Tag Archives: Ragtime

Books: Janee’s Canon

Music

Jazz has become a part of America like apple pie and baseball, but Court Carney’s Cuttin’ Up: How Jazz Got America’s Ear shows a period in time when Jazz wasn’t accepted. Carney describes how the original people who created Jazz had to be sucked out of the art form so that it could become popular. Jazz was a highly criticized music genre, due to its elements that combine other genres of music.  Carney performs CPR onto the art form by injecting the people and the history back into the shell of what popular Jazz became. Continue reading

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Bloomberg at Harlem Tree Lighting

Vy Higgensen’s MAMA Foundation for the Arts’ Gospel for

Teen’s to set off Lights of Hope Tree Lighting Ceremony in Harlem

Special Appearance from cast members from the Broadway hit musical Ragtime!

Time: Tomorrow! 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Thursday, December 17, 2009

Mayor Bloomberg will light the tree at 5:30 PM

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