Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album Essays

  • Trip To The Bahamas

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    Utopia On a cold wintery 10 degree fahrenheit day in December Blaize decided he was going to go on a cruise ship with his friends to the Bahamas where the weather has been 75-80 degrees fahrenheit. Blaize likes to spend lots of time outside. He likes to make fires, hunt, fish, snowboard, play soccer, and shoot sports. Blaize and his friends Seth, Matt, Leonard, and Cameron all enjoy many of the same things. We drove from Pennsylvania down to Miami Florida where the cruise ship was to boarded

  • Themes Of Bob Dylans Music

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    funny old world that’s coming along. Seems sick and it’s hungry, it’s tired and it’s torn, it looks like it’s dying and it’s hardly been born.”After he graduated high school in the early 1959 Dylan found himself playing folk music. This is also the time he began to write his legendary folk songs. In the 1960s Bob Dylan had turned the themes of his music to protest what many people consider the wrongs of society. In his songs he writes about the “luckless, the abandoned and’ forsaken,” as he put it in

  • Research Paper On John R Cash

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    John R. Cash was born in Kingsland, Arkansas on February 26, 1932 to Ray Cash and Carrie Cloveree. Cash died September 12, 2003. John R. Cash had seven children: Roseanne, Carlene, Kathy, Rosie, Cindy, Tara, and John. Johnny’s nickname was “The Man In Black.” Cash was enlisted in the Air Force in 1950 and was sent to Texas where Cash met his wife. They would not let him use his initials as his real name so he had to use his legal name which was John R. Cash. After he served in the army, he started

  • Peter Gabriel, Van Morrison, and Don Henley

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    Morrison, and Don Henley Peter Gabriel has earned a worldwide reputation for his innovative work as a musician, writer and video maker. When at school, he CO-founded the band Genesis which he left in 1975. His albums, live performances and videos since then have won him a succession of awards. In 1980, he collected together a group of people to found WOMAD (World of Music, Arts & Dance). In a series of international festivals, each year WOMAD brings together traditional and modern music, arts and dance

  • Wondrous Stories: For Whom We Give the Meddle

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    musical discipline. Britannica defines 'progressive rock' as "'intellectual' album-oriented rock [...] either classically influenced [...] employ[ing] complicated and conceptual approaches to music." Progressive rock (casually abbreviated to 'prog', which includes all progressive sub-genres including but not limited to progressive metal, progressive folk, zeuhl, as well as certain space rock, fusion and psychedelic albums). As shown by Britannica's definition, it is far easier to define the genre

  • Bob Dylan

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    to take on the whole world and make me feel like I had 'em too..." - Bruce Springsteen The Grammy Awards ceremony in 1991 was not all that different from those which preceded it. A crowded auditorium littered with the beautiful people of Hollywood and the music industry once again gathered in Los Angeles to honor the year's most popular recording artists. However, at the time of this year's awards the country was in the midst of its first significant military action since the Vietnam conflict

  • Brad Paisley and Country Music

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    music and mountain music. When people hear country music, they think of “Rednecks” or “Hillbillies” out on the country side singing songs about losing their wife, dog, best friend or any other sad subject. This is not true and it showed by becoming one of the most popular music forms of the 20th century. Country music is one of the best-selling genres after rock and pop. To help understand country music, it’s useful to look at the musical instruments. The fiddle/violin was the most common instrument

  • Kanye Omari West's Life and Accomplishments

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    “Kanye Ran onto the stage saying, ‘I'm sorry, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!’” (Top 10 Outrageous Kanye West Moments), says Kanye West at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards after Taylor Swift had just won “Best Female Video.” People that are like this have typically not always been this way. They were probably raised as a polite and respectful person before they were exposed to fame and fortune, and other “celebrities,” making them feel like they are the only people on the planet

  • Whoopi Goldberg Research Paper

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    Caryn Eliane Johnson better known as Whoopi Goldberg, has many achievements from being an American actress, award winning comedian, television host, human rights advocate, and mother. Whoopi was born on November 13th 1955 in Chelsea, New York City raised by a single mother Emma Johnson with her younger brother Clyde.” Goldberg's father abandoned the family, and her single mother worked at a variety of jobs—including teaching and nursing—to make ends meet.” (Biography.com Editors, Paragraph 3) Ever

  • Gospel Music Vs Rap Music

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    Music is universal. Everyone either loves music or they absolutely hate it. There are many different music genres. There is Rock, J-pop, Folk, R&B, Contemporary, Rap / Hip Hop, Reggae, Jazz, Gospel, Classical, K-pop, World (music from certain places. Example Afro, is from Africa), Dubstep, etc. There are different artists / songs that fit into each genre. For example, in Rap / Hip Hop there is Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Kanye West. In Pop, you would find Meghan Trainor, Ariana Grande, and Taylor

  • A Comparison Of Jimi Hendrix And Ritchie Valens

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    Two very influential artists of their time were Jimi Hendrix and Ritchie Valens. Many people wouldn’t consider these two artists to be similar nor have achieved the same success, however they’re paths were quite similar. Both these artists began their careers very early in their lives and were able to influence others artists along the way. Many of their songs also made the top charts. Although both their careers were short lived, both these artists left a mark in the world of music. Jimi Hendrix

  • Cumbia The Folk Music of Colombia

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    Cumbia the Folk Music of Colombia For Colombians, Cumbia is the best representation of our three ethnic backgrounds such as Colombian Indigenous, Africans and Spanish. Each culture brought its own language, corporal expressions, and passion. Cumbia was the product of history of pain and humiliation in the colonization time. In this paper, I will to share with you the importance of Cumbia music as an expression of culture and national pride for Colombians. Cumbia is a dance that evokes legendary ancestors