Glenn Miller In WWII

The Harlem Renaissance was a burst on African American’s expression of culture, arts, and writings throughout the 1920’s. It was in Harlem, New York, the movement allowed many African American poets, painters, musicians, authors and philosophers to express the beliefs in their people's culture. They wanted to be equal to white people so they showed that through their talents. Louis Armstrong was a key asset to the Harlem Renaissance due to his inspiring music and playing his instruments for African Americans people during this period.

As Bruce Springsteen once said, “Rock and Roll, man, it changed my life” (Frankl 22). Well said Mr. Springsteen. Music can indeed change a person’s life. Along his journey, Bruce went from zero to hero. Bruce Springsteen was a very rebellious man and was famous for his Rock and Roll music. Bruce Springsteen went through many hardships when he was a child on through his journey to being a successful Rock and Roll artist.

The reading “Popular music and the civil war” explained the heavy influence that music had leading up to and during the civil war. Music was used to express the way Americans, those in the north or south, were feeling during this time. Through their lyrics, writers and singers were able to convey their feelings on topics such as being separated from loved ones, losing someone, patriotism for the confederates or the union, and anything else that related to war time. Many of these songs appealed to the Americans because they could easily relate to what the lyrics were saying. Therefore, songs were being greatly produced during this time because people were purchasing the music, whether that was by going to see the performance of it, or buying

Jazz is most often thought to have been started in the 1920s as this explosive movement, but that is in fact not the case. Starting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century many African American musicians have started to explore their taste in improvising, and where better to do that than New Orleans (Anderson). Before the 1920s these jazz musicians have already been going around sharing the unique sound, but up until then, jazz had remained majorly in New Orleans. Interestingly during this period, a common jazz band would consist of a cornet, a clarinet, a trombone, and a rhythm section when at this period of time the clarinet is not commonly associated with being a jazz instrument, it moved into being the saxophone rather. A big

The Cold War was a time in history when there was a great political and military turmoil between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War shaped the world in these three ways, women’s rights, society,Cultural. These three changed people in positive and negative ways.

Duke Ellington had a successful career and musicians and jazz fans all around the world. Whenever musicians young or old bring up jazz music in a discussion, jazz fan or classicist in any part of the world the name Duke Ellington is mentioned. Starting young after maturing he had a lot of memorable events throughout his life. Duke Ellington had a big impact on music during his time. He is considered by many to be the most brilliant Jazz composers in American history.

During the Great Depression, many theaters started falling apart due to financial issues. Right then the federal theater project was created to help small theaters that were suffering from these financial issues. It was also created to bring back life to large theaters who couldn 't afford the needs to maintain a theater. The way that the this federal theater project helped was the government takes over your theater and maintains it but the catch is that you don 't have any control over it. For example “as the depression worsened, theatrical unions became unable to care for their own members” ( text 1, lines 15-17). This shows that the reason why the federal theater project was created. The federal theater was not successful for many

Al Jolson, one of the greatest entertainers to bring a symphony of jazz which expresses love and peace to society. To comprehend, Al Jolson’s music can be heard all over the theaters of Washington D.C. and New York City.

Music played a very important role in the Civil War. In the case of the Confederacy, it helped the new country create the sense of national identity and unity. From inspiring supporters to initiating marches, music was commonplace, and significant in raising people’s spirits. One way music was used in the civil war was to start a march. Instruments like bugles, drums, fifes, and others were played to issue marching orders or to just boost the morale of the soldiers. The band’s main duty was to help rally the men before and after battles, but were sometimes used to give signals and commands in battle. Drummers were relied on to play drum beats to call the soldiers into formation and for other events. Drums were used to signal troops to maneuver

Edward Lowe was born in Saint Paul Minnesota in July 10th 1920 Lowe was a man of many things. Even Lowe lived a normal live prior to his big success. Most lives are lived going to local school and graduating high school, getting a job to provide for your family and live in average life. Lowe served and the US Navy during World War one. Edward Lowe where attended high school at Ross Beatty Junior Senior High School. After his service in the United States Navy he joined his father in the sawdust business at the age of 27. This job would be the start to his very famous and effective invention. He found his wife and got married to her and had four children and six grandchildren. His typical life transitioned into a multi millionaire businessman

Are you ready to experience Jimi Hendrix? Recognized as the single most famous to ever come up from the Pacific Northwest’s music scene. Jimi came from very humble beginnings, but he made himself be known as arguably the most gifted and inventive guitarist of all time. He would be recognized around the world as a major force in the twentieth century music industry. I will inform you on how Jimi began his music career, how he elevated himself to the top of the Rock n’ Roll charts, and his downfall from it all.

Arthur Miller was born on October 17, 1915 in Harlem, New York and died February 10,

Adaptive leadership is the drive to find ways to approach complex situations. Adaptive leaders are able to create cultural norms, great plans and expectations that cause positive transformation to occur. One of the greatest United States leaders that I found to uphold these traits would be General George S. Patton, reason being he was able to create new ideas that were able to drive incredible outcomes in a crucial time.

Reginald Wayne Miller was born on September 25, 1965, in Riverside, California. Reggie was born with hip deformities, so he had to wear leg braces and walk with crutches and sit on a wheelchair to get around. However his braces were able to come off and he would spend time with his older sister Cheryl who is one of his siblings, he also has an older brother Darrell and a little brother Saul Jr. Both of his siblings are very athletic, but he would mostly

"Satchmo," "Pops," and "Ambassador Satch" were names for an outstanding jazz artist that inspired many. He was one of the most important musicians in jazz. He helped to transform the traditional New Orleans style into a completely different form of jazz. Louis Daniel Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana in a very poor neighborhood. His father, a laborer, abandoned the family when he was young, and his mother was an irresponsible single parent. She left Armstrong and his sister in the care of their grandmother(Source C). Armstrong was taken out of school in fifth grade to begin working. On New Year's Eve in 1912, Armstrong fired his stepfather's gun in the air during a celebration and was arrested. He was then sent