80 résultats pour "dance"
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Modern Dance
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Modern Dance, tradition of theatrical dance unique to the 20th century.
Though both had their own interests and styles, their collaboration helped establish modern dance as a 20th-century artform. Shawn helped overcome prejudices against men in the new field of modern dance.E.O. Hoppé/Corbis Because a dance language involves elements such as posture, use of the body’s weight, and the character of movements (sinuous, angular, and so forth)—as well asspecific movements of the head, torso, hands, arms, legs, and feet—most creators of modern dance have considered it ess...
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Dance
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Dance
Archive Films/BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.
features in its dance styles. The ordinary potential of the body can be expanded in dance, usually through long periods of specialized training. In ballet, for example, the dancer exercises to rotate,or turn out, the legs at the hips, making it possible to lift the leg high in an arabesque. In India, some dancers learn to choreograph their eyeballs and eyebrows.Costuming can extend the body's capabilities. Toe or pointe shoes, stilts, and flying harnesses are a few of the artificial aids employe...
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Popular and Social Dance
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The Cakewalk
The cakewalk, a dance of African American origin, was intended to lampoon high-strutting whites at fancy dress balls.
master. The dance manuals published between 1550 and 1630, written by Thoinot Arbeau of France, Cesare Negri of Italy, and other dancing masters, describe dances such asthe pavane, galliard, allemande, courante, saltarello, and volta, as well as circular branles and progressive longways dances (for a line of couples, in which each couplerepeats the pattern with one new couple after another; see Country Dance). The sense of order and harmony so important during the Renaissance gave rise to forma...
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Indian Music
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Classical Dance of South India
The southern Indian kathakali is a dance drama that dates from the 17th century.
Sangita Ratnakara, was written in the 13th century. However, subsequent writers tended to focus on the emotional connotations of individual ragas, associating them with moods, performance times, colors, and deities, and grouping them in terms of families. The modern theoretical system began in the 16th century, when ragasbegan to be classified according to scale—72 in the Karnāṭak system and 10 principal ones in the Hindustani. The 72 mela, as the Karn āṭak scales are called, are derived thro...
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Modern Dance
Deutschland, die meisten seiner Vertreter mussten emigrieren. 3.2 Die zweite Generation Um 1930 bildete sich in New York bereits eine zweite Generation von Vertretern des Modern Dance heraus. Dazu zählen die Amerikaner Martha Graham, Doris Humphreyund Charles Weidman, die alle in der Denishawn-Compagnie getanzt hatten, und die in Deutschland geborene Tänzerin Hanya Holm, die aus Mary Wigmans Compagniekam. Diese Tänzer lehnten Bewegungsanstöße von außen ab und befassten sich stattdessen mit grun...
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Folk Dance
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Traditional Irish Dancing
Irish dancing comprises mainly reels and jigs and may be accompanied by lively folk music played on the fiddle, harp, or
bagpipes.
Highland Games and DancesHighland dances are part of the Highland Games, a series of events held annually in various parts of Scotland, Canada,and the United States. Dance historians point out that warriors from the Scottish Highlands once went into battle dancingand playing the bagpipes. Highland dances, performed to music played on bagpipes or fiddles, remain an important part ofScottish culture.Courtesy of BBC Worldwide Americas. All Rights Reserved. Folk dances are usually thought to be simp...
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Martha Graham, la reine incontestée de la modern dance américaine
Martha Graham, pionnière de la modem dance. La technique qu'elle crée influence de nombreuses chorégraphies du xx- siècle. Martha Graham, la reine incontestée de la modern dance américaine Avant elle, l'Américaine Isadora Duncan et l'Al lemande Mar y Wigman se font remarquer . Martha Graham n' est ni la premi ère ni la seule de sa disciplin e, et pour tant elle est consi dérée comme la plus grande chorégraphe de I'American Modern Dance. S i au débu...
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- Dance and religion
- Shadow Dancer
- Sun Dance
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Montaigne, Essais, III, 13, De l'expérience « Quand je dance, je dance ;
quand je dors, je dors »...
Quand...
Montaigne, Essais, III, 13, De l'expérience « Quand je dance, je dance ; quand je dors, je dors »... Quand je dance, je dance; quand je dors, je dors; voire, et quand je me promeine solitairement en un beau vergier, si mes pensees se sont entretenues des occurrences estrangieres quelque partie du temps, quelque autre partie, je les rameine à la promenade, au vergier, à la douceur de cette solitude, et à moy. Nature a maternellement observé cela, que les actions qu'elle nous a enjoinctes pour nos...
- dance and the different types of choreographie process
- square dance - danse.
- Gene Kelly Gene Kelly (1912-1996), American tap and ballet dancer, choreographer, actor, and director, known for his work in motion-picture musicals.
- Matisse's The Dance - - art.
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Titanic (motion picture, 1997)
Titanic (motion picture, 1997), drama about the sinking of a luxury liner during its first transatlantic voyage, based on the true story of the Titanic disaster that
occurred in 1912.
Derrick Lea (Leading stoker Barrett)Richard Ashton (Carpenter John Hutchinson)Sean. M. Nepita (Elevator operator)Brendan Connolly (Scotland road steward)David Cronelly (Crewman)Garth Wilton (First class waiter)Martin Laing (Promenade deck steward)Richard Fox (Steward no. one)Nick Meaney (Steward no. two)Kevin Owers (Steward no. three)Mark Capri (Steward no. four)Marc Cass (Hold steward no. one)Paul Herbert (Hold steward no. two)Emmett James (First class steward)Christopher Byrne (Stairwell stewa...
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Ballet
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Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker is a classic ballet with music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Joffrey Ballet SchoolTraining for classical ballet dancers must begin when the students are very young. Here, teacher Dorothy Lister workswith her pre-ballet class of six-year-olds at the Joffrey Ballet School. These students are learning the five basic positions ofclassical ballet.Susan Kunklin/Photo Researchers, Inc. Different systems of ballet training have evolved, named after countries (Russia, France) or teachers (Italian dancer Enrico Cecchetti, Danish choreographer AugustBournonville). T...
- Pilobolus Dance Theater.
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Latin American Music
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Tito Puente Playing the Drums
Since the 1950s American drummer Tito Puente has popularized Latin American music, especially the mambo, in the
United States.
Panpipe Music of BoliviaWell before the Spanish conquest, native peoples such as the Quechua and Aymara living in the Andes Mountains inBolivia, Peru, and Ecuador, developed a rich musical tradition. Panpipes (set of tuned pipes), made of ceramic, sugarcane,or bone were paired with shell trumpets, cane flutes, and drums, which accompanied dancers during religious and secularceremonies. Large ensembles of 4 to 20 panpipe players are still the norm, and Spanish influences have since beenintegrated...
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Ice Skating.
cold climate. Competitors for these events are chosen from the best skaters in each participating country, usually through preliminary national competitions. Speedskaters also compete on a World Cup circuit, which pits the world’s best skaters against one another during the year. A Figure Skating The major types of competitive figure skating are individual men’s and women’s competitions, pairs skating, ice dancing, and precision skating. In individualcompetitions a single skater performs requir...
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Honey Bee - biology.
B Reproduction and Development The queen controls the sex of her offspring. When an egg passes from her ovary to her oviduct, the queen determines whether the egg is fertilized with sperm from thespermatheca. A fertilized egg develops into a female honey bee, either worker or queen, and an unfertilized egg becomes a male honey bee, or drone. The queen lays the eggs that will develop into more queens in specially constructed downward-pointing, peanut-shaped cells, in which the egg adheres to the...
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Musical
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George Gershwin
American pianist, songwriter, and composer George Gershwin was one of the most important figures in popular song in
the 1920s and 1930s.
C Extravaganzas Another predecessor of musical comedy, the extravaganza, evolved soon after the American Civil War (1861-1865) from traditional English pantomime. Extravaganzaswere typically based on fairy tales and Mother Goose. They introduced some of the elements—songs, dances, and comedy combined with spectacular stage sets andeffects—that American musical comedy later became known for. The first and most famous extravaganza show was The Black Crook (1866), often described as America’s fi...
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Tanz
3.3 Ballett und Modern Dance Das Ballett entwickelte sich während der Renaissance an den Höfen Italiens und Frankreichs und wurde im späten 17. Jahrhundert zu einer Berufsdisziplin. Seit dieser Zeitist es eine der bedeutenden Kunstformen der abendländischen Kultur. Im ausgehenden 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert rebellierten die amerikanischen Tänzerinnen IsadoraDuncan und Ruth Saint Denis gegen das klassische Ballett. Auch der Schweizer Erzieher Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, der ungarische Tänzer Rudol...
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Asian Theater
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Asian Theater, live performance, featuring actors or puppets, native to Asia, a continent with more than 2 billion people of many nations and cultures.
III THEATER IN EAST ASIA Theater in East Asia includes the traditions of China, Japan, and Korea. Most Chinese theater is urban, secular (nonreligious) entertainment, influenced by the ethics of Confucianism. However, a belief in spirits influences rituals performed by ethnic minorities in China, and Buddhism dominates traditional Tibetan performance. Japanesedramatic forms combine native shamanistic performance, secular entertainment, and cultural or religious influences from China and Kore...
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Japanese Music
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Shamisen Performance
The shamisen is a Japanese instrument with three strings.
utilizes six modes, or scales, of Chinese origin, all derived from two basic pentatonic (five-note) scales: ryo, D E-flat G A B-flat, plus F and C as auxiliary pitches; and ritsu, D F G A C, plus auxiliary pitches E-flat and B-flat. The meters in gagaku music are basically duple (in twos). IV DRAMATIC MUSIC Classical Nō Drama of JapanInspired both spiritually and artistically by Zen Buddhism, the Japanese n ō theater is composed of four main components:music (voices, instruments), choreogra...
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Cunningham Merce, né en 1919 à Centralia (Washington), danseur, chorégraphe et
directeur de compagnie de danse américain.
publique, hall de gare). À Paris, il faudra attendre le Festival d'automne, fondé par Michel Guy, pour que soit programmé à l'Opéra Un jour ou deux (1973). Au festival d'Avignon, en 1976, Cunningham connaît la consécration. La création de Roaratorio a lieu au festival de Lille, en 1983. La première Biennale de la danse de Lyon (1984) accueille un event. La création de Five Stone Wind a lieu le 30 juillet 1988 en Avignon. En 1989, la compagnie Cunningham est au festival d'Arles et, en...
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Bhutan - country.
languages ( see Indo-Iranian Languages) and follow Hinduism. Nepalese people constitute a significant portion of Bhutan’s population. They are the most recent settlers, occupying south central and southwestern Bhutan. TheNepalese are mainly Rai, Gurung, and Limbu ethnic groups from the eastern mountains of Nepal. Nepalese immigration has been banned since 1959, when theBhutanese government feared the minority would become too populous. Nepalese are not permitted to live in the central Middle Hi...
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Jazz
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Joshua Redman
Saxophonist Joshua Redman, a graduate of Harvard University, became a fast-rising star in jazz in the 1990s.
performed a highly produced, jazz-inspired form of blues that was popular in traveling minstrel shows and vaudeville. Thisexample is from the song “St. Louis Blues,” written by American composer and trumpet player W. C. Handy in 1914 andrecorded by Smith in 1925."St. Louis Blues" performed by Bessie Smith, from The Riverside History of Classic Jazz (Cat.# Riverside RB-005) Riverside Records under master license to Fantasy, Inc. All rightsreserved./Frank DriggsCollection/Archive Photos Jazz is ro...
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Martha Graham, la reine de la "modern dance" américaine
correspond à son époque. Martha Graham a influencé plusieurs générations de danseurs. Le London Contemporary Danse Theatre, entre autres, se réclame de son patronage artistique. 2
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?Kholle : désir et imagination
Accroche :
Dancer in
ou la Nouvelle Héloïse : montre paradoxalement que désir s’accompagne de plaisir et satisfaction s’accompagne de Malheur. o Imagination comme force d’illusion : imagination génératrice d’erreurs, illusions images pas véridiques : Exemple : Animaux imaginaires comme dragon/ Superhero… Imagination ment même pour objets existants puisque rend présent ce qui est absent Modification perception du monde. Auteur : Montaigne – Imagination nous empêche de marcher sur une plan...
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Native American Art
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Native American Art, the visual works crafted by indigenous people of North America, starting after their arrival on the continent thousands of years ago and continuing
until the present.
artists in the Ohio area cut delicate flat forms from sheets of mica in the shape of birds, human figures, and large hands. They also carved quite natural-looking birdsand animals on stone platform pipes. These figures sat on the pipe’s flat base, or platform, and on some pipes they were part of the pipe bowl. Prominent people ofthese cultures were buried with a wealth of ornaments, such as jewelry of shells and copper, and headdresses elaborated with animal forms. The period of Mississippian cu...
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Dancer In The Dark de Lars Von Trier
même scène. On offre donc au spectateur des séquences musicales très hachées, très denses aussi ce qui fait la richesse de cette mise en scène. Bibliographie: Dancer in the Dark: -VON TRIER Lars, Dancer in the Dark, éditions Petite bibliothèque des cahiers du cinéma, Paris, 2000, 192p -VON TRIER Lars, Dancer in the Dark, Danemark, 2000, 2h19min, couleurs Articles: -MORICE Jacques, critique de Dancer in the Dark, Télérama, 21 octobre 2000 -ROY Jean, critique de Dancer in the Dark, L’Humanité, 18...
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Native American Religions.
In the worldview of most of the indigenous peoples of North America, there were also spiritual beings to be avoided. Native Americans of the Southwest in particular,such as the Navajo and Apache, dreaded contact with ghosts, who were believed to resent the living. These peoples disposed of the bodies of deceased relativesimmediately and attempted to distance themselves from the spirits of the dead, avoiding their burial sites, never mentioning their names, and even abandoning thedwellings in whi...
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Ghana - country.
times of depressed cacao prices, Ghana has significantly increased exports of timber to generate needed revenue. In 1988 Ghana initiated a conservation plan called the Forest Resource Management Project. In 1989 Ghana restricted the export of 18 tree species, and in 1994 thecountry banned the export of raw logs. About 4.8 percent (1997) of the country’s land is officially protected, but illegal logging threatens Ghana’s remaining forests. Deforestation, overgrazing, and periodic drought have led...
- The Dance Hall at Arles - Vincent Van Gogh
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Cunningham Merce
Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)Cunningham, Merce - danse. 1 PRÉSENTATION Cunningham, Merce (1919- ), danseur et chorégraphe américain, chef de file de la danse américaine d'avant-garde. Il constitue la charnière entre les créateurs de la danse moderne et la génération des danseurs libres. 2 LE FRUIT DES RENCONTRES Né à Centralia (État de Washington), Merce Cunningham commence l'étude de la danse à douze ans. À seize ans, il s'oriente vers le théâtre et suit les cours de la Cornish School of...
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's work combined Russian and European influences.
The period of his connection with von Meck was one of rich productivity for Tchaikovsky. To this time belong the operas Eugene Onegin (1879), The Maid of Orleans (1881), Mazeppa (1884), and The Sorceress (1887); the ballets Swan Lake (1877) and The Sleeping Beauty (1890); the Violin Concerto in D Major (1878) and the Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major (1881); the orchestral works Marche Slave (1876), Symphony No. 4 in F Minor (1878), Capriccio Italien (1880), Serenade (1881), the 1...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
including the sacred style of church music and the so-called galant (courtly) idiom. The elegant though often superficial galant style dominated much instrumental music of the 1760s and 1770s. Mozart’s mastery often demonstrates itself in an ability to expand and deepen the stylistic possibilities of the time. The manner in which heextended the character and form of the concerto, for instance, owes much to his experience in writing operatic arias. A Musical Expressiveness In the masterful Je...
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Haiti - country.
Haitian Creole and French are the official languages of Haiti. Haitian Creole, a French-based Creole with influences from West African languages, was made an officiallanguage under the 1987 constitution. It is the mother tongue for nearly the entire population of Haiti and the language of instruction in schools. French is spokenmainly as a second language by a small section of the population. B Religion About 80 percent of Haiti’s people are nominal Roman Catholics, many of them combining an Af...
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Native American Policy.
of white settlement dominated policy during the second quarter of the 19th century. IV REMOVAL PERIOD The idea of moving Native Americans to a different part of the country was not new. After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson had suggestedthat tracts of land in this vast new territory could be given to native peoples if they agreed to cede their lands in the eastern part of the country. Transfers occurred in apiecemeal way, but no consistent removal program developed u...
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1970 – 1979 : DANSE CONTEMPORAINE
DANSE CONTEMPORAINE . La danseuse et chor égraphe Carolyn Carlson dans Cipher, créé à Ar les en septembre 1976. ©D elahaye DANSE CONTEMPOR AINE. Einstein on the Beach, opéra de Bob Wilson et Phil Glass, sur une chorégra phie d'Andy De Groat et une musique de Phil Glass, est créé au festival d'Avignon en 1976. © Enguerrand LE LOFT EST SON LANGAGE Simultanément la danse investit de nouveaux lieux . Au théât re conventionn el, qui conserve l'idée du...
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African Music
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Sacred Christian Music of Nigeria
Among the Igede people of Nigeria, Christianity has been syncretized with the existing religious belief system.
III INSTRUMENTS Traditional Timbila of MozambiqueAmong the Chopi, who have lived for centuries along the coast of Mozambique, there is a highly developed tradition ofsongwriting and composing for timbila (xylophone) orchestras. Elaborate migodo (dance suites), interspersed with poeticsongs pertaining to village life, are often performed to these compositions. Timbila music is now recognized as the nationalmusic of Mozambique."Eduardo Durao Mauaia" from Eduardo Durao and Orquestra Durao: Timbil...
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Native American Art.
folding, braiding or weaving, could also be sewn onto the hide. The production of decorated clothing and bags increased after contact with Europeans as a greater variety of textiles and other materials became available throughtrade. Imported glass beads inspired native women, who quickly adapted quillwork techniques for the creation of beaded apparel. European curvilinear and floraldesigns of the 19th century proved as meaningful for the native women who worked with them as they were for the non...
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Rhythm-and-Blues Music
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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...
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Cambodia - country.
The population of Cambodia is 14,241,640 (2008 estimate). Population growth per year is estimated at 1.8 percent, one of the highest rates in Asia. The rate of infantmortality is also high. The population density is 81 persons per sq km (209 per sq mi), with the densest concentrations on the heavily cultivated central plain. Themountainous regions of the country, where malaria is widespread, are thinly populated, as are the poorly watered northern provinces. During the late 1970s, under thebruta...
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Oscar-Preisträger.
Beste RegieJAHR NAME ORIGINALTITEL DEUTSCHER TITEL 1929 Lewis MilestoneFrank Borzage Two Arabian KnightsSeventh Heaven SchlachtenbummlerIm siebenten Himmel 1930 Frank Lloyd The Divine Lady Die ungekrönte Königin 1930 Lewis Milestone All Quiet on the Western Front Im Westen nichts Neues 1931 Norman Taurog Skippy - 1932 Frank Borzage Bad Girl - 1934 Frank Lloyd Cavalcade Cavalcade 1935 Frank Capra It Happened One Night Es geschah in einer Nacht 1936 John Ford The Informer Der Verräter 1937 Frank C...
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London (England) - geography.
In the northern part of the West End is Bloomsbury, the city’s traditional intellectual center, with its concentration of bookshops and homes of writers and academics. Inthe early 20th century a number of famous writers, critics, and artists who lived here became known as the Bloomsbury Group. Here, too, is the British Museum, one ofLondon’s chief tourist attractions. Nearby is the giant complex of the University of London, whose various colleges and departments have taken over much ofBloomsbury...
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Popular Music
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Satchmo Sings "Back O' Town Blues"
One of the founders of instrumental jazz music, American Louis Armstrong, known as Satchmo, also profoundly influenced
vocal jazz and popular song.
disseminating popular music until the 1920s remained printed sheet music. By the late 19th century, the music-publishing business was centralized in New York City,particularly in an area of lower Manhattan called Tin Pan Alley. “After the Ball” (1892) by Charles K. Harris, the first popular song to sell 1 million copies—in this case, ofsheet music—inspired rapid growth in the music-publishing industry. Composers were hired to rapidly produce popular songs by the dozens, and the techniques ofFost...
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Uganda - country.
Uganda’s population is predominantly rural and is concentrated in the south, particularly in the crescent at the edge of Lake Victoria and in the southwest. Almost allUgandans are black Africans. Foreign residents make up less than 4 percent of the population and come mostly from neighboring states. In 2008 Uganda’s population was estimated at 31,367,972. The estimated growth rate of the population in 2008 was 3.6 percent. The birth rate was 48 per 1,000people and the death rate 12 per 1,000. Th...