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  • Thought on the Music Industry

    Thought on the Music Industry

    With the stunning global success of Apple’s iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to “open” the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, so that music purchased from iTunes can be played on digital devices purchased from other companies, and protected music purchased from other online music stores can play on iPods. Let’s examine the current situation and how we got

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    Submitted: April 8, 2010 By: Monika
  • Can the Music Industry Change Its Tune?

    Can the Music Industry Change Its Tune?

    Group task report- Dollar General Background: Dollar General is... Question 1: Describe Dollar General’s business strategy. Why has the company been so successful? Whilst Dollar General is unable to keep up with Wal-Mart in terms of total revenue, it makes its mark in earning a greater percentage of revenue on each dollar of sales. Dollar Generals revenue per dollar of sales for the last year was 4.3 cents, compared to 3.5 cents for Wal-Mart. There

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    Submitted: April 10, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Gospel Music

    Gospel Music

    Gospel Music Gospel music is considered to have begun in the United States, sometime in the nineteenth century. The first time that appeared in print was in 1874. The English term “gospel” translates to the meaning of good news, or a joyous message. This is a form of American religious music. A lot of its origin is from the Christian conversions of West Africans who were enslaved in the American south. Gospel music gradually developed

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    Essay Length: 495 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 11, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Music

    Music

    From the beginning of time, musicians have played a popular part of our history. Music can be the rapid flowing adrenaline in your vanes, or it can be the soothing melody to put the mind to rest. Music has made positive contributions to peoples lives, the more someone listens and enjoys their music; the more they become potentially influenced. Overall, there is a lot of positive music and good musicians that impact society. The

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    Essay Length: 553 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 11, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Rap Music

    Rap Music

    Back in the days, all you heard in the radio was west coast rap. Now a days all you hear are music from the south like crunk, finger snap, and chopped and served. Crunk music is a style of music that you go to a club and have a good time dancing while while hearing the bass himble through your body. All this crunk music style started when a producer named Lil John came

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    Essay Length: 602 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 11, 2010 By: Jessica
  • The Driving Force Behind Popular Music

    The Driving Force Behind Popular Music

    The Driving Force behind Popular Music By Brian Wojcik English 101 March 9th, 2005 The Driving Force behind Popular Music: Music is the universal constant of self expression. In many cases, the shaping of society evolves around music. To break down, but not restrict the branches of music, the following will be discussed; Psychology through Music, Music and the Church, the Education of Music, as well as Music as Entertainment. The analysis of these subjects

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    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Expression Through Music

    Expression Through Music

    Expression through Music Music genres are distinctively categorized by the tone and feel of the lyrics they portray. Three popular types of music are rap, pop, and country. These three genres have been competing on the American Billboard charts for years which show the respect they have earned from their loyal listeners. Each genre has created a strong base because its characteristics are determined by the artists themselves and are an artwork of personal and

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    Essay Length: 809 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • Indie Music

    Indie Music

    I heard the term "indie" bounced around a lot these days and I wonder what the definition of indie is. I think of it as a reference to a musician, small record label or film company without an affiliation with a major corporation. I read this article by Bob Baker, the author of "Branding Yourself Online: How to Use the Internet to Become a Celebrity or Expert in Your Field" and the "Guerrilla Music Marketing

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Jimi Hendrix: A True Legend of Music

    Jimi Hendrix: A True Legend of Music

    Jimi Hendrix: A true legend of music Jimi Hendrix, the greatest guitarist in rock history, revolutionized the sound of rock. In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience rocked the nation with their first album, Are You Experienced?. Hendrix's life was cut short by the tragedy of drugs in 1970, when he was only twenty seven years old. In these three years the sound of rock changed greatly, and Hendrix's guitar playing was a major influence.

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    Essay Length: 873 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 15, 2010 By: Mike
  • G.G. Music Essay

    G.G. Music Essay

    2-3-05 G.G. Music Project F Block In my project I chose a variety of songs. I have fast paste songs and some slow paste songs. I chose these songs because they want to make jump and some may even make you down to earth and very relaxed. My choice of songs date back from the swinging 30’s to the banging music of today. Jitter Bug by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is most likely the

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    Submitted: April 15, 2010 By: Steve
  • Music as a Business (dj)

    Music as a Business (dj)

    Disc Jockey The term disk jockey was first used to describe radio announcers who would introduce and play popular records. These records, also called discs by those in the music industry (radio), were jockeyed by the radio announcers, hence the name disk jockey, which soon enough was shortened to DJ. Today, there are a number of factors, including the selected music, the intended audience, the performance setting, and the dj’s style of mixing that have

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    Submitted: April 17, 2010 By: Mike
  • College Sports and Academics

    College Sports and Academics

    College Sports and Academics Division I college Football has never had a negative connotation. It is a stepping stone and training ground for athletes wanting to challenge their limits, improve themselves, and ultimately become professionals. This is true for almost all college sports. Becoming a pro athlete may not always be the goal, “As in life, [sport] is really about competition, teamwork, and succeeding-or failing-after a worthy struggle,” as sportswriter John Feinstein says. After reading

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    Essay Length: 1,592 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 17, 2010 By: July
  • Spirit of Music

    Spirit of Music

    I thought that the song Ў°Where is the LoveЎ± by the Black Eyed Peas was a perfect song to demonstrate spirituality and ethics. The whole song is about the title itself; they are questioning where all of the love has gone on this earth. There is so much anger and negativity everywhere that it really does leave us questioning where all the love for one another has gone. With the many wars (which are mainly

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    Essay Length: 341 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Janna
  • Us Music Industry

    Us Music Industry

    Industry brief: Music recording In the music business is one is a set of recording companies that produce over 20,000 new recordings each year, The object of the recording companies is to get these titles on the shelves of retailers and then to get them off the shelves into the hands of the public. These shelves are very full. And not only are recordings in every type of music contending for shelf space, but they

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    Submitted: April 19, 2010 By: Yan
  • Music: Is It All Bad?

    Music: Is It All Bad?

    Albums with explicit lyrics or content started having black and white parental advisories on them in 1994 (http://www.riaa.org/Parents-Advisory-4.cfm). Are these labels necessary? Is controversial music molding our society and causing teenagers to turn to drugs? Is censorship necessary to protect the youth of our nation. Generally, younger people are against censorship on this issue. Music is an outlet and even an anti-drug for many teens -- however, parents and society feel differently. Should parents censor

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    Submitted: April 20, 2010 By: Mikki
  • The Relationship Between the Vietnam War and Music of the Usa

    The Relationship Between the Vietnam War and Music of the Usa

    The Relationship Between The Vietnam War And Music Of The U.S.A. Case Study: Jimi Hendrix This essay looks at musician Jimi Hendrix’s musical reactions to the American involvement in the Vietnam War. This research has taken place as part of a larger piece of work examining the links between the Vietnam War and Music in the U.S.A. US troops became officially involved in the war from 1965 and didn’t withdraw until 1973 following the signing

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    Essay Length: 1,126 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 20, 2010 By: Artur
  • Blood Music by Greg Bear

    Blood Music by Greg Bear

    Blood Music By Greg Bear Frankie Hutchison Technology, Society and Culture Blood Music by Greg Bear explores the evolution technology. My first assumption from just looking at the title was that this article was going to be about the deathly violence in some types of music. It took three times of reading this article to try to figure out if this was really a Science fiction article or if this article touched on possibilities of

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    Essay Length: 983 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 21, 2010 By: Janna
  • Techno Music

    Techno Music

    Techno Electronic music has been around since the late 60's and is now a very popular type of music among many poeple. My favorite genre of electronic music is Techno. Techno is a hard edge driven dance music that contains electronic sounds, high-energy, and a rhythmic beat. The sounds can range from simple beats of a drum to TV and movie dialogue or siren screams. Around 1986, there was a scene in Detroit which began

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    Submitted: April 21, 2010 By: Top
  • Music and Mood

    Music and Mood

    Music has the unique ability to affect the listeners’ mood. When an athlete is pumping himself up for a game, a mathematician is trying to solve an equation, what does he do? He listens to music. When a man is romancing a woman, or a heartbroken girl is trying to calm herself after a breakup, music is used to set the tone. A director can convey a defined emotion in a scene with the right

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    Essay Length: 1,618 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 21, 2010 By: Janna
  • Traditional Music Vs International Music

    Traditional Music Vs International Music

    Music is one thing , in this world , which nobody hates. A person may not like to hear music always, but he will definitely not hate music. This is the reason, there are many different types of music in the world today. Music can be played in many ways, one can play with strings, sticks, or just a humming. In olden days music has a very good medicinal importance. A pregnant woman , who

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    Essay Length: 305 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Music

    Music

    Before the portrayal of the human body can be critiqued, you must understand the artist's culture. As man evolved over centuries, his views of the body also transformed. Our tour definitely showed the drastic changes in different cultures' art. Each culture and era presents very distinct characteristics. Through time and experimentation, we have expressed our views of the human body clearly with our art. Egyptians were the first people to make a large impact on

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    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Negative Music and the Effects on Human Behavior

    Negative Music and the Effects on Human Behavior

    I have chosen to write about negative music and its effect on human behavior. I will trace the history of this type of music and discuss some studies which point out effects of listening to it. What is negative music? Negative music is music that has a negative effect. One form of negative music is music that is used to express or to stimulate negative emotions. A Viennese classical composer named Arnold Schonberg was the

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    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Monika
  • The Power of Music

    The Power of Music

    The Power of Music Hal A. Lingerman once said, “Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.” The truth is when considering the different parts of a human beings development, music is one of the areas where there is a great deal of unknowns. Some people believe that music can actually affect the organization and arrangement of

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    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Steve
  • Music in the Middle Ages

    Music in the Middle Ages

    There were many different things that went on in the Middle Ages. One thing was music. Music in the Middle Ages was very important to many people. People used music for many different things. Sometimes it was used for entertainment. It was also used in churches. The people were very devoted to church. In church music was a huge aspect. Music was also used throughout everyone's life at some point. It may have been his

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    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Mike
  • Musical Influences

    Musical Influences

    Song Interpretation The song I chose for this paper is Ice Box by Omarion ft. Timbaland. He is a 23-year-old male born Omari Grandberry in Los Angeles California. The Genre of this song is R&B and the Idiom is Soul. To be completely honest I don’t understand a lot of the instruments used in this song because Timbaland (the producer of the song) uses Hip-Hop drum instruments and beat-making machines to make his beats.

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    Essay Length: 955 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 24, 2010 By: Mike

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