Band Research Papers Samples For Students

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Miles Davis is vital figure in the 1950s music as he drew together different trends in hard bop and cool jazz. His career travelled from cool jazz and bebop into the heroin addiction since his return at the 1954 caused the shifting to hard bop. Miles emerged a hero of jazz because of the magnificent change that he brought to jazz. From 1949 to 1969, he changed the rules of jazz five timers. Just as Coltrane, Miles’ organized a continuous music growing group that their music styles and concepts were very dynamic for the better.
The two artists are considered ...

- Linear and Non-linear devices
A linear electrical component is an electrical element that has a linear relationship between current and voltage in a circuit. Examples include resistors, capacitors and inductors.
Non-linear electrical elements do not have a linear relationship between the current and voltage. An example is a diode where the current is a non-linear function of the voltage.
The load line analysis is a graphical analysis of the characteristics of non-linear electronic circuits to show the constraints that is placed on the non-linear devices by the rest of the circuit.
Using a simple diode (a non-linear electronic device) to explain the ...

The life of all the contemporary guitarists that started playing after 1980s was closely connected with the creation of grunge music and the “Nirvana”, in particular, as every guitarist had been learning the “Smells like Teen Spirit” as his first song on guitar during that time. The main goal of this paper is to discuss the genre of the band itself, the other characteristics of the genre that were used by different musicians of the time and after this period; the roots of the genre will be discussed there.
The musical style of Nirvana was best described by ...

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The research paper describes the genre of K-Pop with its main musical and visual characteristics, the main facts from its history from the moment of its foundation in 1990s and to its commercial popularity by the middle of 2000s. The Top K-Pop performers and their creation described and analyzed here as the examples of the provided reasons why the genre becomes more popular nowadays outside the Korean borders. The author concludes that K-Pop is the main competitor for the American Pop stage in gaining its popularity on the World stage, and it has enough potential to become the main ...

Zydeco music originated in Southwest Louisiana and it was pioneered by the French Creole speakers. The music blends R&B, Blues and Cajun music. The songs are a reflection of the rural beginnings and the prevailing economic conditions that are reflected in the song titles, bluesy vocals and lyrics of Zydeco. The music developed as a synthesis of ancient Creole music, Afro-America traditions, Cajun music, Jazz, gospel, blues and R&B. The music was often called French music and the first recording was made in 1928. It was the Creole music that formed the foundation for the music that was later to be ...

THROUGHOUT THE DECADES

Relationship of Music Throughout the Decades
Throughout the decades, music has seen a lot of changes. One thing that stayed the same is Rock. It was popular from the 60s all throughout the 2010s (Cox & Warner, 2004). It was the only genre to survive all five decades, and has constantly been reinvented. Many different artists saw their rise and fall throughout the decades; many have also made their comebacks in the 2000s. There are a couple of key artists that have made their name prominent in music history, changing the way people heard music (Cullen, 2001). The important eras were ...

Introduction

Festivals are becoming more popular in the United Kingdom unlike a few years ago. With the increase in the number of visitors in the United Kingdom, it is becoming apparent that there is need to ensure that there is better management of visitors in these festivals. It will not only help in the management of the visitors, but will also create efficiency and better control of the process. This paper will focus on developing a new technology that will be used in the management and control of festival visitors. It is hard to keep track of the visitors and integrate the ...

The onset of jazz music was a luxurious and monumental thing for New Orleanians. Though music was essential to life in New Orleans throughout the nineteenth century, no sound that welcomed everybody. New Orleans was a diverse place where Creole, French, Spanish, and African cultures, among others, all lived elbow to elbow, with seemingly nothing in common other than a love for music. During the 1870’s could be heard everywhere. New Orleans was filled with the folky sounds inspired by European immigrants, and the distinct beats of African and Caribbean inspired musicians. As the turn of the century approached, these two ...

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In 2007, it was announced that one of the popular songs of singer Bob Dylan was about to be remixed. It came across as a shock to rock’n roll fans worldwide who considered this remix idea as if someone is trying to draw a moustache on Leonardo DaVinci’s famous Mona Lisa portrait. The song to be remixed was, “Most Likely You Go Your Way” and a new video was to be released for the remix that was directed by Rupert Jones. For this purpose, hundreds of Bob Dylan look-alikes ...

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The Group Theatre can be considered as the most important and momentous experiment in the American theater’s history. It produced plays that were directly influenced by the relevant issues of that time and gave a creative opportunity to performers, directors, and dramatists/writers who were either dejected with or excluded from the commercial theater. It is important to mention here that although the Group Theatre only had a brief life of ten years; it is still continuing to have an everlasting and undeviating effect on the drama in the United States of America. It was introduced at a ...

It`s not really often we can find the band with so diverse and strange music and with so interesting and outstanding history as well. The King Crimson is one of the least that can surely be classified to such kind of bands.
Being created on the 30th of November 1968 the band was first rehearsed on the 13th of January 1969 in London with the first band`s line-up: Robert Fripp, who was the guitarist of the band, Greg Lake, the bassist and the vocalist, Michael Giles was the band`s drummer, Ian McDonald, playing the woodwinds ...

Difference between Matchbox 20 Albums and Rob Thomas

Thesis
Rob Thomas, a lead singer and songwriter of Matchbox 20, sang a few solo songs of which, one was rated among the Top 10 hits and, his effort was recognized when he was ranked No.5 among a cluster of celebrity singers on Billboard’s Top 20 list of Hot 100 songwriters between 2010-2011. Was Rob the reason for Matchbox 20 becoming so successful in the 2000s, or was it Matchbox 20 that helped push Rob Thomas’ popularity as an exceptional music talent?
“It’s been 10 years since the multi-platinum selling band Matchbox Twenty which included Rob Thomas, Paul ...

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The latest GOES series was launched on 23rd July 2001 but attained geostationary orbit on 12th August 2001, therefore name as GOES-12. The imager had advanced features comparing with the previous ones. The imager had a spectral band centered at 13.3 m that eliminated 12 m, 6.5 m modified band with a spatial resolution improved from 8 km to 4 km at the sub-satellite point. This improvements that were made on GOES-12 improved several satellite products like satellite-derived wind fields and cloud properties. These products are capable of utilizing the data that is produced by 12 m band ...

Describe how bebop developed, became the major modern movement in jazz around the time of the decline of big bands, and how bebop fragmented into the styles of cool and hard bop. Provide your opinion as to what role African-American innovation, in reaction to mainstream tastes in the U.S., played in these developments, if at all. Use specific examples of major figures and stylistic developments.

Bebop – an introduction

Bepop began as a style of jazz which had a fast tempo and improvisation as its main facets and began to surface in the early years of the Second World War. This period of style was ...

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Harlem Renaissance is one of the most prominent artistic trends of 20th century American history that affected music, art and literature to an extent of changing the American cultural setting. This period describes a revolution in 1920s in which African American musicians, artists, writers and philosophers attempted to promote the black culture and heritage within the American community. A trend that inclined towards a more political aggressiveness and self-confident perspective of identity and racial delight prompted the establishment of the idea of the ‘new negro’, essentially popularized by Alain Locke. The 1920s witnessed a progressive migration of the African Americans from the ...

Introduction to antennas

Traditionally, people had problem with communication especially where it involved long distances. Wireless communication began in 1901, when Marconi received the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean. From that period, technology kept on advancing until the development of the present day antennas. Antennas form the basic components of any communication system that changes energy from one form into another. A receiving antenna changes electromagnetic energy into electric or magnetic energy. They work through transmitting RF signal that travels on a conductor into an electromagnetic wave in free space. An antenna maintains the same characteristic regardless of whether in use ...

Introduction

This document illustrates in detail on Fela who was born in Nigeria and at the age of 20 years, he was sent to London to study medicine. Instead of doing what he was sent to do, he opted to venture into music whereby he formed a band called Koola Lobitos which played a fusion of jazz and high life. The document illustrates in detail on how Fela performed his music and what impact it had on the people (Manuel, 2007, 56). In addition, it entails that he was a multi-instrumental musician and composer, which made him a pioneer of Afrobeat music, and a human ...

Steel drums or what we called Steel Pan were originally created on the island of Caribbean, Trinidad in year 1930s.However, Steel Pan’s history can be traced back to the confined Africans who were brought to the islands during the 1700s (Steelpan-steeldrums-information.com par. 1). They had taken with them components of their Africa lifestyle such as the enjoying of hand percussion. 2). Hand drums are percussion at Africa called Membranophones. These drums became the main percussion gadgets in the yearly Trinidadian event festivities.
In year 1877, the judgment English Government prohibited the playing of percussion in an effort ...

This is a review of Maroon 5 concert on March 13th 2013 in San Jose. Maroon 5 is a multi-talented American pop rock band. The group is made up of five band members. These include Adam Levine, who is the lead singer, James Valentine, the lead guitarist, Mickey Madden, Jesse Carmichael and Matt Flynn. The group mainly uses a guitar and a piano in their performances. They sing emotional love songs that not only have romantic themes, but also express love frustration and disappointments. During their concert at San Jose, the band showcased a lot of impressive planning. They formed an M-shaped stage emerging ...

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Military music has always been an important part of any army but today’s changes in the science of battle have relegated the role of the musical band very much into the background.
Can one imagine the changes which have been wrought by shock and awe campaigns and how this lightning quick battle scenario has changed everything with regards to military music?
In today’s day and age, the military band is nothing more than a showpiece as everything has changed in battle. Gone are the days when such situations such as The Charge of the Light Brigade ...

Jazz can is the classical music of the Americas. New Orleans is the city considered the birthplace of jazz. The history of slavery holds the clues to why jazz became so popular in New Orleans and later became loved around the world. Slaves were given very strict rules to remind them that they were no longer in Africa. They were forbidden to do anything that might seem to be a an African tradition. The masters of slaves did not allow dancing if the step was done by crossing one leg in front of the other. Things like singing and using ...

The history of the fusion of American and European popular music can be traced back to the first half of the 1960s when British musicians started to actively conquer the U.S. audience. However, before dwelling on such phenomena as Beatlemania and the British Invasion, as well as the entire congruence of European and American traditions, it is important to analyze the nature rock music and other genres that appeared popular during those times. Rock music is a common title of a number of music trends that emerged in the 1950s. With that, rock is not merely music, but rather ...

Mayday

Mayday is a Taiwanese rock band that was created in the late 1990s. The name of the band in Chinese is 五月天 (pinyin: Wǔ Yuè Tiān). The band consists of five members: Ashin, a vocalist, Monster and Stone, guitarists, Masa, a bassist, and Guan You, a drummer. The previous name of e band was So Band, they became Mayday only in 1997. The present name originates from Masa’s nickname in the Internet (Baidu.com).

Ashin, the vocalist, whose real name is Chen Ashin Hung, was born on the 6th of December, 1975, in Taipei, Taiwan.
Monster, one the guitarists ...

Cognitive radio means an intelligent and adaptive radio that knows its environment. Cognitive radio technology is a solution used to enhance utilization of spectrum enabling the users that are not licensed to exploit in an opportunistic way. Unlicensed users are considered as temporary on the spectrum that is licensed, and once a licensed user reclaims it they are expected to vacate. As a result of licensed users reclaiming the spectrum, there are disruptions in both unlicensed and licensed communications that are always difficult to prevent. To address these problems, a spectrum handoff structure is proposed for cognitive technology to ...

I am interested in this selection due to the investigative nature of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures. This story is about a case that Sherlock Holmes handled and how he incorporated the services of his friend Watson. This case was investigated in an old home building that had a crime committed. Holmes’s partner Watson describes the nature of the cases they have handled. He explained that Holmes wanted to do his job as an art as a first priority than acquire wealth first.
This story is a narration by Watson about his experience with his partner Holmes in trying to solve several ...

Essay on Pink Floyd’s Meddle

Pink Floyd, one of the most popular and progressive rock music groups in the history of music, achieved its popularity because of the psychedelic musical pieces they created. The characteristics of Pink Floyd music are the meaningful lyrics, experimentation with sound and the wonderful live shows they conducted. Meddle is the sixth album by the group, and released in the year 1971. It gained immense popularity, and is in fact, one of the most popular music albums ever. Etched in the minds of the listeners, Meddle has a quality of experimenting with various sounds and creating a new effect altogether. The ...

Did Beatle­-Mania’s influence on Soviet teenagers contribute to the fall of the Iron Curtain? An argument can be made that Gorbachev’s opening up to the West through glasnost and perestroika was the final nail in the coffin of the Soviet Union. However, due to the overwhelming evidence of an underground musical movement amongst the Soviet youth, the demands of a disillusioned youth were the catalysts for these reforms. With this taken into consideration, a major change in the political landscape of Russia’s domestic and foreign policy may be observed through three stages, initial distribution, Soviet push back, ...

The Mbuti, commonly known as the Bambuti people is one of the many pygmy groups of people living in the Ituri rain forest in Congo region of central Africa. This group of indigenous people is one of the native communities in Congo region who have preserved their cultural and social practices for a long time. They are known for their active foraging lifestyle that is characterized by hunting and gathering wild fruits, roots and vegetables as their main source of food as well as their inhabitant which is the tropical rain forest where they live in small villages known as ...

A brake is a device that produces artificial resistance to the moving part of a machine to stop or slow down its motion. Any machine or its part that is in motion possesses kinetic energy. As per physical laws, energy cannot be destroyed; its form can only be transformed. The brake system converts the kinetic energy of the moving machine or part into thermal, potential or chemical energy. Brake systems are of various types utilized in different applications in industries, home appliances, vehicles, railway trains, and other sectors. This paper has focused on the brake systems used in vehicles, ...

Abstract

The project deals with the problem of females’ participation in street gangs, more specifically, the reasons and the roles assumed by them in these criminal groups. Structure and classifications of street bands both in the USA and abroad have been given a particular focus of attention. The research is based on the opinions of key subject field experts, such as jurisprudents, psychologists, and sociologists recorded in psychology and legal journals, as well as topic-related newspaper and journal articles.
Key words: street gangs, women, mobsters, criminal, drugs, initiation
As strange as it may sound, women involvement in organized crime ...

INTRODUTION

Catechol-O-methyl transferase (COMT) is an enzyme that plays a significant role in the metabolism of dopamine (DA) and amounts to approximately 60% or more of DA breakdown in the frontal cortex . The gene expressing the COMT enzyme could affect cognition and functioning of the brain via its action on dopaminergic function. A polymorphic variation occurs in the coding area of the COMT gene (a Guanine to Adenine replacement), changing the amino acid from valine (Val) to methionine (Met) at the codon position 158 (Val158Met) and consequently influencing the thermal tolerance and stability of the enzyme. Allelic discrepancies in enzyme ...

Rock and roll is one of the most important genres in the history of modern music. The signature guitar styles, drum rhythms, and powerful electric sound allowed this genre to singlehandedly change the way that music was created, presented, and performed. Rock and roll techniques and styles are present in almost every single genre on the radio today, and the traditional rhythms helped to form the basis for other styles of music. Bo Diddley was a rock and blues legend who was so intriguing that he spent over 60 years on the road playing his songs. Born in Mississippi, ...

Position Paper on Thinking about Music, and Social Change

Wind of Change
I follow the Moskva

Down to Gorky Park

Listening to the wind of change
An August summer night
Soldiers passing by
Listening to the wind of change

The world is closing in

Did you ever think

That we could be so close, like brothers

The future's in the air
I can feel it everywhere

Blowing with the wind of change

Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
in the wind of change

Walking down the street

Distant memories
Are buried in the past forever
I follow the Moskva
Down to Gorky Park
Listening to the wind of change
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night

Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams

With ...

Introduction

The Hawaiian Renaissance refers to the rise in popularity of Hawaiian music. When we talk about Hawaiian music, the music of prominent artists such as “The Cazimero Brothers” and the “Sons of Hawaii” come to mind. In the succeeding discussion, our main goal is to frame and understand Hawaiian music based on the work of a single artist. To narrow down the scope of research, the discussion will focus on “Olomana”, originally the musical duo of Robert Beaumont and Jerry Santos, which later on became a four-man band (Seida, n.d.). The discussion explores Olomana’s style, the message in their songs, ...

Jazz is one of the most popular genres of music that has been entertaining people for a long time. Jazz is believed to be originated in last years of nineteenth century in different parts of the United States of America. Jazz emerged due to rich ancestral and artistic fondness of African American community. African Americans have been practicing various types of music in their traditional ceremonies and jazz is the modern, experimental and organized version of their fond for the music. Storyville of New Orleans sheltered jazz music where jazz witnessed new heights. This paper intends to discuss jazz music ...

Reggae music was born on the island of Jamaica in the late 1960s. It is a fairly recent music genre that has roots in mento, R&B and Ska music that were contemporary musical movements. Recorded music was relatively late in coming to Jamaica with the first recording studio opening in 1951 and recording “mento” music which was a fusion of European and African folk dance music. American R&B music also became widely available around that time. The genre of Reggae may have langered in obscurity and never achieved international status and recognition had it not been for it’s most iconic ...

Introduction

Since the sinking of one of White Stars Line’s most famous luxury ship, 100 years ago, there have been many films, books, speculations and myths about the Titanic’s tragic maiden voyage which cost the lives of over 1,500 people including women and children. The reasons of why the infamous ship sank is varies, some being factual accurate, others hypothesis that made sense and some that are just plain stories that have no place in history or science. These stories are what this paper will look at; claims that cannot be supported by scientific evidence, myths propagated ...

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The purpose of this experiment was two-fold. Firstly it was to synthesize shape-controllable Copper Oxide (Cu2O) under alkaline conditions by using hydrothermal methodology. Secondly it was to measure and evaluate its application for photocatalytic degradation of direct blue dye 53 also commonly known as Direct Blue 53 or Evans Blue. Materials used for the first step were Cu2O and the two reactants, CuCl2.2H2O and NaOH. The temperature during the hydrothermal process was raised from 80°C to 140°C. Two products were synthesized: a) the Cu2O nanorod and b) a mixture of Cu2O nanorod and Cu2O nanocubes.

Hydrothermal temperature was found to ...

Introduction

Companies and individuals with profound passion in creating and selling music in different part of the world or even in its own country have a great opportunity. These companies are the music industry or music business who makes money abundantly out of their talents, ambitions, and resources. There are various types of organizations operating in music industry and there are individuals who engage in music ventures. The individuals who belong in the music industry are the musicians, composers, performers, music publishers, engineers, producers, educators, journalists, business managers, talent managers, entertainment legal representatives, booking agents, road crew, and promoters of music ...

A saxophone, also referred to as the sax, is a musical instrument that belongs to the woodwind family. Mostly, they are made of brass and are played by the mouth. Adolph Sax, from Belgium, was the founder of the saxophone, and he came up with this instrument in the year 1840. The saxophones were made of different series and the most popular one today was meant to be used by the military band. Apart from being used in military bands, saxophones are mostly used in classical and jazz genres of music. People who play the saxophone are referred to as ...

The cellular network is a wireless network spread over large land areas called cells. Each of this cell is served by at least one base station. These cells use another set of frequencies from that of the neighboring cells so to provide guaranteed bandwidth and avoid interference. When these cells are joined together, they provide radio coverage and connect large geographic area. Thus, portable transceivers i.e. mobile phones and pagers can communicate with each other, being anywhere in the network. There are 3 main categories of cellular networks, including 2G, 3G, and 4G.
The first ever cellular network was ...

Wireless communication refers to transmission of data or signals via electromagnetic waves. In other words, it is a form of communication that does not involve the use of wires. Instead, radio and microwaves are used to transfer data or signal from one device to another. The first wireless transmission system was developed in early 20th century. This system used Morse code which was a combination of dots and dashes or long and short electric signals assigned to each letter of the English alphabet. The signals were sent and received via wires. This enabled transmission of text based information over a long distance. ...

Introduction

ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) is a modem technology that is available channel bandwidth is shared between the outgoing and incoming traffic is asymmetric. Since most users have incoming traffic volume is much higher than the volume of outgoing, the rate of outgoing traffic is significantly lower. This restriction was uncomfortable with the spread of peer-to-peer networks and video.

History of development

History of the development of ADSL technology started in the second half of the eighties, when were searching technology for interactive television. Pioneer family of technologies xDSL is a company Bellcore; in 1987, it introduced the first specification of a family of technologies ...

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The characteristic that differentiates bootleggers and music downloaders is that the former usually acknowledge their practices as violations of the laws and regulation regarding the copyright and try hard not to be detected. Generally, these collectors of bootlegged material “recognize their own activities as breaking copyright laws or carrying social connotations of deviance” (Wiest, 2007). Thus, bootlegging is an activity that is more prevalent under the ground and is commonly done in record shops located back street (Wiest, 2007).
Bootlegging on the Internet is increasing day by day and this practice ...

Traumatizing, disruptive, transformative – all of these words can be used to describe the First World War, an event of fateful proportions that swirled the troops of the Allied and Central Powers all across the old continent in an unfortunate search for victory. It was an event that crushed the naïve and proud courage of young men who threw themselves honorably into belligerent waters for the sake of their countries, only to find depressing, muddy trenches instead. The legacy of the Great War lay far away from the pedestal of glorious victories; instead, it succumbed into the pressing reality ...

Sociology refers to the study of people living in groups as well as any other form of social formation that has been organized in a systematic manner. According to the Complete A-Z Sociology handbook, sociology as a study provides a clear picture into the functioning of society. The study focuses on the human social life and the mannerisms of humans in groups. The study also focuses on the rules that govern these social set ups which are factors that bind and separate the humans at both the individual level as well as at a global level (Johnson, p.15, 1966).

Sociological imagination is a fundamental ...

Vivendi SA

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Introduction

Vivendi SA is an integrated media group that operates throughout its value chain and is focused of expanding its business in order to provide unlimited means of entertainment to its customers. The company owns the leading subsidiary businesses like Universal Music Group, Canal+ Group, Gameloft, Ubisoft, Daily motion and Radionomy. The current paper aims to conduct the Resource Based View Analysis, Value Chain Analysis and Core Competency Analysis in order enlighten the resources, efficient work processes and market standing of the company.

Tangible Resources
Financial
The Net Cash Position of Vivendi SA indicates that the company has ...

Hey Jude: Protective Love and Psycho-cultural Aspects

“Hey Jude”, the iconic song that was written by Paul McCartney from July 29 to July 30, 1968 (Loker 62) of the legendary British all-male band, The Beatles, is a piece of popular music that is worth praise and amazement. Forty-eight years have passed and still the music world seems not to have fully recovered from the hysteria caused by this song, and that famous singers of the present age still pay tribute to the band and the song despite of the passing of time, so much so that it still has a strong influence on the young generation ...

Photography may seem like just clicking pictures of anything and everything. And that is exactly what the lay man perceives it to be. However what photography really is; is quite deep when one ponders the notion. Photography if were to be termed in one word, that word would be vision. We can label it as vision, or seeing or simply imagination, they all point towards the same thing, which is making a perception and mental image in your mind’s eye, then using your tool at hand (camera) to give that image a shape in a picture. Some people ...

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There are many forms of optics that occur in the sky at different times. Some of the optics are more common and can be observed at almost any time while others are extremely rare. This paper examines atmospheric optics and how they relate to various phenomena that are observed in the skies. The article covers scattering of light, sky and cloud coloration as well as their causes. Additionally, it addresses the halo effect, the incidence of glory, rainbows and how they are formed, the Mirage and its various forms and crepuscular rays. Atmospheric optics is useful in many fields ...

The future of wireless modems

Introduction
Broadband modems allow mobile devices and personal computers to receive internet access. The connection is made possible through mobile broadband technology. It is a simply way of connecting to the internet because there are no cable television lines or telephone lines involved. One can connect their mobile devices and laptops to the internet at almost any location within the reach of wireless signals (Park & Rappaport, 2007). Wireless modems have evolved with the network generation of mobile phones. 1-G modems existed but had very slow dial up connections. Their connection speed could only reach up to 2.4-kilo bytes in a ...

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Wireless networking involves connecting network nodes using wireless data connections in the network. Wireless networking enables people to save on the costs they would have incurred in bringing in cable to their houses or offices. Some wireless networks include terrestrial microwave networks, Wi-Fi local networks, and cell phone networks. Examples of wireless methods include TDMA, PTP, and PTMP. This research paper looks into TDMA, PTP, and PTMP. It also looks at other elements involved in the wireless network such as 2.4 GHz, 5GHZ, and Fresnel Zone.

Introduction

Wireless networking involves connecting network nodes using wireless data connections in the network. ...

Introduction

Baroque opera involves two distinguished characteristics which can be acquired by its name. This includes baroque which can be described as an era in the history of art in Europe between the 1600 and 1750 years. This era was after the Renaissance period and was later followed Classical era thus marking the initial years in evolution of opera. An opera in a large scale drama characterized by instruments and delivered to the audience through singing, poetry and drama. The dramatically part of the opera involves poetry, captivating action and pantomime, different scenes and costumes. This combination offers a unified element thus ...

1. One of the most important events from the American history that had also an impact in the popular music was the war for the civil rights who was led by Martin Luther King.
2. The second event was Woostock.
3. The perception of black people music change from the earliest style in the nineteen century by getting under its umbrella a large range of musical genres like ragtime, jazz, blues, doo-wop, rock and roll, hip-hop, soul ,dance and techno.
4. The Ed Sullivan Show was an American TV variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan and the ...

- Memphis is the home of the music genre rock n roll. An example to support this is the observation one of the genre pioneers came from the place. He grew up there and requested bar owners to let him in their clubs so that he could listen to their music.
- Sam Phillips was behind the sun Records. The studio gave the people a platform to air their view and oppression through the music. The studio did not discriminate and thus was a voice of the minority and civil rights.
- A. the musical style of Elvis Presley ...

Angola’s Musical Background

The history in the development of different music genre in Algeria can be categorized into two periods namely; the colonial period and the post-colonial period. During the colonial period, the music in the country flourished within its borders with little success in gaining international acclaim especially when compared to music from its neighboring countries such as South Africa. The local language Kimbundu formed the focus of the musical tunes although other artists sang songs in the colonizer’s language-Portuguese (Bram 28).
However, favor soon fell on the country with development of local tastes in music grew and bands ...

Introduction

When we think of blues songs, we relate them to misfortunes, break ups or other bad events. This is because blues is known to have originated from a bad period. Delta blues or Mississippi delta blues is a musical form that emerged in early 20th century in Mississippi. However, this music originates from Africa since slaves were captured from Africa and forced to work in plantations in the South. Slaves used music as a way of escape from the torture and oppression they faced. Slaves would sing to their favorite delta blues as they work in the plantations. Slavery and religion seem ...

Introduction

Popular culture is defined as the wide-ranging perspectives, attitudes, ideas, images and several other phenomena within the mainstream or rather scope of a given culture particularly the western culture (Storey 4). Subsequent to the industrial revolution, people had a lot of free time and this prompted the emergence of entertainment customs that include the mass media, additionally, this impelled advertisements ensuing the high supply and demand of goods, this in essence is perceived to have fuelled the emergence of pop culture (Fedorak 50). In history, pop culture and particularly pop music has been influential in a number of ways, additionally, pop culture ...

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The Caribbean and the Latin America have a rich musical heritage ranging from classical and classical-influenced styles, folk traditional music and the modern popular music. It has different countries and regions such as Jamaica, Brazil, Peru, Haiti, Virgin Islands among others. The vastness of the involved area and ethnic collection makes the music from the region the most efficiently discussed and since it is acculturated. This paper seeks to explore a descriptive analysis of Tango and Nuevo Tango of Astor Piazzolla, Brazilian Bossa Nova Movement and Afro-Cuban Music from different orchestras such as Machito, O’Farrill styles among others. In addition, ...

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The life and work of Ray Charles and Bob Marley are scrutinized in this essay with the intend to demonstrate why and when they became icons of their time. Being two of the most accomplished artists in history, the soulman and the ambassador of the reggae music represent nowaday much more than just a hero for their fans or the textbook references for their genres, but rather examples of how a person can be turned into a hero by their own talent. The comparison made in this contemplates the drawing of a parallel between these two completely different ways of life that made ...