Free Essays on One Of The Top Bandleaders In The Swing Era

  1. Swing Era

    Age, then the 1930s through the mid-1940s could even more aptly be termed the Swing Era. That’s because during that time the swing pulse and impulse transformed jazz and through it, much of American vernacular music. Swing music and dancing became a huge phenomenon, almost a national obsession, taking...

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    the Swing Era. The Swing Era lasted from the early 1930’s to the late 1940’s, and was called the most popular kind of jazz music during the twentieth century. A main contributor during the Swing Era was trombonist and bandleader Glenn Miller. Miller had a reputation as the most popular bandleader in the...

  3. Jazz

    jazz world creating and arranging music that no one in the United States had ever heard before. His sensations spread all across the country and he quickly became one of the most popular musicians during his time. Henderson was an American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, and contributed to the...

  4. Post-World War Ii American Popular Music

    and televisions became important mediums for the recording industry to distribute popular music. The most important technological breakthrough of this era for the music industry was tape recording. Magnetic tapes dramatically lowered the costs for recording and producing music. In addition, tapes provided...

  5. Music Terms

    Vaudeville: (1890’s-1930’s) - Predominantly in the 20’s, but dies out around the 30’s; Similar to Minstrelsy; Series of various, fast-paced acts - one after the other (magic, dog show, etc.); Shows had a particular structure - Dumb acts in the beginning (don’t really need to hear, as long as you can...

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    net/presvplist.html 2. What type of music was popular during this time period? In the 1930s, big bands and swing music were popular, with Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Glenn Miller popular bandleaders. In the 1940s, the bands started to break up, and band singers like Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan went...

  7. Music

    html http://www.fender.com/history/ The websites that I chose for this section of the assignment are packed with this history of the guitar and one of its most famous manufactures. The first website has a ton of general information on the guitar such as its origin, ancestors, similar instruments...

  8. Contribution

    Overview Technology has changed the way we live and operate, in this new era organisations are faced with an increasingly globalised and hyper-competitive market. In order to survive organisations need to learn how to foresee and respond to rapid, volatile, discontinuous change. Introduction The aim...

  9. Enlightenment and Romantic Period

    Paper The Age of the Enlightenment, the period between the years 1650 and 1780, and the Romantic Age between the years 1780 and 1873 represent two eras in which some of the most significant and important cultural and societal changes occurred. The Age of the Enlightenment saw thinkers of the day turn...

  10. Psychology Era

     Psychology Era Lancelot Palmer PSY/310 November, 30 2015 PATRICIA LAFOUNTAINE Psychology Era The vast field of psychology as it is today was shaped by the many pioneers of yesterday. Among the greats who studied, theorized and experimented their way into history is the American born...

  11. Insights Into the Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs in Baseball

    over the wall in left field. III. I used to get into trouble with my little league coach for trying to imitate his exaggerated “uppercut” home run swing. IV. I was so disappointed when in 2005 I learned that McGwire and 10 other ballplayers were being called before Congress regarding their illegal...

  12. An Insightful Approach to the Problems of the Industrial Era

    Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward provided Americans an insightful approach to the problems of the Industrial era. It gave a vision on what American society would be if it was to change its government and economic state. This was a time where Americans had formed a social hierarchy where...

  13. Women in Jazz

    also recorded See See Rider a piece that Black Popular Music in America said “one of the most famous and most recorded blues songs of all times. Rainey made the first recording of that song and one of the best of more than one hundred versions”. (“Ma Rainey” 306-308) In Looking Up at Down, William Barlow...

  14. Elizabethan Era Clothing

    corsets at all times during the day, and always wore floor length dresses. Men typically wore bloomer-like pants and shoes called mules. But, Elizabethan era clothing had different styles for different occasions and for different social classes. Several different styles remained mostly the same for all social...

  15. J480 USC Final Study Guide

    Cuban and Intel’s CEO Are Excited About Intersection of Sports/Tech a. Teams need to compete with all other forms of entertainment i. Technology is one way they stay in contention with everyone else b. “The energy within a stadium is the most important thing about being there” -Cuban i. “when someone...

  16. Which Strategy – Washington’s or Dubois’ – Was a Better One for African-Americans?

    Which strategy – Washington’s or DuBois’ – was a better one for African-Americans? According to the research I have done I have came to an agreement with Mr. Booker T. Washington. In my opinion I also believe that “no race can prosper ‘til it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field...

  17. “Although the View of Strategy as the Product of a Rational Planning Process Driven by Top Management Has Some Basis in Reality, It Is Not the Whole Story”

    by the generals and their staff. This view of strategy has been generalised, in an organisational sense, to imply that rational strategic planning by top management teams as the main strategists, create the best plans in becoming a leading company within an industry. With this in mind, my position in relation...

  18. History of the Trumpet

    pitch. The mouthpiece makes it comfortable to place your lips onto the instrument. The sound comes out through the bell. Reinhard Keiser was one of the first composers who asked for a horn in his 1705 opera Octavia. Franz Joseph Haydn wrote his first horn concerto in 1762. Other composers to...

  19. 11 Oct

    cultural history- Right. That usually accumulates later and it usually takes up, some time has to pass before we build up or a decade, right? No one is really wrap-sizing about New York in the late 2000's. No but I think people are like New York sucks because everyone's rich and the city's ruined...

  20. Defining Rap Music

    and police brutality (McLeod, 2000). Many rappers have expressed these topics over the years. Although many have categorized this musical genre as one that has the influence to ignite violence, rap music also has an unnoticed positive effect that contains a stronger underlying message. In the fall...

  21. There Was No One There

    daughter, Ellie, to the swing park at Inverleith. Normally we take it in turns to play with Ellie and this week it was Jack’s turn. I sat on the bench at the side reading my magazine and watching them with happiness. Suddenly it went dark and cold and when I looked up there was no one was there, they had...

  22. Shigeru Miyamoto

     1. Nominee Profile - Faces of Innovation I nominate Shigeru Miyamoto as a candidate for one of the “faces” of innovation. Shigeru represents many of the faces of evolution, although his primary ones are the experimenter, cross pollinator, and hurdler. Experimenter When Shigeru Miyamoto was...

  23. Memphis Soul Research

    the approximately 800 singles and 300 LPs recorded at Stax, there were 166 Top 100 songs in the pop charts, and 265 Top 100 hits in the R&B charts, nine of them Grammy winners.Under the leadership of Al Bell, the label became one of the first to evolve into a multimedia company, producing spoken-word recordings...

  24. MGMT 520 Week 1 DQ 2 As the pendulum swings. Ethics and the Law

    MGMT 520 Week 1 DQ 2 As the pendulum swings. Ethics and the Law Copy & Paste the link into your browser to download the tutorial: http://www.homeworkmade.com/mgmt-520/mgmt-520-week-1-dq-2-as-the-pendulum-swings-ethics-and-the-law/ As the pendulum swings. Ethics and the Law. All of us know...

  25. Pull Hooking in Golf

    even plagues the best golfers. There are ways to fix this problem though. After reading this hopefully one may be able to hit a push hook or draw, a ball that starts right and curves back left. One must remain hopeful because it is always easier to bring back a hook rather than a slice or other words...

  26. The Jones Brothers

    Elvin Jones were raised in Pontiac, Michigan. They grew up in a family of ten brothers and sisters with a mother and father who highly encouraged every one of them to play an instrument.  Classical music was influenced by their mother, while their father emphasized the sounds of families’ church, African-American...

  27. Marketing Mix for the Air-conditioner Top

     Product: The CoolzTop (Air-conditioned Top) I. PEST Analysis 1. P (Politic): Tax Policies: In the article ‘Tax affecting foreigners doing business in Vietnam’ (vietnamembassy-usa.org, 2015), the author mentioned these the following taxes that may affect foreigners while conducting business...

  28. Jazz: an Audible Product of Transculturation and the Embodiment of American Culture

    the fusion of different cultural features- religion, clothing, art, language, music- has produced some of the greatest aspects of American culture. One historian describes transculturation as “a give-and-take process” (Chasteen 71). The development of jazz music in New Orleans is a prime example of...

  29. exposition on golf

    Expository essay The Correct and Proper Golf Setup and Swing While there are many factors in determining the outcome of a golf shot, setting up the proper golf stance is the foundation upon which all other mechanics are built. The proper stance is made up of multiple factors. The entire outcome of...

  30. Loving Me

    running into and away from a slew of forest animals. But none of these experiences can top the time my brother Wayne talked me into losing my two front teeth. Nestled into the side of a mountain, we grew up in one of the best environments I could imagine. Surrounded by trees of all kinds, apple, peach...

  31. New Era, New Challeneges

    of Phoenix Problem Solution: Lester Electronics Lester Electronics is a national company who is currently experiencing a possible merger. A new era has brought new challenges for the technology industry and Lester Electronics is not the exception. Their main interest is to keep competitive and increase...

  32. IWT task 1

    It was the era after the Middle Ages and before Modern History. Italy was the starting ground for this era that soon spread throughout Europe. This was a time of intellectuals studying and improving secular world with new ideas and approaches to life. (The Renaissance, 2015). Music is one of the disciplines...

  33. America's Classical Music?

    African-American musical art, but through the years, has multiplied into many different styles and cultures. These styles include, but are not limited to, swing, European jazz, Bebop, and Latin jazz. For this reason, many jazz historians and scholars have boldly asserted jazz’s position as “America’s Classical...

  34. The Great Bambino

    percentage (.690), runs batted in (RBIs) (2,213), bases on balls (2,062), and on-base plus slugging (OPS) (1.164), some of which have been broken.[1] He was one of the first five inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936. At age seven, Ruth was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys...

  35. The History of Rap Music

    music began to develop in New York City. At the time it was an unknown type of music that existed in one small corner of a great big city. Few people knew that rap would revolutionize popular music. No one could have guessed the controversy it would cause or the debates it would ignite. The origin of rap...

  36. Huntington Diease

    genome and rise their function. Geneticists shtick it grit be completed by the classify 2005. An eye to of this operation geneticists are capable to swing predictive analysis. Relationship going-over, or circular mark, is old this instant the alexipharmic deliver of the gene is alien, but it nub be located...

  37. Pendulum Lab

    The Pendulum Swings Determining the Variables that Affect a Pendulum Introduction: The purpose of this lab is to prove that length is the only variable that will affect the period of a pendulum. There is a connection between the period of a pendulum and its variables length and amplitude. A pendulum...

  38. The Woods

    and branches. Because it was very steep, there was one single branch above this opening that we held onto in order not to slip. Once you made it through, there were trails going all through the clearing of woods. In front of you was a rope swing tied to the largest branch of the largest tree. On...

  39. Juan & Eva Peron - Wren Compairison

    “Evita” Duarte was Juan Perón’s wife as of October, 1945. Eva was born an illegitimate daughter of Juan Duarte, who had two separate families, one with a wife and one with a mistress. When Duarte died, any wealth passed on was inherited by his legitimate family, leaving Eva’s family with nothing. When she...

  40. Application Paper

    Three personalities fused all into one body; yes I’m referring to a person with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Frankie and Alice is a movie starring Halle Berry placed in the 1970’s. During that time era there weren’t many people diagnosed with DID; unknowing what was actually going on with...

  41. Country Report

    ended 2007 with a surplus of 6% of GDP. Over the past several years, Russia has used its stabilization fund based on oil taxes to prepay all Soviet-era sovereign debt to Paris Club creditors and the IMF. Foreign debt has decreased to 31% of GDP, mainly due to decreasing state debt, although commercial...

  42. Richard Clark

    Richard Wagstaff Clark was born November 30, 1929 in Mount Vernon, New York. His parents are Julia Fuller and Richard Augustus Clark. He had one older brother named Bradley; sadly Bradley was killed in World War II. Clark was an average student until he reached the 10th grade when he discovered radio...

  43. Tension and Circular Motion

    rubber stopper tied to a cord, which passes through short tube and from which a load is suspended. We will hold the tube with our hand, and generally swing the stopper overhead (watch for your head). INTRODUCTION: In this lab, we will perform two procedures. First circular motion is the motion of a body...

  44. Eulogy on the Life of James Stanley Beckford

    James Stanley Beckford, known to many as Journey, Baba, Cletus, Swing, Drought…just to name a few of his social names . He was born on May 23, 1927 to James Stanley Beckford, Senior and Eugenia Millena in a small fishing village called Old era. He was the fifth of six children who redeceased him, except...

  45. Top Girls

    * Buy PDF * Buy Paperback Act 1 Summary: Top Girls begins on a Saturday night. The protagonist, Marlene, is hosting a celebratory dinner for six people at a London restaurant. All of Marlene’s guests are famous women from the past. The first to arrive is Isabella Bird, who congratulates Marlene...

  46. Penguin press equipment broad sales channels

     Zhengzhou penguins machinery in our website, we learn in the news, rice bran, can be said to be one of the very valuable oil resources.The rice bran refined oil equipment machinery would understand, what is a crude fat, crude fat exactly how much oil containing content in rice bran. Crude fat is...

  47. Annotated Bibliography: Childrens Books

    reassurance among children and teaches them not to fear independence. Kotzwinkle, W., Murray, G. (2001). Walter the Farting Dog. Berkeley: Frog, Ltd. One day, Billy and Betty rescued a dog from the neighborhood pound. The dog seemed normal at first, but as the days progressed, the entire family seemed...

  48. Baseball Bat

    Tape a Baseball Bat In life we have many trials and tribulations, and we can relate them to anything. When I first moved to Allen, Texas I knew no one and nothing about the people living here. Soon a found a select baseball team with a coach named Nathan Richey, not knowing he would teach me things...

  49. How Did Japan Administer Its Southeast Asian ‘Empire’ and What Was the Response in (One or Two) Southeast Asian Countries to Japanese Occupation?

    How did Japan administer its Southeast Asian ‘empire’ and what was the response in (one or two) Southeast Asian countries to Japanese occupation? In the grand scheme of world history Japan was one of the last countries to try their hand at colonisation. Stemming from domestic feelings of inadequacy...

  50. American Music and Culture: Jazz Dance

    dance paralleled the birth and spread of jazz itself from roots in black American society and was popularized in ballrooms by the big bands of the swing era (1930s and ’40s). It radically altered the style of American and European stage and social dance in the 20th century. The term is sometimes used more...

  51. sports

    school coach in the Lone Star State. His mother’s brother, Marty Akins, was the starting quarterback for the University of Texas during the Earl Campbell era. Both of those jobs sounded pretty good to Drew. So while other children were playing with Hot Wheels, he was dreaming about a career as a football player...

  52. Certificate of Childcare and Education Unit One

    that snap together. [pic] Can walk up and down the stair confidently. 3 Years Fine Manipulative skills [pic] Turns pages in a book one by one. [pic] Holds a crayon and can draw a face. [pic] Uses a spoon without spilling. [pic] Washes and dries hands with help. [pic]...

  53. Hedda Gabler and Linkin Park

    no longer a reason to be dissatisfied with life. In the song, there is a line that says “time is a valuable thing; watch it fly by as the pendulum swings; watch it count down to the end of the day; the clock ticks life away” and I believe this is what Hedda was thinking when she was “boring herself to...

  54. TOP MANAGERS LEVEL COMPENSATION

    CODE: COURSE TITLE: INSTRUCTORS NAME: TOP MANAGERS LEVEL COMPENSATION Executive employees, such as chief executive officers, chief financial officers, company presidents...

  55. The Advance Feature of Contemporary Java

    Course Contents: Module I Introduction to Java RMI, RMI services, RMI client, Running client and server, Introduction of Swing, Swing Components, Look and Feel for Swing Components, Introduction to Multimedia Programming. Module II ODBC and JDBC Drivers, Connecting to Database with the java...

  56. The best butter in the world

    lobotomy Since the Neolithic Era, healers have been using trephination to aid in the relief of many health issues: migraines, seizures, and mental disorders, etc. Trephination was also thought to let evil spirits escape the body, and thus, cure the ailing patient. It is one of the first surgical procedures...

  57. Rock and Roll

    crossover success; in some cases (such as Jordan's "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie") this success was achieved with songs written by white songwriters. The Western swing genre in the 1930s, generally played by white musicians, also shared similarities with rock and roll, and in turn directly influenced rockabilly and...

  58. County Park

    of tea or you children are to young to enjoy it then there is a five star playground. With everything from a four-story jungle gym to a swing set with enough swings that you will never have to wait again. On the other hand if you are to that age where you really have no desire to play and you just want...

  59. You Can Count on Me

    ” at the top of their lungs. It made me smile, in a good way. It made me remember exactly what I was playing for, exactly what was on the line. It was typically harder for me though. This year, five freshmen made the Varsity softball team, and I was one of them. It was a pressure no one understood...

  60. Sensor Networks

    extracted, it can be used in many ways.It can be analyzed in a sniffer such as Wireshark.It can be examined for flows of traffic, providing information on "top talkers" in a network as well as TCP round-trip time.It can be reassembled according to an application's state machine into end-user activity for example...