Louis Armstrong
Essays

In America, music has a tremendous influence on culture. Part of the reason for this, is because it has the ability to transcend racial and political lines. As the artists, the songs and the ideals that they represent…

Black Entertainment and Sports Institutions/Organizations in Atlanta, GA 1865 – 2012 During Harlem's renaissance, Atlanta was often called "the Harlem of the South" due to its rich heritage, particularly in the area of music. Famous artists such as Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Jackie Wilson, Dina Washington, and Billie Holiday regularly performed in Atlanta's many exclusively-black clubs. Accommodating many tastes in music, the clubs featured minstrel, ragtime, vaudeville, blues, jazz, classical, rhythm and blues, and soul. Atlanta's influence is not merely limited to music, however; with the third largest black population among American cities, Atlanta has proven itself to be a bastion of opportunities for African Americans in the areas of higher education, sports and all types of artistic expression.

Richard N. Albert's "The Jazz-Blues Motif in James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'"

Benny Goodman's Disciplined and Multi-Faceted Musical Style

Jazz is a complex and challenging for of music. The genre is also one of the most diverse, making it important to distinguish between different types of jazz. Compared with rock, jazz involves a vast array of song…

Throughout its long history, psychology developed into a field that deals largely with abnormal conditions. Recently, a new trend has developed within the field that highlights positive psychological attributes and the…

¶ … Frankie Manning, the father of the Lindy Hop swing dance, and a legend in swing dance circles. Frankie Manning did not invent the Lindy Hop, as many people believe. However, he created some of its most famous moves…

¶ … 20th century humanities or modernism is the assumption that the autonomy of the individual is the sole source of meaning and truth. This belief, which stemmed from the application of reason and natural science, led…

¶ … jazz and the blues. The roots of jazz and blues, which have become synonymous with American music, lie in New Orleans, and spread out across America and the world from the traditional African-American slave music…

In Ellison's Invisible Man the hindrances to the creation of individual identity are not merely limited to racism as it is generally understood; instead, to him, the racial picture in the United States needs to be…