“Tomorrow’s Radio Fare”
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A 10 page production plan for a new television show, “Tomorrow’s Radio Fare,” which will highlight neglected musicians and their music. The paper includes a description of the show; a plan for when it will air and against what shows it will be scheduled; and a script for a mock presentation and interview with the first featured artist, a guitarist from the United States. The program will be based in the UK and address British audiences first. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: KStvShow.rtf

“Youth culture and pop music”
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A fourteen page paper which looks at the relationship between youth culture and the development of music genres, and the way in which the development of particular genres is related to such elements as socio-economic issues and generational influences, especially with regard to the wider dissemination of information now available via the Internet. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: JLpopcult.wps

"Peony Pavilion" & Confucianism
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A 4 page research paper that analyzes the 400 year-old Chinese opera, The Peony Pavilion, in regards to how it reflects Confucianism. Also the writer discusses the music and style of this work. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khpeony.rtf

"Traditionalists and Revivalists in Jazz" by Chip Deffaa
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A 12 page book review which considers the book's chronicle of 14 important performers who are frequently overlooked in popular jazz texts. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: TGtrarev.wps

1791 and the Mozart Movie.
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(5 pp) What we shall be looking for in paper are the differences between the 1984 film Amadeus, directed by Peter Shafer, and 1791 - Mozart's Last Year by HC Robbins Landon (1999). As one begins to study Landon's scholarly, but readable book, we will begin to find many differences indeed. One might even wonder how the movie veered so far from the truth, but was such a great box office hit - obviously it was the music that did most of the work.
Filename: BBmozart.doc

19th Century Overtures
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A 10 page research paper that, first of all, defines the different types of overtures that were written in the 19th century and then looks at some representative work by Beethoven Mendelssohn and Wagner. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khovrtur.wps

2 Very Different Popular Songs
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A 4 page research paper that discusses 2 different popular songs. The term "popular music" encompasses a huge range of music, written for a variety of purposes for use by a broad range of performers and intended for an equally varied audience. At what might possibly be considered as opposed ends of the popular music spectrum are Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff," which incorporates Caribbean rhythms into a song that expresses the frustration of marginalized people against the often arbitrary power of authority, and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! from their 1943 musical. One song is an underground protest against authority; the other is a song meant to celebrate the mythos of mainstream culture. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khmarrh.rtf

9/11 Centennial
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A 3 page research paper that takes an usual form. Presumably, it is 2101 and there is a remembrance planned for commemorating the centennial anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001. An original musical composition has been commissioned for the occasion and this discussion offers a description that of that work. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: kh911mus.rtf

A Look at Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Gershwin Songbook
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This 6 page paper looks at the album first released in 1959. Some biographical information on Ella Fitzgerald is included. Jazz in the 1950s is discussed, and finally, an analysis of the album is provided. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: SA232Ela.rtf