Silent Disco

to compare myself to John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever, and it's not my groovy hairdo and careless attitude that builds this parallel, it's the fact that we’re both kings of the dance floor. Unlike John, I'm no connoisseur in the art of 70’s disco, instead, I’ve mastered the Latin dances of quinceañeras. For as long as I can remember I’ve been the black sheep of my Latino family, I lack street toughness, the ability to speak Spanish and worst of all, I have a white skin tone. For years I've

The 'Once Brothers' video we watched, took place after WWII during the split up of the six republics in Yugoslavia. This film showed the friendship between Vlade Divac and Drazen Petrovic. They played together on a Yugoslavian National team. They then split up because of the nationalism on their team and the war in Yugoslavia. They were so close but because of Vlade's actions, they grew apart and never spoke again. Vlade Divac grew up in Serbia, Yugoslavia. Loving basketball from an early age.

When one thinks of a genre they think of a book or a type of music. Genre can be thought of as a category of art. Fashion is a form of art, artists everyday are creating works that they feel people will wear and like. Fashion is a huge industry with thousands of designers that makes billions of dollars per year. Whether people realize it or not, every single person has a sense of style and has their own taste in clothing. With fashion there are different genres ranging from chic to bohemian to sporty

began to emerge, originating among urban African Americans and Latinos in New York City. The four main elements of hip hop culture were MCing (rapping), DJing, graffiti, and breakdancing. In the mid-1970s, the soul-funk blend of dance pop known as Disco took off in the mainstream pop charts in the United States and Europe, causing discotheques to experience a rebirth. Unlike many late 1960s, clubs, which featured live bands, discotheques used the DJs selection and mixing of records as the entertainment

They monitored his performance in a swimming pool in Cheltenham and the sea in Florida and were able to determine soundtracks which produced the best results, after trialing roughly 100 songs. The successful tracks saw Mr. Hooper’s speed, improve by 10 percent as well as fatigue and effort levels improve.” With Dr. Collins’ research proved to be successful, he said “it was songs which had lyrics containing an “emotional resonance” that produced the best results and this was more important than tempo

Other lighting aspects were crucial in providing context for a scene, such as the descent of the chandelier denoting Olivia’s home and the use of disco balls to indicate the production’s 70s era setting. The essence of this production, alongside the comedy, is its musicality, and Rice arranged the play into essentially a musical, backed by composer Ian Ross’ lovely soundtrack. The mishmash of classic

Hip hop is a culture style that started in the 1970’s. Majority of different funk groups began playing disco music at that time it was popular. During this time funk music was technology driven more electronic sounds was being used on the drum machines. Funk was the new dance in the early 70’s. This particular style of singing in which was being used is called rapping, this begun in African American, Urban Areas, Jamaican American, Latino American and many others cities of the United States. The

In my essay I am going to bring up three different topics. How jazz music makes West Side Story be evocative of the decade in which it was written, how gang related music would change West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet, and further how different Romeo and Juliet would be if they would of sang rather than spoke their soliloquy. Each of these topics has gang related actions and how music defines the gangs. In West Side Story both Acts 1 and 2 are mostly instrumental, allowing suspense to form in

Embedded Assessment 1: My Cultural Identity “My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and emotional distinction from others and I am proud of it.” I’m am african-american teenage girl that, according to the people around me, is considered smart because growing up I was a gifted student, spoiled and stuck up because my family consists of white people. The people that live around me, such as friends, probably share similar cultures with me simply because we live