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    a love or an interest for music. These day you are more than likely going to find a music video to accompany the song. Teenagers, especially love these music videos. The music video visual interprets the song. The visuals of a music video adds a lot of social context to the music itself. You see what the artist looks like, their age, race, class, how they dress, act, dance, and what kind of physical setting they are in. They are emotional and symbolic. In both the music video and the lyrics of Taylor

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    Critical Analysis of ‘I’ve got your man’ by Lady Saw Dancehall is a genre of music that developed in the late 1970s in Jamaica with certain influences from Reggae music. It gained popularity in Jamaica in the 1980s and 1990s and has continued to be dominant in Caribbean societies. Although Dancehall was a male dominated genre at that period, Marion ‘Lady Saw’ Hall is one of the most influential artistes and is very diverse in terms of her style of dancehall and lyrical content. She collaborated with

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    Jinheng Zhang Tanya Tercero English 107 November 22, 2014 Essay 3 Second Draft A Review of “Searching for Sugar Man” The film “Searching for Sugar Man” focuses on a legend folk music star, Sixto Rudriguez, who is more popular than Elvis in South Africa but fails to gain fame in the United States. He knows nothing about his fame in South Africa and has no idea how he is deified there. The whole story is told in a linear way to present a dramatic journey of finding Rudriguez. It is not followed an

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    Language and Composition III February 15, 2017 Improvisational Music In Invisible Man “My only sin is in my skin, What did I do to be so black and blue?” The protagonist, the invisible man, is stoned from marijuana as he listened to Armstrong 's rendition of "What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue" and determined that invisibility "gives one a slightly different sense of time, you 're never quite on the beat. (Prologue.)” The invisible man respected Armstrong for making something beautiful out of invisibility

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    Violin Music and art, the feelings that go through a person while the music of Mozart and Beethoven are playing, are indescribable. Listening to music can take a person away to a different era. Music like Mozart or Beethoven can really take a person's imagination soaring in a whole new perspective. Composers throughout the novel, Violin were Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky. Violin was a truly fabulous name for this story. It contains many fantastic elements as well as realistic elements;

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    course there are two genders, a man and a woman. However, these genders seemed to get abused by media on how these genders should be defined. A man should be aggressive, tough, and strong, while a woman she be passive, soft, and sensitive. The part of media that abused these stereotypes the most were music videos. From Rock N’ Roll to Hip-Hop to Country, most of the artist within these genres abused the gender identity of a woman and a man. In the culture of Hip-Hop music videos, the men are rich and

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    similarities and differences but both talk about how music affected them in their life. Sonny’s blues being in the perspective of a black man and How it feels to be Colored Me being in the perspective of a black woman in a time of segregation. Music plays a major role in both stories, in Sonny’s blues music is used as a form of expression and in How it feels to be Colored Me music is a realization of how it feels to her to be colored. In Sonny’s blues, music is used as a form of expression for the people

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    The impact that music has on individuals lives varies greatly from person to person and often provides a unique lifestyle to each individual. An author by the name Oliver Sacks talks about the unique cases that he has dealt with in the past in his writings. The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and “Brainworms, Sticky Music, and Catchy Tunes” from Musicophilia are two articles written by Oliver Sacks, which show the relationship that music has on the mind and how music can change how a person perceives

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    An old, unhappy man is buying flowers for his anniversary. He notices a spunky, younger man, who he assumes is doing the same thing. Later he stumbles upon the younger man visiting a grave with the flowers and balloon he had just bought. The old man realizes that what he bought for his wife was not enough, and goes back to the store. The theme of this short film is that you can never take anyone or anything for granted because you never know when you may lose them. I will be taking a look closer

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    Harlem during the 1920s, African Americans are in finest clothing that they can buy going to their new jobs, people are chatting loudly as they walk down the stone streets; Harlem clubs were vivid during the night, as people danced to swing music and Jazz music. It was during this time where the african americans were free to work, to create, and to learn without any backlash. They were no longer considered slaves; but rather brothers and sisters of america who now held the power to change society

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