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… slaves were allowed to own drums. Voodoo rituals in Congo Square, (The center of Voodoo drumming and dancing in New Orleans), were well attended by the rich and the poor, by blacks and whites. It was in New Orleans, where the bright flash of European…

… those ``Isn't ska some dance form of reggae?'' questions, I present the following historical background to the music we call ska, gleaned from liner notes I have lying about the place, various postings to (news:alt.music.ska), and sundry emailings…

… Davis, from his beginnings as a nineteen-year-old kid in 1945 New York City, to his final days in the early 1990’s, is to be considers one of the jazz’s best. The 1996 album entitled, Bluing: Miles Davis Plays the Blues, the engineers…

… chant tradition of the early Christian era. The monophonic music of chant dominated the middle ages, and included the composition of sequences and tropes. In the high Middle Ages, organum emerged, thus introducing polyphonic textures into liturgical…

… How many people are proud to be citizens of this beautiful country of ours? The stripes and the stars for the rights that men have died for to protect; the women and men who have broke their necks for the freedom of speech the United Stated government…

… a subjective attitude and an objective attitude occur in each separate plane that is being described. The subjective attitude is where everything is taking place in the listeners mind, where as they are unaffected by the world around them. The music…

… music, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born May 7, 1840. He was a composer of the Romantic Period-- a time when music acquired poetic/philosophical meaning. In accordance with this focus on the arts, Tchaikovsky was an extremely well-read and educated…

… boys of Trench Town imitated their slang and some other aspects of Rasta life; they just mimicked what they thought to be cool. The youth rarely imitated their deep religious beliefs or their strict rules. "The Rasta’s were a breed apart, uncompromising…

… in the life and progress of Scott Joplin. This is not merely because Joplin was one of the great ragtime composers. The King of Ragtime experienced many of the elements whose confluence developed into those Euphonic Sounds which were the musical delight…

… with digital technology, but the digital revolution has taken this recording process to a whole new level. Since a multi-tracked recording that has been saved onto a computer disk is nothing more than a computer file, it can easily be moved through…