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room. So while his wife, the narrator, is being locked he gets to go home and sleep in his nice bed, The husband, John, belittles her and doesn 't really investigate much into her sickness. As she gets more depressed and anxious she ends up ripping the wallpaper and she somehow managed to get a writing utensil and writes about her ideas and thoughts. But she can 't be caught because john does not accept that. Her imagination takes a huge role over her because she starts to think and see people stuck

Benjamin David Goodman was born in Chicago on May 30, 1909, the ninth of twelve children born to David and Dora Goodman, who both emigrated from Russia but met in America. David Goodman eked out a minimal living for his family by working for a tailor in a sweatshop. To help alleviate the family’s poverty, the children were urged to work as soon as they were old enough. For entertainment, David would take his youngest children to Douglas Park on Sundays to hear free band concerts. It was here

Benny Goodman was born on May 30, 1909, in Chicago Illinois. He was known as “The King of Swing” to many people during his lifetime. Benny Goodman had to start somewhere though. Benny grew up in a poor Jewish family during his childhood. Benny was ten years old and he was already good at the clarinet. Benny Goodman got his education from the Hull house and started his career. By the age of thirteen, people thought he was good enough that they paid him money to perform jazz music. Later on,

Britany Reed Dr. Keast Music April 15, 2015 Benny Goodman Benny Goodman the “King of Swing”. A man who owned the American Jazz and an amazing swing musician, clarinetist, and bandleader. This naming him as the infamous “King of Swing”. Goodman led the most popular musical groups known in America. Goodman was recognized as putting the most important jazz concert in history out to the public in 1938. Singlehandedly being the most recognized clarinet player for this era and doing it flawlessly

put together by a guy named Benny, and I understood why. Benny Goodman, born Benjamin David in 1909, one of twelve children, grew up in a Chicago ghetto with his family, who fled Russian anti-Semitism. Encouraged by his father, an immigrant tailor, to learn a musical instrument, Goodman took up the clarinet at a young

some might even say this era was a new beginning, especially to the minorities (Schuller 5). Swing music is a branched of Jazz music that became popular after the World War II; however, there isn’t a definite definition for swing music itself. Benny Goodman, an American jazz clarinetist and known as the “King of Swing”,” quoted swing as “something difficult to explain like the Mona’s Lisa smile… It remains something you take 5,000 words

The film O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a reinterpretation of the epic poem The Odyssey. The Coen brothers, writers and directors of the film, did not over analyze their representation. “It just sort of occurred to us after we’d gotten into it somewhat that it was a story about someone going home, and sort of episodic in nature, and it kind of evolved into that,” says Joel Coen in Blood Siblings, “It’s very loosely and very sort of unseriously based on The Odyssey” (Woods 32). O Brother, Where

ELECTRO SWING AND ITS PLACE IN MUSIC HISTORY Pedro Osuna Ardoy Although many people would argue that electro swing is to be heard as EDM and not as jazz, electro swing can actually help us rethink the lines we draw between jazz and dance music because it shares the function of early jazz more than jazz as art music. What is electro swing anyway? A lot of people ask themselves this question, and nobody seems to have a closed answer. The website ‘electro-swing.com’ tries, but ultimately concludes

Billie Holiday The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement specifically in creative arts such as music and literature. Jazz represented the flavor and zest of African American culture in the 1920s-1940s. Billie Holiday had a great impact on the Harlem Renaissance because she was one of the most influential jazz singers of all time. She performed with other great jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Teddy Wilson, Jo Jones, and Henry Allen. Her career as a jazz singer was

and shadow. In the story Young Goodman Brown was once a great man. Now he sees everyone as a sinful and bitter person, how did this come to be? It all began one night when Young Goodman Brown had a dream that changed his life forever. In his dream he saw his wife and the good people of his town attend a Witches’ Sabbath. This changes Young Goodman Brown`s perception of reality and how he perceives everyone around him to be devil worshippers. The changes Young Goodman Brown goes through mentally, affect