Jackson Browne has been a vocal and eloquent advocate of social justice for over three decades. He has spoken out against US foreign policy, particularly as it applies to Central America, and his music has affected change through the increased social awareness of his large fan base, fans who are also voters.
Clyde Jackson Browne was born on October 9, 1948 in Heidelberg, Germany to
Jack Browne and Beatrice Amanda Dahl. Jackson's father was also a musician, a talent he inherited from his own father. Jack once performed with French jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, and recorded with both Mahalia Jackson and Jack
Teagarden. His father's love of Dixieland jazz and his jam sessions were most likely
Jackson's earliest musical influence. His family moved to Los Angeles when he was three years old, and by the time he was a teenager, Browne had developed an interest in folk music. He began playing guitar and writing songs, which he sang at local folk clubs. In early 1966 Jackson Browne joined the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for a brief time, performing at The Golden Bear where they opened for The Lovin' Spoonful.
The band later recorded a number of Jackson's songs including "These Days,"
"Melissa" and "Holding", and "Shadow Dream Song". Among his early songs,
"These Days" and "Shadow Dream Song" were the strongest showcases that Jackson was musically gifted far beyond his years. "Shadow Dream Song" was recorded...
When he went with his brother to France he performed with an avant-garde musical theater group known as Le Grand Magic Circus. He then decided to travel through Ghana, Mali, and Upper Volta in Africa experiencing new musical styles that would influence his own style. While in Africa he contracted malaria. When he finally returned to the United States he began studying at CalArts even though he was not really a student there.
chopping wood - introduced him to early rock & roll and rhythm & blues music.
In 1884, Joplin left home and traveled the Midwest for some time as an intinerant pianist playing in saloons and brothels. He settled in St. Louis a few years later and continued his studies. He found employment there in the city's prostitution district playing as a cafe pianist.
room and play then, he took piano lessons when he was seven. By the age of
Nina Simone used music to challenge, provoke, incite, and inform the masses during the period that we know as the Civil Rights Era. In the songs” Four Women”, “Young Gifted and Black”, and Mississippi God Damn”, Nina Simone musically maps a personal "intersectionality" as it relates to being a black American female artist. Kimberly Crenshaw defines "intersectionality" as an inability for black women to separate race, class and gender. Nina Simone’s music directly addresses this paradigm. While she is celebrated as a prolific artist her political and social activism is understated despite her front- line presence in the movement. According to Ruth Feldstein “Nina Simone recast black activism in the 1960’s.” Feldstein goes on to say that “Simone was known to have supported the struggle for black freedom in the United States much earlier, and in a more outspoken manner around the world than had many other African American entertainers.”
He had exposure to several different genres growing up in his St. Louis, MO hometown. He heard country from the whites, rhythm & blues (R&B) from mostly blacks, even Latin music. His family environment set him up well for future success while growing up in a middle class home in the middle of the Great Depression of the 1930s. His parents sun...
There have been many African Americans who have been prominent in the history of this nation. Many of them are remembered for how they stood up against oppression and helped to gain equality for all people. One of these people is Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, an ordained Baptist minister and also a crusader for rights of African Americans. Jesse Jackson has spent his life fighting for equality in the United States and has become an important political figure because of it. The life time, achievements, activism, and even controversies of Jesse Jackson are some of the reasons he is viewed as such an important person today.
Michael Jackson and his family were brought up in Gary, Indiana. On August 29, 1958 Michael Joseph Jackson was born. Michael Jackson’s father Joseph Jackson and mother Katherine Jackson were together for most of Michael’s life. They built a family together of 8 kids. Joe had been a musician and played they the guitar but was forced to stop playing to take care of his kids. By the early 1960’s Tito, Jackie, and Jermaine had started to perform by 1964 Michael and his brother Marlon had join the group.
Jackson grew up in an Irish community. Growing up, Jackson was very mature and masculine. At a very young age, Jackson’s mom knew that he would grow up to do great things. At a young thirteen-years old, Jackson served in the militia, which shows his love for the country and how even at a young age, Jackson knew that the USA was his home. This made Jackson a great role model for his brothers and friends, a quality of a good person. Also, his devotion for fighting for what he believed in, shows his selflessness because of the fact that no matter what, he was going to keep fighting. Since Jackson devoted most...
Michael Jackson, king of pop was an American singer, songwriter, dancer and record producer. His contribution to the music, dance and fashion industry was immense and he was a global figure so many people around the world. Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 as an eight child of an African American family living in a small house in Gary, Indiana. He faced many hardships during his child such as being abused as a child, as his father confessed to being abusive towards him “ 'I don 't [regret the beatings], ' he said. 'It kept them out of jail and kept them right.”. This actually played a big role in his success.
the world. Gershwin , at the young age of fifteen, quit school and became a song plugger.
odd jobs and eventually made his way to California where he met his future wife,
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You know him as the singer, the dancer, and the song writer. As the famous Artist whose words were often binary. As a man that was regarded with much adulation and scrutiny for singing and acting with audacity. The one and only, Michael Joseph Jackson, well known performer and the producer of many great songs, as well as the inventor of the moonwalk. Jackson often released songs that had powerful messages behind them e.g. 'We Are the World' and “Black and White”. Michael Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us” released as part of the “HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I” album in 1996, was addressed to “the people” in an effort to promote equality, justice, and peace. However, it led to unexpected controversy