368 résultats pour "rock"

• Winning One for the Gipper.

  Gipp had a swagger off the field as well. A noted pool shark and gambler, he frequented South Bend's less savory establishments and kept hours that would haveearned any other player a swift dismissal from the team. In an era when gambling and college football seemed congenial bedfellows, Gipp often served as the teambookie—for wagers on Notre Dame games. Accused by Rockne of lacking interest in the 1920 Notre Dame-Army clash, Gipp reportedly replied, “You're wrongthere,” according to Wake Up th...

• Mount Everest - geography.

  endangered or killed when their tents collapsed or were ripped to shreds by the gales. Hypothermia, the dramatic loss of body heat, is also a major and debilitatingproblem in this region of high winds and low temperatures. Another hazard facing Everest climbers is the famous Khumbu icefall, which is located not far above Base Camp and is caused by the rapid movement of the Khumbuglacier over the steep rock underneath. The movement breaks the ice into sérac (large, pointed masses of ice) cliffs...

• New York - geography.

  The Adirondack province consists of a large highland area occupying 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq mi) in the northeastern quarter of the state. The region is domelike inshape, with the higher elevations toward the east. The western Adirondack province is more a rugged hill region and not truly mountainous. Geologically, this area isrelated to the Laurentian Upland, or Canadian Shield, which lies north of the St. Lawrence River, for it is composed of the same very old igneous rocks, principallygranite...

• New York - USA History.

  The Adirondack province consists of a large highland area occupying 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq mi) in the northeastern quarter of the state. The region is domelike inshape, with the higher elevations toward the east. The western Adirondack province is more a rugged hill region and not truly mountainous. Geologically, this area isrelated to the Laurentian Upland, or Canadian Shield, which lies north of the St. Lawrence River, for it is composed of the same very old igneous rocks, principallygranite...

• China - country.

  North China lies between the Mongolian Steppe on the north and the Yangtze River Basin on the south. It stretches west from the Bo Hai gulf and the Yellow Sea to theeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Administratively, North China includes Beijing and Tianjin municipalities; Shandong and Shanxi provinces; most of Hebei, Henan,and Shaanxi provinces; and portions of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and of Jiangsu, Anhui, and Gansu provinces. Humans have lived in the agriculturally rich region of Nor...

• Rolling Stones Groupe de rock britannique

• Clapton Eric

  Clapton, Eric - rock. 1 PRÉSENTATION Clapton, Eric (1945- ), auteur, compositeur, interprète et guitariste de rock et de blues britannique. Artiste discret et fidèle depuis le début de sa carrière aux influences blues qui ont déterminé son parcours musical, Eric Clapton figure parmi les guitaristes les plus accomplis et les plus influents de l’histoire du rock. Virtuose aux qualités techniques exceptionnelles, adepte d’un jeu à la fois subtil et classique — la fluidité de son jeu et son phras...

• 1970 – 1979 : LES Années pop

  LES ANNÉES POP. Julien Clerc: la nou velle génération des chanteurs français. Ci contre : le musicien à l'Ol ympia en 197 6. © Claude Gassian LES ANNÉES POP. Les spectacles du Pink Floyd: invention sonore et visuelle. © Boccon Gibod -Sipa Press encore Single Man , f:n 1978 , qui fut son premier vrai succès en France . David Bowie, lui, évoluant sans cesse du rock mystico-pla­ nant de Space Oddity (en 1970) à la sou! music de l'album Young Americ...

• Le Rock and Roll et la pop music

  Bu ddy H oll y, Jerry L ee Le wi s et Elv is Presley. Cito ns éga le m e nt, pa rmi ces p io nni ers, Bo Didd ­ l ey, Fats D o min o, Gene Vin cent, Edd ie Coc hran , Roy Orbison. C'es t le te mps d e la l ége nde e t du sca ndale. Un exe mpl e: a fin de fin an ce r un voyage à Me mphis , Je rry L ee Lewis dut vend re d es œufs e n comp agnie de so n p èr e, qui ava it d éjà h y p o­ théq u é la ma ison f amili ale po ur lui achete r un p...

• guitare.

  country Dire Straits Espagne - Arts - Musique Espagne - Arts - Musique - Le folklore Espinel Vicente fandango Giuliani Mauro Hendrix Jimi Hooker John Lee instruments de musique - La tradition occidentale - Le XXe siècle instruments de musique - Tradition savante et tradition populaire jazz - Une « musique d'art » d'essence populaire Johnson Robert King (Riley Ben King, dit B.B.) Lagoya Alexandre Led Zeppelin McLaughlin John Montgomery (John Leslie, dit Wes) Ponce Manuel Maria...

• Mars (planet) - astronomy.

  The Martian core is probably much like Earth’s, consisting mostly of iron, with a small amount of nickel. If other light elements, particularly sulfur, exist there as well, thecore may be larger than presently thought. From studying Earth’s magnetic field and core, scientists theorize that the motions of the liquid rock in Earth’s core generateits magnetic field. Mars does not have a significant magnetic field, so scientists believe that Mars’s core is probably solid. However, spacecraft data in...

• Venus (planet) - astronomy.

  level winds circle the planet at 360 km/h (225 mph), making a complete rotation in only four days. These winds are said to super-rotate because they travel muchfaster than the rotation of the planet itself. These high-speed winds cover the planet completely, blowing toward the west at virtually every latitude from equator topole. The motions of descending probes, however, have shown that the bulk of Venus’s tremendously dense atmosphere, closer to the planet’s surface, is almoststagnant. From th...

• Rap I INTRODUCTION Jay-Z Rapper Jay-Z rose to popularity with such albums as Vol.

  Run-DMCTypically in rap music, vocalists recite rhyming lyrics in time to a beat that may be sampled from prerecorded music byother groups. Black youths developed rap music on the streets of inner cities in the United States during the 1970s, butthe style has expanded to include a wider variety of performers and audiences. The rap group Run-DMC, shown here, wasa powerful early influence in the genre. The group helped bring rap music into the mainstream when it released “WalkThis Way” (1986), a s...

• Stone Age.

  limestone, quartzite, and indurated shale. Ground stone tools could be made on a wider range of raw material types, including coarser grained rock such as granite. Flaking produces several different types of stone artifacts, which archaeologists look for at prehistoric sites. The parent pieces of rock from which chips have beendetached are called cores, and the chips that have been removed from cores are called flakes. A flake that has had yet smaller flakes removed from one or more edgesin orde...

• funk

  La basse novatrice de Larry Graham, inventeur du slap, une technique inédite permettant de produire des lignes de basses claquantes et percussives en tirant et frappant alternativement les cordes, y est omniprésente. Comme William « Bootsy » Collins, le jeune bassiste surdoué de James Brown, Larry Graham se lance après ces enregistrements dans une carrière solo de bassiste qui, difficilement concevable dans un autre genre, témoigne de la faveur de cet instrument — éminemme...

• Civil Rights Movement in the United States - U.

  The Great Depression of the 1930s increased black protests against discrimination, especially in Northern cities. Blacks protested the refusal of white-owned businessesin all-black neighborhoods to hire black salespersons. Using the slogan “Don't Buy Where You Can't Work,” these campaigns persuaded blacks to boycott thosebusinesses and revealed a new militancy. During the same years, blacks organized school boycotts in Northern cities to protest discriminatory treatment of blackchildren. The bla...

• New Mexico - geography.

  New Mexico’s major river is the Río Grande, originating in southern Colorado, and flowing southward for 760 km (470 mi) through the state. Between the San LuisValley and Española Valley the river flows in a deep canyon known as the Río Grande Gorge; then, below White Rock Canyon, it flows through several valleys containingagricultural land. Most of the water of the Río Grande is used to irrigate these valleys. The Río Grande’s waterflow in New Mexico is extremely low. One of the major tributarie...

• New Mexico - USA History.

  New Mexico’s major river is the Río Grande, originating in southern Colorado, and flowing southward for 760 km (470 mi) through the state. Between the San LuisValley and Española Valley the river flows in a deep canyon known as the Río Grande Gorge; then, below White Rock Canyon, it flows through several valleys containingagricultural land. Most of the water of the Río Grande is used to irrigate these valleys. The Río Grande’s waterflow in New Mexico is extremely low. One of the major tributarie...

• Idaho - geography.

  Idaho-Montana state line in the southern part of the Bitterroot Mountains. Consequently, nearly all the rivers in the state drain toward the Pacific. Most of Idaho lieswithin the drainage basin of the Columbia River system. The Snake River, which is the chief river in southern and central Idaho, follows a crescent-shaped course forabout 790 km (about 490 mi) across southern Idaho. It then swings northward along the Idaho state line and joins the Columbia River in Washington. Major tributariesof...

• Idaho - USA History.

  Idaho-Montana state line in the southern part of the Bitterroot Mountains. Consequently, nearly all the rivers in the state drain toward the Pacific. Most of Idaho lieswithin the drainage basin of the Columbia River system. The Snake River, which is the chief river in southern and central Idaho, follows a crescent-shaped course forabout 790 km (about 490 mi) across southern Idaho. It then swings northward along the Idaho state line and joins the Columbia River in Washington. Major tributariesof...

• North Carolina - geography.

  The drainage divide in North Carolina follows the Blue Ridge range on the eastern margin of the mountain region. This is called the “Eastern Continental Divide.” West ofthis divide, rivers drain into the Mississippi River through the Tennessee River and other tributaries of the Ohio River. The French Broad, the largest, and the LittleTennessee flow into the Tennessee River. The New River flows into the Kanawha River of West Virginia which in turn flows into the Ohio River. Most of the state’s ri...

• North Carolina - USA History.

  The drainage divide in North Carolina follows the Blue Ridge range on the eastern margin of the mountain region. This is called the “Eastern Continental Divide.” West ofthis divide, rivers drain into the Mississippi River through the Tennessee River and other tributaries of the Ohio River. The French Broad, the largest, and the LittleTennessee flow into the Tennessee River. The New River flows into the Kanawha River of West Virginia which in turn flows into the Ohio River. Most of the state’s ri...

• United Kingdom - country.

  B Natural Regions and Topography The island of Great Britain can be divided into two major natural regions—the highland zone and the lowland zone. The highland zone is an area of high hills andmountains in the north and west. The lowland zone in the south and east consists mostly of rolling plains. The zones are divided by an imaginary line running throughEngland from the River Exe on the southwest coast to the mouth of the River Tees on the northeast coast. The lowland zone has a milder climat...

• The Beatles I INTRODUCTION Beatlemania BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.

  more sophisticated lyrical ideas. The group’s next album, Rubber Soul (1965), is regarded as a creative breakthrough. It featured instruments innovative to Western pop/rock music, such as the Indian sitar, and experimental sounds. The Revolver album (1966) was another important advance in songwriting and musical craftsmanship for the band. IV LATER YEARS AND BREAKUP The pressures caused by the group’s extreme popularity—known as Beatlemania—resulted in safety problems for the group, especi...

• Frank Zappa - enfant terrible du rock et musicien génial

  "Jazz from Hell". Peu avant de mourir d'un cancer, le 4 décembre 1993, il produit, avec un orchestre d'avant-garde allemand, un enregistrement de ses oeuvres récentes pour orchestre. Sa dernière production le renvoie à sa jeunesse: il reprend la direction musicale d'un ensemble des oeuvres d'Edgar Varèse, "compositeur et acousticien" comme il se définit lui-même, qui a toujours fait l'admiration de Zappa. 2

• Rolling Stones

  Rolling Stones. groupe de rock anglais fondé en 1963. Depuis leurs débuts, les Rolling Stones ont fait mieux que survivre dans un genre où la plupart n'ont pas tenu dix ans. Cette longévité en a fait la formation type dont presque tous les rockers acceptent l'héritage musical, mais aussi l'influence morale et sociale... Du blues au rock. Dans les années soixante, la concurrence entre les Beatles et les Rolling Stones était à la fois sociale et esthétique : les Beatles, issus du milieu ouvrier...

• Tout en préservant son caractère ethnique, la musique afro-américaine a

  prétexte à confronter les expériences, les innovations et surtout les émotions immédiates. Tel est l'enjeu de l'improvisation en groupe et de la communion qu'elle exige de la part du public. Le jazz est l'art d'orchestrer les sentiments intimes. Contrairement à ce qui prévaut dans la musique classique européenne, l'interprète n'y est pas au service du compositeur, mais de la meilleure extrapolation possible du thème choisi. Le jazzman n'exécute pas, il trahit pour mieux traduire ses propres émot...

• Extreme Sports.

  racing events are the Raid Gauloises and the Eco-Challenge. Created in 1989 by French journalist Gerard Fusil, the Raid Gauloises is a grueling two-week adventure racein which five-person teams cross rugged and remote terrain. The inaugural Raid was held in New Zealand, and subsequent races have been staged in Costa Rica,Madagascar, Borneo, and Chile. The race has five separate stages designed to fit each location’s unique terrain. Stages may require horseback riding, white-waterpaddling, mounta...

• South America - geography.

  B Natural Regions Tierra del Fuego, ArgentinaUshuaia, on Argentina’s island of Tierra del Fuego, is the world’s southernmost city. Argentina claims part of the Tierra del Fuegoarchipelago, including the largest island, known as Tierra del Fuego or Great Island, and Staten Island. Chile claims the remainder ofthe islands in the territory.R. Van Nostrand/Photo Researchers, Inc. Rising abruptly from the northwestern and western coasts of the continent are the Andes. They consist of a single chain...

• Valley.

  Except in mountainous terrain, rivers are almost always flanked by floodplains. Floodplains are flat wide deposits of alluvium, river-deposited sediment, on either side of the river channel. During floods, a river overflows its banks and spreads out the sediment near the river to form a floodplain. Floodplains of large rivers, such as thoseof the Mississippi River, can be flat areas tens of kilometers across. River channels migrate back and forth across their floodplains as alluvium is repeate...

• Valley - Geography.

  Except in mountainous terrain, rivers are almost always flanked by floodplains. Floodplains are flat wide deposits of alluvium, river-deposited sediment, on either side of the river channel. During floods, a river overflows its banks and spreads out the sediment near the river to form a floodplain. Floodplains of large rivers, such as thoseof the Mississippi River, can be flat areas tens of kilometers across. River channels migrate back and forth across their floodplains as alluvium is repeate...

• Denver - geography.

  Denver is the center of professional sports in the Rocky Mountain region. Major league teams are the Denver Broncos (football), Colorado Rockies (baseball), DenverNuggets (basketball), and Colorado Avalanche (ice hockey). Coors Field (opened in 1995) is the home of the Colorado Rockies. The Broncos began play at the newlyconstructed Invesco Field at Mile High in 2001, and the Nuggets and Avalanche play at the Pepsi Center. The National Western Stock Show and Rodeo, one of thelargest such shows i...

• Evolution - biology.

  genetic diversity to extinction. Sexual reproduction ensures that the genes in a population are rearranged in each generation, a process termed recombination. Although the combinations of genes inindividuals change with each new generation, the gene frequency, or ratio of different alleles in the entire population, remains relatively constant if no evolutionaryforces act on the population. One such force is the introduction of new genes into the genetic material of the population, or gene pool...

• La ville de Sidney

  UN SITE EXCEPTIONNEL Sydney s'est développée sur la rive sud d'une baie exceptionnelle, un immense port IHitllrfl ouvert sur le Pacifique : _.,_...,.....,~ ... ~ . . . «'• ; --- '' Port Jackson , qui pénètre sur plus de 20 km dans les terres et compte environ 240 km de côtes. La ville s'étend de Hawkesbury River , au nord, aux contreforts de la cordillère Australienne , au sud, et aux Blue Mountains à l'ouest Elle a grandi jusqu'à occuper tou...

• Hancock Herbie

  Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)Herbie Hancock - Musik. Herbie Hancock (*1940), eigentlich Herbert Jeffrey Hancock, amerikanischer Jazzmusiker (Pianist, Komponist), einer der Pioniere des Fusion Jazz. Hancock wurde in Chicago (USA) in eine musikalische Familie hineingeboren, begann mit sieben Jahren Klavier zu spielen und trat bereits mit elf Jahren als Solist mit einemKlavierkonzert von Mozart mit dem Chicago Symphony Orchestra auf. Hancock studierte am Grinnell College und an der Roosevelt U...

• MacArthur Douglas, 1880-1964, né à Fort Little Rock (Arkansas), général américain.

• Mais nous sommes encore dans une esthétique folk-rock et les instruments électroniques auraient pu être remplacés par des basses et batteries conventionnelles. Robert Léger, la Chanson québécoise en question, Québec Amérique

• Prometheus (Forethought) Greek One of the Titans, descended from the Earth Mother (Gaia) and the Sky Father (Uranus); son of Iapetus and one of the daughters of Oceanus, possibly Clymene; brother of Atlas and Epimetheus; father of Deucalion.

  knew he was being tricked, Zeus decided to keep the knowledge of fire-making from humankind. Prometheus, undaunted, stole fire from heaven, or from the forge of the smith-god, Hephaestus, and took it to Earth hidden in the hollow stalk of the fennel plant. He then began to teach people all the uses of fire—how to make tools and fashion metal, how to build, and how to cook. He also taught people how to sow and reap, and how to use herbs for healing. Prometheus, Bound and Unbound - Mythology. Pro...

• Jerusalem - geography.

  There are many other artifacts in the city, tied to various periods of history; those of Canaanite, Israelite, Greek, Roman, Arab, Crusader, and Ottoman origin areamong the more prominent. Modern attractions include the Israel Museum (completed in 1965), which houses the Shrine of the Book, where the Dead Sea Scrolls areexhibited; the Rockefeller Museum (opened in 1938), which contains archaeological finds; the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum; the Museum of Biblical Archaeology; theMuseum of Islamic...

• Ethiopia - country.

  constitute about 6 percent of the population. The Somali, who live in the east and southeast, notably in the Ogadēn region, are about equal in number to the Shangalla.The Denakil inhabit the semidesert plains east of the highlands. The nonindigenous population includes Yemenis, Indians, Armenians, and Greeks. B Political Divisions Ethiopia is divided into nine regions composed of specific ethnic groups. The regions, which have a significant degree of autonomy, are Tigray; Afar; Amhara; Oromia;S...

• Jupiter (planet) - astronomy.

  Beneath the supercritical fluid zone, the pressure reaches 3 million Earth atmospheres. At this depth, the atoms collide so frequently and violently that the hydrogenatoms are ionized—that is, the negatively charged electrons are stripped away from the positively charged protons of the hydrogen nuclei. This ionization results in asea of electrically charged particles that resembles a liquid metal and gives rise to Jupiter’s magnetic field. This liquid metallic hydrogen zone is 30,000 to 40,000 k...

• Bill Clinton.

  When Arkansas governor David Pryor ran for the U.S. Senate in 1978, Clinton ran for governor. He promised to improve the state’s schools and highways and toimprove economic conditions so that more jobs would be created. At that time, the average income of people in Arkansas ranked 49th among the 50 states. Clinton woneasily, receiving 60 percent of the vote against four opponents in the Democratic primary election and 63 percent against the Republican candidate, Lynn Lowe, in thegeneral election...

• Bill Clinton - USA History.

  When Arkansas governor David Pryor ran for the U.S. Senate in 1978, Clinton ran for governor. He promised to improve the state’s schools and highways and toimprove economic conditions so that more jobs would be created. At that time, the average income of people in Arkansas ranked 49th among the 50 states. Clinton woneasily, receiving 60 percent of the vote against four opponents in the Democratic primary election and 63 percent against the Republican candidate, Lynn Lowe, in thegeneral election...

• Il étouffe déjà au milieu de cette ménagerie de baby-boomers nostalgiques de leur jeunesse peace and love venus entendre le rock de leurs vingt ans. Alain Beaulieu, le Fils perdu, Québec Amérique

• Biographie: Florent Mothe

  culture musical par divers autres style, se forgeant sa propre devise musicale. Jazz, Métal, ou encore Rock, il a trouvé sa voie, sans pour autant savoir qu'a travers son Myspace, il était déjà en train de se faire remarquer par les producteurs d'un futur spectacle à succès. Mozart L'opéra Rock. Après un retour en France, et après avoir passé divers casting éprouvant, cela sera enfin la reconnaissance pour un artiste qui c'est acharné à faire de sa passion, son métier.  

• Davis Miles Dewey, 1926-1991, né à Alton (Illinois), trompettiste et chef d'orchestre américain.

  Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)\HDLN0000100128 \LINK0031800323PE_0756T \LINK0060200609PE_0215T \LINK0062300629PE_0437T Davis Miles Dewey Trompettiste et chef d'orchestre américain * 25.5.1926, Alton, Illinois + 28.9.1991, Santa Monica, Californie L'initiateur du modern jazz doit sa célébrité à ses talents de trompettiste virtuose. Après des études en 1944-1945 à la Juilliard School of Music de New York, il joue aux côtés de Charlie Parker et transforme le be-bop dans le sens du cool jazz. Il dé...

• festival.

  (450 000 participants, en 1969). Depuis, ces grandes messes musicales se sont organisées et spécialisées : en Grande-Bretagne, le Womad attire des musiciens traditionnels du monde entier. En France, des manifestations comme le Printemps de Bourges et les Francofolies de La Rochelle sont devenues pour la chanson les temps forts de la consécration et des découvertes. Complétez votre recherche en consultant : Les corrélats rock - La prise de conscience des années soixante Théâtre. Les festival...

• LA Chanson de 1960 à 1969 : Histoire

  LA CHANSON. Les Beatles enregistrent Sergeanl Pepper's en 1967. Ci-dessus: la poche/le de l'album. ©Pathé-Marconi· Archives SGED flamment un public d'inconditionnels (on ne parle pas encore de «fans»), qui veulent affirmer leur enthousiasme et leur personnalité face à leurs parents, réputés . Résultat: sept cents sièges cassés au Palais des Sports en février 1961, et une véritable émeute quand, en 1962, 400 000 spectateurs déchaînés prennent d'assaut la pl...

• Plate Tectonics.

  ridges. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an underwater mountain range created at a divergent plate boundary in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of a worldwidesystem of ridges made by seafloor spreading. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is currently spreading at a rate of 2.5 cm per year (1 in per year). The mid-ocean ridges today are60,000 km (about 40,000 mi) long, forming the largest continuous mountain chain on earth. Earthquakes, faults, underwater volcanic eruptions, and vents, oropenings, along...

• Rhythm-and-Blues Music I INTRODUCTION Tina Turner American singer Tina Turner began performing rhythm-and-blues music in a band led by her former husband, Ike Turner, in the 1960s.

  thousands of black Americans migrated from the rural South to Midwest, Northeast, and West Coast cities. In popular music, new styles were created to meet thechanging tastes of this demographic group, leading to the development of the urbane sounds of R&B. The profound sociological changes of the World War II period were accompanied by two significant technological developments: the invention of the electric guitar in thelate 1930s and the discovery of the German-invented tape recorder by the mu...