American Music Essays (Examples)
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Music And Culture Marvin Gaye
… from his father that he learned to sing and the two of them—father on piano and Marvin in the choir—would lead the church music sessions during Marvin’s youth (Turner, 1998). At 17, Marvin finally ran away from home and joined the Air Force. After a year of … world of lust and sensual pleasure to him (Ritz, 1991).
Marvin returned to D.C. but by 1960 had moved to Detroit to pursue music opportunities in Motown there. He played drums and sang and performed at Motown President Barry Gordy’s home in 1960 and as a result … for romantic unions thanks to hits like “Let’s Get It On.” Gaye started out with R&B and Motown but grew politically in his music approach throughout the early 1970s, addressing the issues of violence and racism in his society. By the 80s, however, he wanted to get … of good feeling and thus……
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Gulla, B. (2008). Icons of R&B and Soul: An Encyclopedia of the Artists Who Revolutionized Rhythm. ABC-CLIO.
Posner, G. (2002). Motown : Music, Money, Sex, and Power. New York: Random House.
Ritz, D. (1991). Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye. Cambridge, Mass: Da Capo Press.
Turner, S. (1998). Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye. London: Michael Joseph.
Vincent, R. (1996). Funk: The Music, the People, and the Rhythm of the One. Macmillan.
Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Complete Chart Information About America's Most Popular Songs and Artists, 1955–2003. Billboard Books.
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Effects Of Domestic Violence On African American Women
Effects of Domestic Violence on African- american Women: Opinion Paper
Issue and History of the Issue
Young women are primary victims of domestic violence and it has been estimated that … violence in the U.S. (NCADV, 2017). This issue is therefore one that is quite serious, but it is one that particularly impacts the African-american community. African-american women struggle particularly because the African-american family has suffered for decades in the U.S. because of a number of issues—from the incarceration of black men to such an extent … when black women were used and abused by their Masters on plantations (Franklin, 2000). That tradition of neglect and violence has continued in american culture to this day.
Prevalence/Trends
According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (2017), 40% of black women experience violence from a partner. … experience violence from a partner. According to Rennison and Welchans (2000) the numbers are even……
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References
Adorno, T., & Horkheimer, M. (2007). The culture industry: Enlightenment as mass deception. Stardom and celebrity: A reader, 34.
Bandura, A. (2018). Toward a psychology of human agency: Pathways and reflections. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(2), 130-136.
Bent-Goodley, T.B. (2001). Eradicating domestic violence in the African American community: A literature review and action agenda. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse: A Review Journal, 2,316-330.
Franklin, D.L. (2000). What\\\\\\'s love got to do with it? Understanding and healing the rift Between Black men and women. New York: Simon and Schuster
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Calle Ocho Festival Miami
… Ocho street festival was almost exclusively Cuban in character. Now the Calle Ocho festival reflects shifting demographics and the greater diversity of Latin american people in South Florida. I selected the Calle Ocho street festival as an example of what the overall area has to offer. The … festival in the entire country,” (Benowitz 1). Calle Ocho is important to share with the world because of the way it showcases Latin american music, food, art, dance, and culture and also because of the way it defines Miami as a unique urban hub.
Traditionally, the Calle Ocho ……
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Works Cited
“8 Reasons to Fall In Love With Little Havana and Calle Ocho.” The Miami Herald. Retrieved from: https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-com/things-to-do/article225811520.html
Benowitz, Shane. “Calle Ocho Music Festival.” Miami and Beaches. Retrieved from: https://www.miamiandbeaches.com/events/detail/calle-ocho-music-festival/f8f6984e-103a-4784-beff-f6a05c61e9d3
Calle Ocho.com. The MSC 2019 kick-off party. Retrieved from: https://www.calleocho.com/
“Little Havana, Miami, neighborhood guide.” Time Out. Retrieved from: https://www.timeout.com/miami/little-havana
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Female Hip Hop Artists Impact
… though their accomplishments and impact have been understated and unsung. Yet any cursory examination of the history of hip hop reveals countless female music and performers. Some, like Queen Latifah, Missy Elliot, Salt-N-Pepa, Lauryn Hill, and Nicki Minaj, become household words. Hundreds of others remain behind the … Elliot, Salt-N-Pepa, Lauryn Hill, and Nicki Minaj, become household words. Hundreds of others remain behind the scenes, known mainly to audiophiles or serious music historians. Tracing hip hop back to its roots shows how the music genre and its ethos evolved as the counterpart to a broader movement for social and political change. Women have remained at the forefront … deserve, but the artists who have made it their business have paved the way for younger women to take control over their image, music, and branding. Women have at times mimicked their male counterparts, such as through female-led gangsta rap, but……
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Bruce, La Mar Jurelle. “’The People Inside My Head, Too’: Madness, Black Womanhood, and the Radical Performance of Lauryn Hill.” African American Review, Vol. 45, No. 3 (2012): 371-389.
Jamerson, J’na. ““Best-of” lists and conversations often exclude women. Why?” BBC. 8 Oct, 2019. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191007-why-are-there-so-few-women-in-best-of-hip-hop-polls
Morris, Tyana. “The Evolution of Women in Hip Hop.” The Pine Needle. 31 Jan, 2018. Retreived from https://www.pineneedlenews.com/single-post/2018/01/31/The-Evolution-of-Women-in-Hip-Hop
Orcutt, KC. “Each One, Teach One | What generations of women in hip hop teach us about perseverance.” Revolt. Oct 16, 2019. Retrieved from https://www.revolt.tv/2019/10/16/20917629/women-in-hip-hop-lessons
Oware, Matthew. “A ‘Man’s Woman’?” Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 39, No. 5 (2007): 786-802.
Tillet, S. (2014). Strange Sampling: Nina Simone and Her Hip-Hop Children. American Quarterly, 66(1), 119–137. doi:10.1353/aq.2014.0006
UDiscover (2019). Let’s talk about the female MCs who shaped hip-hop. Dec 9, 2019. Retrieved from https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/the-female-rappers-who-shaped-hip-hop/
White, Theresa R. “Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott and Nicki Minaj.” Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 44, No. 6, (2013): 607–626. doi:10.1177/0021934713497365
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The Piano Lesson By August Wilson
Prompt 2: The Piano Lesson and the Blues
The blues is described as a uniquely African american music tradition, combining folk music, traditional work songs once sun by slaves, jazz, and other music traditions to describe both personal suffering and to create an oral history of all individuals who have sung it. In August Wilson’s 1986 … piano into money, as Boy Willie wishes to do, or to save it, becomes symbolic of the role of the blues in African american history and society. The blues, like the piano itself, is problematic because of its ties to the history of slavery, but it cannot … it cannot be nor should not be eradicated, given the loss this will create for the community.
The piano was carved by African american slave, and is an important part of the family legacy and history. While the family are sharecroppers during the Great Depression,……
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Wilson, August. The Piano Lesson. Turtleback Books, 1990.
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Hip Hop History And Culture
… of sampling tracks from other songs and artists that are not in any way associated with hip hop has enabled the genre of music to reinvent songs and sounds in a way that brings new life and new blood to art form. By sampling other artists hip … has transcended the status quo and incorporated everything that has come before into something that is unique in much the same way African american music did in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when they developed the music genres of jazz and blues by incorporating other music traditions into their own music experiences and creating something wholly their own. Hip hop history and culture is thus a blend of the black experience in America that … Furious Five was no exception. As Jon Pareles points out, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five “proved that hip-hop was more than party music……
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Works Cited
BBC. “The birth of hip hop.” BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04s04nk
Best, Steven, and Douglas Kellner. "Rap, black rage, and racial difference." Enculturation 2.2 (1999): 1-23.
Brown, Jake. Tupac Shakur, (2-Pac) in the Studio: The Studio Years (1989-1996). Phoenix, AZ: Colossus Books, 2005.
Decker, Jeffrey Louis. "The state of rap: Time and place in hip hop nationalism." Social Text 34 (1993): 53-84.
Fluker, Walter. The Stones that the Builders Rejected. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1998.
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. “The Message.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobrSpMwKk4
Jones, E. Michael. Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2000.
Pareles, Jon. “Hip-Hop Is Rock ’n’ Roll, and Hall of Fame Likes It.” The New York Times, 13 March 2007. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/arts/music/13hall.html
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Brown V Board Of Education And Civil Rights Moment By Michael Klarman
… Board of Education and the Civil Rights Moment is that Brown v. Board of Education was a pivotal and massively important moment in american history—but not for the reasons that are typically given. The common understanding of Brown v. Board of Education is that it ended segregation … in the North in the years after the Civil War.”[footnoteRef:2] Racism was not just a regional issue; rather, it had been entrenched in american politics throughout the country and to a large degree it was institutionalized. The Jim Crow Era was proof of the institutionalization of racism … segregation,’ than with blacks, ‘who are coerced into it.’”[footnoteRef:3] The decision rendered in the court case was supported by the majority of the american public, polls showed.[footnoteRef:4] The Justices were not going against the grain of american sentiment or popular opinion by ending segregation in schools. However, they were concerned that they might……
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Bibliography
Cripps, Thomas and and David Culbert. “The Negro Soldier (1944): Film Propaganda in Black and White.” American Quarterly Vol. 31, No. 5, Special Issue: Film and American Studies (Winter, 1979), pp. 616-640: The Josh Hopkins University Press.
German, Kathleen M. Promises of Citizenship: Film Recruitment of African Americans in World War 2. University Press of Mississippi, 2017.
Klarman, Michael. Brown v Board of Education and the Civil Rights Moment. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Impact Of Culture On Domestic Violence
… The culture of media, friends, family, schools, churches and other organizations may all play a part in explaining domestic violence situations. The African american culture has been affected by a number of different issues, such as low socio-economic status, stereotypical media representations that reinforce negative images, and … in prison is disproportionately black (Davis, 2012). Culture in this sense helps to explain why and how domestic violence festers in the African american community as it does and why nearly half of all black women will experience domestic violence at some point in their lives (Institute … a cycle of anger and resentment, which is compounded by other media depictions of black activities especially those in hip hop, rap and music videos by artists like 50 Cent or Lil Wayne. Blacks are portrayed as womanizing drug addicted hoodlums. Kanye West confesses that he too ……
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Adorno, T. & Horkheimer, M. (2007). The culture industry: Enlightenment as mass deception. Stardom and celebrity: A reader, 34, 2007.
Bandura, A. (2018). Toward a psychology of human agency: Pathways and reflections. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(2), 130-136. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617699280
Breger, M. L. (2017). Reforming by re-norming: How the legal system has the potential to change a toxic culture of domestic violence. J. Legis., 44, 170.
Cashmore, E. (2006). The Black culture industry. Routledge.
Coleman, L. (1974). Carl Van Vechten Presents the New Negro. Studies in the Literary Imagination, 7(2), 85.
Cramer, E. P., Choi, Y. J., & Ross, A. I. (2017). Race, Culture, and Abuse of Persons with Disabilities. In Religion, Disability, and Interpersonal Violence (pp. 89-110). Champaign, IL: Springer.
Davis, A. (2012). The Meaning of Freedom. San Francisco, CA: City Light Books.
Decker, J. L. (1993). The state of rap: Time and place in hip hop nationalism. Social Text, (34), 53-84.
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Hills Like White Elephants Sonny S Blues And The Rocking Horse Winner
… back, as everything must be given back, so that, passing through death, it can live forever.” Baldwin says this about Sonny and his music, which is how he expresses his love. I think it is what Baldwin was expressing in his writing, giving his love back to ……
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Depression In The Military
...American music The Military and Mental Health
Introduction
The military provides an opportunity for men and women to serve their country. However, in the conduct of that service there are certain risks that can damage the mental health of military servicemen. Those risks can be associated with PTSD incurred from situations in combat, abuse, drug addiction, or lack of a positive value system that causes a soldier to deteriorate from within as he has nothing beyond his duty in the military to give him meaning or to sustain him through the long hours, months and years. Some servicemen go to their doctors for assistance and end up being overprescribed medications that only exacerbate their issues and further the decline of their mental health (Snow & Wynn, 2018). If not treated, service-related depression can lead to suicide—and as Kang et al. (2015) show, suicide risk among veterans returning from the Middle East has……
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Bonde, J. P., Utzon-Frank, N., Bertelsen, M., Borritz, M., Eller, N. H., Nordentoft, M., ... & Rugulies, R. (2016). Risk of depressive disorder following disasters and military deployment: systematic review with meta-analysis. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 208(4), 330-336.
Bonelli, R., Dew, R. E., Koenig, H. G., Rosmarin, D. H., & Vasegh, S. (2012). Religious and spiritual factors in depression: review and integration of the research. Depression research and treatment, 2012.
Casey Jr, G. W. (2011). Comprehensive soldier fitness: A vision for psychological resilience in the US Army. American Psychologist, 66(1), 1.
Dolphin, K. E., Steinhardt, M. A., & Cance, J. D. (2015). The role of positive emotions in reducing depressive symptoms among Army wives. Military Psychology, 27(1), 22-35.
Griffith, J., & West, C. (2013). Master resilience training and its relationship to individual well-being and stress buffering among Army National Guard soldiers. The journal of behavioral health services & research, 40(2), 140-155.
Kang, H. K., Bullman, T. A., Smolenski, D. J., Skopp, N. A., Gahm, G. A., & Reger, M. A. (2015). Suicide risk among 1.3 million veterans who were on active duty during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Annals of epidemiology, 25(2), 96-100.
Maslow, A. H. (1943). A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review, 50(4), 370.
Reivich, K. J., Seligman, M. E., & McBride, S. (2011). Master resilience training in the US Army. American Psychologist, 66(1), 25.
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