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    Appalachian music is music that has influenced many mainstream type that are around today. This music is not easily explained by playing a song and being able to identify the music. After reading about Appalachian music I have come to think of it as a Copper pot of music. This is in a similar way to the United States as the Copper pot of ethic people from around the world. To be able to understand this it is best to start from the known beginning roots and to understand who sings this music, why, and

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    Music has always been an outlet for creative expression and social commentary. Twentieth century music, just like music from all other time periods, reflects the changing social atmosphere of the era. During this time period, musicians began experimenting with different kinds of music to create completely new sounds. This led to the beginning of rock and roll, which quickly became a cultural phenomenon that brought different groups of people together. Overall, rock and roll, and the cultural movement

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    Throughout the millennium, music has touched the lives of many people around the world. Music is the one force of nature that can touch one’s heart with the perfect rhythm. With its many genres, people can enjoy each genre of music given the time and place in specific ways. Rock ‘n’ roll, for example, has influenced many Americans from the mid-1950’s and became inspirational today. While listening to rock ‘n’ roll music, everyone can’t help but name one key musician, and his name is Elvis Presley

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    with the title “Live Music Capital of the World.” This title gave rise to an economic and social boost to Austin, but by doing so, it diluted the native culture into a hipster culture. In 1991, Austin was awarded the title “Live Music Capital of the World” due to the fact it has the largest number of music venues for population. According to Baker’s article, Austin has 1 music venue for 4,125 people while the mainstream cities like New York City and Los Angeles has only 1 music venue per 29,600 people

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    Music is a major part of american culture and influences pretty much everything people do today. Music has been around for centuries and the world would not be the same without it. Music has inspired the American culture in various ways. It inspired us to dance, it inspired us to learn and overall music inspires us to live. Music has always been about expressing feelings in a non violent but passionate way, the genres that do this best are the Blues, Rap, Rock, and Jazz. These genres expressed tons

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    Without the musical past we wouldn't have had a proper introduction to what next will come. One person that had a substantial and lasting impact on the music world is W.C Handy also known as “The Father Of Blues”. Without him African American owned record labels wouldn't have prospered at the rate it did to this day. W.C Handy was born November

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    Chapter 8 of the textbook Women, Music, Culture discusses popular American music in the late 1800s to mid 1900s. This chapter has many examples of all girl bands and share information about their member composition to performance venues to discrimination the women faced. Also, it is important to note that all-girl groups did not form in the twentieth century; I am confident all girl bands were present long before anything was recorded about them. However, the all-girl band references in this paper

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    Music comes in a lot of different genres (forms) such as “popular music” (pop), rhythm and blues (R&B), classical music, jazz, country, blues, rock and roll to the most recent music rap music. All these forms have their starting points and I aim to familiarize you with some of these genres and their roots. Their history to present time. After studying these different genres, I’ve come to realizes they all have some similarities and some quite obvious differences. Also how they started from each other

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    piece of music has to have a certain aural characteristic”. She contradicts formal and technical rules because she

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    The influence of music and dance in the 1920’s led to many advancements in personal expression, culture, and personal relationships, as well as motivating people to succeed. Evolution of music and dance in the 1920’s inspired and brought creativity into many societies all over the world. Started in New Orleans and was thought of as “bottom culture”, music gave hope and courage to many. African American culture was beginning to gain respect with the creation of new sounds that had intrigued

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