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    Movement Behind The Music” There’s a long list of musicians that have utilized their musical genius to impose a change upon the masses of society. Many to this day are only recognizable through their music but not by the changes that they contributed to society. Some musicians stand out when compared to others because of their political views ,but when spirituality is used to infuse the souls of many who share a common life experience through the means of music this is an iconic event

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    Music festivals were created as a way for people to temporarily escape from the world's conflict. Throughout the decades, festivals continued to grow in popularity and new festivals were created. The festival that started the the spread of festivals was Woodstock. In 1969 in New York, the first Woodstock was held on a dairy farm. 32 different rock acts came together on the farm to perform. During this time period, the Vietnam war was happening and Thousands of “hippies” traveled to Bethel, New York

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    the grammy awards. He walks on stage and is awarded for his hard work. Clive Davis is a businessman for Columbia Records and has been making improvements to music and musicians from many of his accomplishments. Before his Career Clive Davis had many ideas of what he wanted to be before his career. Interest in music He became interested in music from the broadway musicals he used to see when he was a kid. His Work Before he joined with Columbia Records, Davis went to college at N.Y.U and worked as

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    vast population of listening to rap music, teenagers to be specific hold the most capacity of it having an effect on their character, development, and behavior on themselves. The repercussions of studies conducted with teenagers are far mixed, but inclusively, they advocate that listening to rap music does not cause aggressive or unorthodox behavior (Copley). In 1997 Wester conducted an experiment with young men who had very little previous exposure to rap music. One group had the lyrics while listening

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    alarming and disturbing tragedy befalling on April 20, 1999 at America’s Columbine High School is an act reflecting the extraordinarily high rate of gun related violence of American society.

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    The history of music would not be complete without the musical “fine art” that was created for the dominant minorities in Western Europe. Bergeron (1992) admits that it is quite a task to educate a two-term survey of Western Art music since students have no extra time for getting accustomed to the great musical masterpieces and their composers. It acquires the knowledge to distinguish which set of values will assist in selecting the pieces from the canon that are worth being carried from one generation

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    Essay on U.S. Influence on Latin Culture

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    towards the "modernization" of Latin America, influences aimed at empowering communities and bringing about democratic movements among Latin American countries have been accompanied by various forms of exploitation and cultural decimation (Leonard, 1999). Efforts at modernization of Latin America have been carried out partly in opposition to the influence IberoCatholic culture (of Spain) which is reported to "deprive the Latin Americans of the essential tools for progress: a future vision, a work

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    Impact Of Napster

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    iTunes library, and she wondered how people could afford to buy dozens of albums just for a handful of favorite singles. Buying music over the internet may seem commonplace today, but in the 1990’s, audio on the internet was merely experimental. In 2000, computer programmer Shawn Fanning introduced an internet site called Napster that irrevocably changed the internet, the music industry, and the complex relationship between the two. Many internet users

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    Essay about Coyote And Don Maclean

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    answer: Woodstock. The three day rock festival that defined an era was only one of many music festivals of the '60s. But Woodstock has come to symbolize, "an era of peaceful, free- loving, drug- taking hippie youth, carefree before harsher realities hit..." (Layman 40). The Woodstock festival ended a century filled with many metamorphoses of rock'n'roll, from the era of pop music to the rebirth of folk music to the invention of acid rock. But some cynics say that rock'n'roll died with the death

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    Napster: The Debate Over Copyright Infringement In early 1999, Shawn Fanning, a Northeastern University freshman, created Napster software. That summer he made it available for free through his Napster.com website. Napster is a peer-to-peer technology, which makes it possible for users to freely share their music files through the internet with other users all over the world. Specifically, this is how Napster works: 1.)     A user sends a request for a song. 2.)     Napster

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