18 résultats pour "nashville"
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Nashville - geography.
May event has grown into a major festival. In September the city hosts the Tennessee State Fair. One of Nashville's principle attractions is Opryland, a complex of entertainment and broadcasting facilities that offers live music shows, a resort and convention center,and shopping outlets. Since 1974 it has been the home to the Grand Ole Opry radio show, a country-music production that has not missed a broadcast since 1925. Percy Park and Edwin Warner Park provide open space, trails, playing field...
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Nashville - geography.
The metropolitan area has 10,549.3 sq km (4,073.1 sq mi). The important cities and towns in the metropolitan region include Franklin, site of a major battle of theAmerican Civil War (1861-1865), Murfreesboro, Gallatin, Lebanon, and Springfield. Nashville’s suburbs also have spread into adjacent counties in recent years, particularlyWilliamson County to the south. Nashville’s downtown is located on high, limestone bluffs overlooking the Cumberland River, with four bridges connecting the east and...
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Tennessee (state) - geography.
The climate of Tennessee is characterized by hot summers, mild winters, and abundant rainfall. C1 Temperature Average July temperatures range from less than 21° C (70° F) in the Blue Ridge region to 27° C (80° F) at Nashville and Memphis. Maximum daytime temperatures insummer often rise above 35° C (95° F) in central and western Tennessee. Daytime temperatures in the mountains rarely rise above 32° C (90° F). Summer nights tendto be warm and muggy in central and western Tennessee, but temperatu...
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Tennessee (state) - USA History.
The climate of Tennessee is characterized by hot summers, mild winters, and abundant rainfall. C1 Temperature Average July temperatures range from less than 21° C (70° F) in the Blue Ridge region to 27° C (80° F) at Nashville and Memphis. Maximum daytime temperatures insummer often rise above 35° C (95° F) in central and western Tennessee. Daytime temperatures in the mountains rarely rise above 32° C (90° F). Summer nights tendto be warm and muggy in central and western Tennessee, but temperatu...
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country, musique
d’Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell et du célèbre Hank Williams. Celui-ci, excellant aussi bien dans les ballades teintées de blues, le honky-tonk et le hillbilly (« Honky Tonkin’ », « Lovesick Blues »), fait figure aujourd’hui de pionnier. Des chanteurs rock aussi célèbres que Bob Dylan ou Neil Young revendiquent avec ferveur l’héritage de Williams, le premier artiste country à avoir véritablement popularisé cette musique aux États-Unis. Dans les années 1940 et 1950, le mand...
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- Ryman Robert, né en 1930 à Nashville (Tennessee), peintre américain.
- Avery (Oswald Theodore) Biologiste américain (Halifax, Canada, 1877 - Nashville, 1955).
- Shapley Harlow, 1885-1972, né à Nashville (Missouri), astronome américain.
- McCoy Horace, 1897-1955, né à Nashville (Tennessee), écrivain américain.
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LA MUSIQUE COUNTRY
La musique country Toutefois, dans un premier temps, bien que ces nouvelles influences musicales fassent partie de la culture américaine, elles restent encore très cir conscrites. Ainsi, il est clair que le blues, par exemple, n'a pas franchi les Appalaches. La naissance de l'industrie du disque et la multiplication des stations de radio mettent peu à peu fin à cet isolement géographique. Les communautés rurales du sud des Etats-Unis res tent toutefois...
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Country Music
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INTRODUCTION
Willie Nelson
Country singer and musician Willie Nelson gained national popularity during the 1970s for a string of country hits,
including the 1978 hits "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and "Georgia On My Mind.
Singer and mandolin player Bill Monroe is known as the father of bluegrass music. A virtuoso mandolin player, Monroe combined traditional folk ballads and gospel songswith string-band music played at very fast tempos. Monroe, with his band The Blue Grass Boys, performed from the mid-1920s until Monroe’s death in 1996. Otherwell-known bluegrass performers include banjo player Earl Scruggs, who played with Monroe during the 1940s; the Osborne Brothers, a duo from Kentucky known forits work during...
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Amerikanischer Film.
Frankenstein, 1975; Frankenstein Junior ). Der „New-Hollywood”-Bewegung, die sich Ende der sechziger Jahre gebildet hatte, um für größere gestalterische Freiheiten und weniger Abhängigkeit vom Kommerz zu kämpfen, waren Regisseure wie Dennis Hopper ( Easy Rider, 1969; Easy Rider ), Arthur Penn ( Bonnie and Clyde, 1967; Bonnie und Clyde ), Robert Altman ( Nashville, 1975; Nashville ), Peter Bogdanovich ( The Last Picture Show, 1971; Die letzte Vorstellung ), Francis Ford Coppola ( The Go...
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Millard Fillmore.
B Vice President of the United States During the first half of 1850, Fillmore as vice president presided over the United States Senate (the upper chamber of Congress) as angry debates raged betweenNorthern and Southern sectionalists over the status of slavery in the recently acquired lands. His fairness and sense of humor in the chair were not enough to restorepeace among the contending senators. The antislavery faction, led by Senator Seward (the former governor of New York) and Senator Salmon...
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Millard Fillmore
B Vice President of the United States During the first half of 1850, Fillmore as vice president presided over the United States Senate (the upper chamber of Congress) as angry debates raged betweenNorthern and Southern sectionalists over the status of slavery in the recently acquired lands. His fairness and sense of humor in the chair were not enough to restorepeace among the contending senators. The antislavery faction, led by Senator Seward (the former governor of New York) and Senator Salmon...
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negro-spiritual ou gospel-song.
le Louis and the Good Book , de Louis Armstrong, ou A Love Supreme , de John Coltrane. Les grands pionniers du rock noirs ou blancs (Elvis Presley comme Little Richard) ont été d'abord des interprètes de gospel-songs. La soul n'en est que la forme profane, pratiquée hors des églises par les chanteurs de negro-spirituals (Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Al Green...). En fait, toute la musique populaire postérieure aux années quarante dérive (autant que du blues individualiste des t...