Essays on Billie

Thanks, God, I had the experience of online threats on the social network only one time. I remember very well what I felt when a stranger with obviously fake profile started to send me offensive messages. I deleted these messages so I do not remember if there were any real threats or just offensive words in those messages. However, I remember exactly that I was scared by messages. Interestingly, it was not a male who offended me on the social network, it was a female. Because I had the negative experience of online threats only one time I was ...

Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald are two prominent divas of jazz. To compare their stage performance is not a simple task. On the one hand, their impressive musical performance differs in that Ella has a unique gift of singing in a range of three octaves. She was using her unbelievable voice like a well-tuned instrument. It was best reflected in her scat singing.

Ella’s the “First Lady of Song” had the utmost success. On the other hand, Billie was known for her tones and nuances that triggered very strong emotions. Unlike Ella, Billie used a far more elastic approach to the words in ...

Jazz is a unique style of music that took development in America during the early 20th century. It made a widespread popularity particularly in the urban areas such as New Orleans, and it served as a social-leveler and unifier. Melding both black and white citizens, Jazz became the basis for social dance music and the provided the early opportunities for public integration (“Jazz”, Encyclopedia.com). The music also helped stir up the national mood particularly during the Depression and the Second World War. The most remarkable period of the development of jazz is during the 1940s and 50s. During those times, social issues ...

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“A man said to the universe: ‘Sir, I exist!’ ‘However,’ replied the universe, ‘The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.’”—Stephen Crane The above quote made by Stephen Crane highlights the personal philosophy which Crane had concerning nature or “the universe,” which may appear at have a certain detachment concerning its relationship with humans. This point is further emphasized by Harold Bloom's introduction in the critical work entitled, Stephen Crane in the following: “[Stephen Crane's] mode wasrenderedwith a meticulous nihilism, a deep sense of the meaninglessness of life except for what could be converted ...

Abstract

The study aims to look at the political and culture conflicts that led to the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The Creek Indians could not escape the long-term effects of the battle. The demise of the great creek nation lead to other changes in the community or region. This was a major battle fought between the United States Army and southwest Oregon Indians during1853-1856. The southern Indian country was transformed into a cotton country. The paper looks at the historical events that led to the battle's commencement. The battle also proved the long tradition of European nations to gather support of the ...

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 ...

This is a short story written in 1897 by an American author known as Stephen Crane. The story is based on the experience of Crane on his survival in a shipwreck while travelling to c Cuba for work. He was a newspapers correspondent. They were stranded for thirty hours in the sea when the ship he was in sank. Crane’s book in a dramatic story of his real life experience, sailing to Cuba and almost sunk with his friend. He was a newspaper corresponded in one of the medias in America. The incident happens when he was on his way to write ...

Out of the Dust is a 1934 historical fiction novel written by Karen Hesse. The setting of the novel is in a struggling farm in Joyce City in Oklahoma. The novel talks of the challenges faced by Billie Jo a 13 year old girl and her family. It tells of Billie’s struggles as she grows up in Oklahoma Dust Bowl during the depression. Billie’s father was a farmer but his crops failed to nourish because of the drought but Billie was determined to make a better life for herself. Billie was a pianist and got a chance to travel around town with other aspiring ...

Strange Fruit song was originally written by a white Jewish teacher named Abel Meeropol in 1937 as a poem. Abel wrote it as an objection against lynching of the blacks (Smith,1944). It was later recorded as a jazz song in 1939 by Billie Holiday. Billie Holiday’s original name was Eleanor Fagan and was born on April 7, 1915. The song has been performed by many artists and translated in many novels, poems as well as many creative works. The Strange Fruit song was listed among the Songs of the Century by the National Endowment of Arts and the Recording Industry ...

In his article, “The Gal Yippers Have No Place In Our Jazz Bands.” (Down Beat 15 October 1939), Ted Toll is at pains to point out that a good jazz vocalist should not be simply based exclusively on the sex. He is scathing of women due to the fact that he believes they are too artificial and this perhaps reflects the attitude which was prevalent in the time regarding women – one has to remember that this was 1939 and women were treated as quite less than important in those days. However the main thrust of Toll’s article seems ...

Ted opens his article by reminding readers that there is already proliferation of good jazz than the public can consume. He calls this scenario the ‘abundance of the right stuff’. This opening remark is supposedly meant to convince a reader that jazz is not in any way in disarray that a knee-jerk experimentation is necessary. It serves as a foundation to his scathing article about the increasing involvement of lovely women in the business. He begins right away by a reference to a hypothetical humorous wince of the boys at the sound of a ‘young lovelies chirp’. But it doesn’t stop there, Ted talks ...

Women have made immense contributions in the development of man throughout history more than it is acknowledged. It is vital to appreciate their accomplishments despite the challenges they faced. Historical literature has always been written subjectively making it hard to trace accomplishments of significant women. The search for women in jazz prior to 1945 is not an exception. The search is a painful experience but worth its reward. The history and development of jazz music has been attributed to a significant extent to men. Most texts name Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong as the pioneers of jazz music. However, this paper ...

The petitioner in this case, Sherry Burt, a Warden at a Michigan correctional facility moved to the Supreme Court challenging the decision of the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and seeking a writ of certiorari against the decision. The matters that came up for consideration at the Supreme Court involved weighty constitutional issues namely whether the Sixth Circuit gave an appropriate deference to the state trial court decision in Michigan as enshrined in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. The second constitutional issue that was subject to determination by the court in this case related to the ...

Analysis: Out of the Dust

Abstract Karen Hesse's book Out of the Dust takes an unconventional approach to fiction, depicting the events of a full-length novel in a number of free verse poems. The tale of a family of farmers attempting to survive the Dust Bowl, Hesse's work is fascinating in its minimalism and heartbreaking in its focus. Hesse's free verse prose lends a childlike sense of simplicity and wonder to these heavy themes, showing just how dramatic these conditions can affect a child of that age; the result is an intelligent and thoughtful book on life in the Dust Bowl. Karen Hesse's book Out of the ...

Introduction

Michael Jackson is one of the world’s most famous singers and artist. Starting off as an ordinary American recording artist, he had a couple of breaks. He was later on discovered as the world’s King of Pop because of the genre of songs he usually composed in his music albums. His fans often refer Michael Jackson as MJ. Jackson did not become famous just because he has a relatively good or unique singing voice. His unique and usually hard-to-copy dance moves were actually equally contributory to his success as an entertainer, a recording artist, and even a businessperson. This man certainly ...

Introduction

Michael Jackson is one of the world’s most famous singer and artist. Starting off as an ordinary American recording artist, he had a couple of breaks. He was later on discovered as the world’s King of Pop because of the types of songs he usually includes in his music albums. Michael Jackson is often referred to by his fans MJ. Jackson did not become famous just because he has a relatively good or unique singing voice. His unique and usually hard-to-copy dance moves were actually equally contributory to his success as an entertainer, a recording artist, and even a businessman. ...

1. While I can most certainly understand the reservations that some people might have regarding the use of women's sexuality in sports to further the "male gaze," these options should not be stripped from women solely because it may make others nervous. Furthermore, given the right context and the right material, these opportunities might be a way for female athletes to express a healthy form of sexuality and gain ownership over their bodies. In the case of the Canadian women's biathlon team who released the nude calendar, it does not seem as though the team itself were forced into it - ...

Education is the process of gaining information and adding value to one self. Education relates to acquiring skills, succeeding in academics and discipline. The learning process starts once a person is born. An individual starts to learn from the environment and especially the people around them specifically the parents (Margeret, 36). Education is important in that it helps an individual to gain knowledge that can help in ensuring success in life. Many people define education is terms of academics only which is wrong. This research paper will discuss the essay by Lillian smith ‘when I was a child’ in relation to ...