The DJ About fifteen years ago a culture was born. In Europe a new type of music was being created. Something new, something fresh. A music fueled by throbbing beats over rattling bass. This is electronic music. The mastermind behind this whole up and coming culture was and is the DJ. In the past five years have become more and more popular everyday. Some people who are not aware of this music or this culture might argue that being a DJ is not a serious profession for various reasons. Throughout
hiphop and rap material and to mainstream, white-orientated popular music radio programming, which only featured a small number of Afro-American acts, many of whom had gained mainstream acceptance through exposure on the music video channel MTV. DJ Frankie Crocker is commonly regarded to have pioneered the approach through his work as music programmer for Manhattan-based radio station WLIB-FM, which commenced broadcasting in 1974. His early programming combined established R&B material with the burgeoning
Swing Music During the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties a certain style of music became very popular. This style of music became known as "swing". It was performed using rhythmic 'riffs' and is referred to a style of dance and band arrangements. America maintained swing's popularity throughout the World War Two years when both large and small ensembles toured Army and Navy camps both at home and abroad. At home, swing was heard at bond sale rallies and community concerts. The new sub-culture
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons were a group of boys who set out to make memorable music and change the industry. The Four Seasons were a soul part of the better changing music industry and society, because they appealed to their fans with their voices and fun lyrics. In their early and late careers as a band they were told they weren’t good enough to continue but The Four Seasons proved them wrong each time. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons were one of the
is, in the year 2000, topping the charts in France for ten straight weeks. The setting then moves to 1950’s New Jersey where a teenage Tommy, looking to start a band with some of his Jersey buddies, discovers an angelic-voiced 15 year old named Frankie Castellucio. Before long, they form an unsuccessful group with the help of another kid from their working-poor New Jersey neighborhood, Nick Massi. After consistently failing to gain traction, the trio decides they need a fourth member, and, after
Credibility is the amount of trust people have in you. For example, a student would have an English teacher read over his paper because he trusts that teacher to catch his mistakes and be able to help him correct them. Kelli White is a professional track athlete who has competed in World Championships. White shows why credibility is an important quality and how cheating affects it. Kelli White was born on April 1, 1977 in Oakland California to parents who were both sprinters. She attended high school
(It Began with a Hop to the Music: The History of Swing Dancing). Soon it became so popular that many well-known musicians became popular for their contribution to Swing, such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Herbert White and Frankie Manning, just to name a few. Dancing schools and teachers were teaching the dance. In the early in the 1940s, “as a result, the Arthur Murray Studios taught different styles of undocumented Swing in each city” (The History of Swing
(Georgian Index). Bare-knuckle boxing was a favorite amongst the Regency gentlemen and was more than a spectator sport, there was a large amount of betting, and many of the gently born participated. In the mid-1700s, Jack Broughton completed the first set of rules to be used at bouts in his club. Not counting cock fighting, these rules were the first applied to sporting events in modern history (GI). Regency violence was personified by 'the Fancy', followers of the bare-knuckle boxing championships
York and New Jersey House dj's will agree with me on this. They will acknowledged that fact that it was due to New York's, huge Disco club and music scene that helped to create the music of House and Garage and its culture within Chicago, Usa. Frankie Knuckles, the acknowledged "godfather" of Chicago house, got his start as a Dj via Manhattan, New York, Usa. Whilst there he was spinning Disco, Philly Soul records during the early 1970s with another legendary deejay figure, the late, great Larry Levan
here it goes... The controversy in “Who started Rave Music, U.K. or U.S.?” is going to forever live on. But in all actuality, the U.S. sparked the flame that started it all. It all started back in 1970, in Detroit and Chicago, when Djs, like Frankie Knuckles, would program drum rhythms and play disco records over the top of his beats. He would play this “music” in the “club environment”. In 1977, in Chicago, the first club, playing this “music”, opened and was called The Warehouse. This is where
Boxing in the early and mid-twentieth century had an appeal that captured the eyes and ears of millions of Americans. Championship fights and popular fighters were on national television and in newspaper headlines. At the time, boxing was relevant in the American sports world. However, over the past 30 years, boxing has regressed and lost its popularity. Spectacles like the graceful Muhammad Ali and the hard-hitting Mike Tyson are gone and have been replaced by lackluster fighters and greedy fight