Essays Tagged: "Folk music"

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citater fra autoriteter (eksperter), statistikker og til dels indicier angående tendenser i befolkningen.Nogle af de sandheder der bruges i artiklen er f.eks. at får man et monopol inden f ... e bedste former for argumentation ser man når man ved at inddrage en ekspert. Man ser ofte at folk har større tiltro til en når man kan argumentere for det pågældende om ...

(4 pages) 39 0 3.5 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies

A description of the Folk Urban Continuum as depicted by Redfield and Chan Kom: A Maya Village.

Chan Kom: A Maya Village:The Folk-Urban ContinuumThe "folk-urban continuum" model elaborated by Robert Redfield continues to reap ... s within large cities.Redfield's speculations about what he saw as the significant changes from the folk to the urban end of the continuum are based on studies conducted in the Yucatan during the earl ... uring the early 1930s. It's essential elements focus on the fact that as a community moves from the folk to the urban end of the continuum, there occur shifts from cultural intimacy and organization t ...

(2 pages) 42 0 4.3 Feb/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

African American Music.

the African American community had heard gospel music (2). At this time, gospel music was a sacred folk music with origins in field hollers, work songs, slave songs, Baptist lining hymns, and Negro s ... . Growing up in segregated, racist times, Mahalia lived in what she called a ?shotgun shack?. White folks owned the bars and grocery stores of the neighborhood. Blacks were left with the left over job ...

(25 pages) 231 2 4.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

History of Rhythm and Blues

the urbanization of the blues. It is a form of popular music based on a mixture of blues and black folk music. Its melody is simple, but has strong repetitious rhythms. It has been influenced by jazz ...

(2 pages) 70 0 4.8 Oct/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Music in Our Life

-cert. Different people like different kinds of music. You may prefer pop or rock music, country or folk music, classical music or jazz, but you certainly cannot think of a day without music.As for ...

(1 pages) 29 0 4.8 Feb/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Music

ements, life, interests and aspirations people. Each nations differs by peculiar national features. Folk music, being improved by creative efforts of many generations of the people, reaches a high deg ...

(1 pages) 16 0 3.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Folk Music Assignment

the song performed: (Q3)Improvisations: (Q6)Classification according to song type: Chinese peasant folk songEnsemble-based of solo: SoloIs this typical of most folk songs from that country: Yes, this ... solo: SoloIs this typical of most folk songs from that country: Yes, this song is similar to other folk songs due to the pentatonic scales and free-rolling melody. The subject of girls held by societ ...

(4 pages) 1812 0 0.0 Jun/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Review of "A World Of Music" Featuring A Cappella Choir Dr. Tom Wine, director

. Nathan Webb played percussion for this song.Our second song was, “Janger” an Indonesian folksong –arr. Budi Susanto Yohanes. Janger (Balinese for ‘humming’) is a type of Bal ... 5;humming’) is a type of Balinese traditional dance introduced to the island around 1925. This folksong is traditionally sung by Balinese youths while they dance the Janger together during evenin ...

(4 pages) 21 1 3.0 Jun/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

EMA in Hainan and the Northwest

sexual customs. These activities are referred to as Erotic Musical Activity or EMA.EMA is a type of folk activity whose overall form is vocal and or an instrumental performance, whose ultimate goal is ... s have yet altered them. Further analysis of these cases are explained later on.Ediang is a type of folk love song sung by Danxian County's young adults (namely Han people). It is among the top folk s ...

(4 pages) 0 0 0.0 Oct/2012

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues