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    What Music Means to Me

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    Music is defined differently for each individual. It is the universal language that speaks to us all, but in different ways. It is one of the few genres that can instantly transport a person back to the past. Music is also an art of sound which expresses ideas, thoughts, and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, and harmony. It is the design of giving structural form and rhythmic pattern to combinations of sounds produce instrumentally and vocally. To me, music brings

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    Puerto Ricans are an important piece in hip hop culture and in its evolution since 1970. The contribution of Puerto Ricans to hip hop have been ignored many times and when they are being noticed “it has been misinterpreted as a defection from Puerto Rican culture and identity into the African American camp.” For example, making a version of a song and adding it Spanish or Spanglish words. Puerto Ricans stories are marginalized because similarities between Puerto Ricans and Africa American are not

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    “What’s Your Fantasy” ii. Album: Incognegro iii. Artist: Ludacris iv. Year of Release: 2000 Define the rap style and make a case for how the song fits the rap style by discussing the characteristics seen and heard in the music with supportive examples from the video. (Check with sites such as Google or Wikipedia to fill in the above information on the audio release.) This song style is rap as the song sexual innuendo is clearly defined on the video as well as lyrically, however it became a very

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    Music In The 1960's

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    Music: It surrounds the world, it’s life’s soundtrack. Music is everywhere: in the elevator, playing softly over a store’s speaker, at parties, studying, on a ride in the car, a jingle from a commercial; everyone has a genre, band, song, or artist that helps them pass time. For over 50,000 years, music has been around, lingering in the minds of people. Used in some of the toughest times in history, listening closely to past music can inform a general idea of the events and problems of the time frame

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    Jazz Fiction is a type of literature that uses jazz music as a language between characters, to illuminate feelings through the use of musical descriptors, and to give the story a jazz-like rhythm. James Baldwin successfully does each of those things in Sonny’s Blues. One example of how Baldwin uses musical

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    Pittsburgh Music History

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    acclaimed musicians and music organizations that have created music that has been enjoyed across America. Pittsburgh is a city of music with a history in Jazz, Classical, Pop, Doo-Wop, Rock, and most currently Rap. Many of Pittsburgh’s old musicians are award winning performers and song writers who have sold millions of records. Their music can now be heard on movies, TV, and even Broadway shows. These famous artists would be nothing without their teachers, producers, music promoters, managers, and

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    exploitation or victimization of women. Misogyny in hip hop music instills and perpetuates negative stereotypes about women. It can range from innuendos to stereotypical characterizations and defamations. Overt misogyny in rap and hip hop music emerged in the late 1980’s, and has since then been a feature of the music of numerous hip hop artists. Hip hop has had a considerable influence on modern popular culture, saturating mass media through music, radio broadcasts and a variety of other

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    What affects does music have on you? Music has many affects on you many positive and many negative. Some music helps to be motivated and some make us feel upset or rowdy. It depends on the music,like, rock music makes you extremely violent. Rap music gets you hype, and so on. In medical research studies, scientist have found that lively tempo music was extremely good for your heart. Calm instrumental music has also been found to alter your brainwaves helping in situations like headaches or other

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    artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style or subject matter ( the music genre list 2017 ). Today’s music comes in all styles and forms, this makes it difficult to categorize those new and emerging genres. Hip Hop and Grime both have a culture and are both a rap style genre, that share many of the same music and stylistic characteristics

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    African American music has influenced every genre in the music industry today. From Jazz music all the way to Rap, it has cultivated different cultures throughout the world in a very unique way. African Americans have produced music, beginning with the transition through the transatlantic slave trade, to slavery in the “New World”, the Civil Rights era, and to the modern society of today, that enabled so many genres to actually even exist. Even though each time period focused on a specific issue

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