A "swing note" or "shuffle note" is a performance practice, mainly in jazz-influenced music, in which some notes with equal written time values are performed with unequal durations, usually as alterna ...
Technically, "syncopation occurs when a temporary displacement of the regular metrical accent occurs, causing the emphasis to shift from a strong accent to a weak accent." "Syncopation is," however, ...
In some European art music, polyrhythm periodically contradicts the prevailing meter. For example, polyrhythm is heard in the first few minutes of Beethoven's Third Symphony and in the first movement ...
Improvisation in engineering is to solve a problem with the tools and materials immediately at hand. Examples of such improvisation was the re-engineering of carbon dioxide scrubbers with the material ...
The existence of the blue note within music ultimately derives from the fact that equal temperament in western diatonic harmony is an artifice or compromise originally used in the eighteenth century t ...
Main articles: Reconstruction era of the United States, Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era and Voting rights in the United StatesAfter the Civil War, the South was devastated in terms of po ...
Main article: Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War1st Maryland Regiment holding the line at the Battle of Guilford in North Carolina.With Virginia in the lead, the Southern colonies embr ...
From their earliest presence in North America, African Americans have contributed literature, art, agricultural skills, foods, clothing styles, music, language, social and technological innovation to ...
Almost 58% of African Americans lived in metropolitan areas in 2000. With over 2 million black residents, New York City had the largest black urban population in the United States in 2000, overall the ...
Main articles: Reconstruction Era of the United States and Jim Crow lawsJesse Owens shook racial stereotypes both with Nazis and segregationists in the USA at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.African American ...
The term alternative rock was coined in the early 1980s to describe rock artists who did not fit into the mainstream genres of the time. Bands dubbed "alternative" had no unified style, but were all s ...
Roots rock is the term now used to describe a move away from what some saw as the excesses of the psychedelic scene, to a more basic form of rock and roll that incorporated its original influences, pa ...
The sound of rock is traditionally centered on the electric guitar, which emerged in its modern form in the 1950s with the popularization of rock and roll. The sound of an electric guitar in rock musi ...
At the premiere of Pierre Schaeffer's Symphonie pour un homme seul in 1951, a system that was designed for the spatial control of sound was tested. It was called a "relief desk" (pupitre de relief, bu ...
In 1928 the music critic André C?uroy, wrote in the Panorama of Contemporary Music that "perhaps the time is not far off when a composer will be able to represent through recording, music specifical ...
