked to Mariachi is Mexicans both indigenous and mestizo and eventually Mexican Americans as the diffusion of Mariachi crosses over into the United States. Mariachi music started out in Western Mexico around the 19th century. From the 19th to 20th

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    first to enter Billboard Top 200 for a female artist selling 350,000 copies in the United States in one week and 950,000 worldwide. In 1995, she produced a song with her brother Michael titled “Scream” the music video along cost $7 million dollars the most expensive video every made in the music industry. Also in the same year A&M records released her first greatest hit album ‘Design of A Decade 1864/1996’ it included all of her hits from the album ‘Control’ and “rhythm Nation 1814’ and two new recordings

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    The music industry has many different genres, to suit a multitude of listeners; but, the most popular is rock. Rock has numerous genres within itself, including; heavy metal, hard rock, arena rock, and many more. The most popular genre would be either heavy metal or hard rock. They are both very similar in “taste” with the only differences being what the music is about and the pitch of the music. Heavy metal is typically about the “darker” things in life and it will have an overall deeper pitch to

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