Essays Tagged: "Jazz Singer"

This essay is about the life of Bessie Smith.

is uncertain and is variously given as April 15, 1894-6, 1898, and 1900. The first major blues and jazz singer on record and one of the most powerful of all time, Bessie Smith rightly earned the titl ...

(5 pages) 84 1 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

The essay "1920's Recreation", is about the main recreations such as jazz, movies, and sports, during the 1920's. It also includes big names such as Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin, and Louis Armstrong.

ntive. The roarin' twenties had many different recreations going on that it would change the world. Jazz, sports, and movies were only the beginning of recreation in the twenties. When you have stars ... ntil 1926 D.W. Griffith had introduced the close-up and the moving camera. In 1927, the movie, "The Jazz Singer" was the first major film with sound was produced. By then, Hollywood had become the fil ...

(2 pages) 58 0 2.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

"MASTER HAROLD... and the boys" page notes

igger"pg. 5:Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers(famous Hollwood dance team)pg. 6:Sarah Vaughn - American jazz singerwelfed = welfarepg. 7:hiding = beatingpg. 8:Count Basie = leader of one of the most famou ...

(1 pages) 31 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Assess the roles played by science and technology in the construction of c19th and/or c20th American urban space?

ording technology enabled the filming and broadcasting of the first movie ever made with sound, The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson. And finally in 1926, the advent of Technicolor enabled the creation ...

(7 pages) 32 0 3.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Al Johnson

Jolson?Al Jolson aka Al Wonder owns and operates a London nightclub. Also, Al Jolson is an amazing jazz singer.How was Al Jolson recognized after his death?Broadway turned off the lights for 10 mins ...

(1 pages) 1339 1 3.0 May/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Actors

Women in Jazz - History

Women in jazz � PAGE �9� Running Head: Role of Women In Jazz From 1920 - 1930Jazz Music ... of U.S during the 1920 to 1930Role played by Women[Name of writer][Name of the institution]�Jazz Music of U.S during the 1920 to 1930Role played by WomenIntroduction:Jazz is considered as Amer ... cultural achievement. It was the first local music that was developed in America. At the beginning jazz was just a kind of dance music that was performed by bands, but by the time the rhythm became t ...

(10 pages) 62 0 5.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Australia 1920s

endsand famil. Gramophones were strting to produce a much better sound and the new musical genre of jazz started to become a hit.Music And Dance: Dances held at church halls,dance studios, town halls ... yed a range of music on instruments including pianos, saxophones and drums. The new genre of jazz music filled the air at parties and dances. Young woman in three quarter-length tubular dresses ...

(2 pages) 4957 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies